April 26 (UPI) -- Bodycam video of the police-involved death of a Black North Carolina man shows he was shot to death while his hands were on the steering wheel of his car, family members said Monday.
The family of Andrew Brown Jr., 42, of Elizabeth City, N.C., told reporters that a 20-second snippet of body-camera footage they were allowed to see appeared to show Brown was not posing a threat to Pasquotank County sheriff's deputies before he was shot to death Wednesday while sitting in a car in his driveway.
"Andrew had his hands on his steering wheel," family attorney Chantel Cherry-Lassiter said during a press briefing outside the sheriff's office. "He was not reaching for anything, he wasn't touching anything."
Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten and Chief Deputy Daniel Fogg said in a video statement issued the day after the shooting that deputies were attempting to serve him with an arrest warrant for felony drug charges.
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