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Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, who died when he was choked by police in New York in 2014 while he pleaded “I can’t breathe”, just spoke at the press conference in North Carolina called by attorneys and relatives of Andrew Brown, who was shot dead there by police last week.
“They never intended to take him alive,” she said of the way police in Elizabeth City, NC, approached Brown, 42, last week before he was shot dead.
Andrew Brown’s son, Khalil Ferebee, just told those gathered for a press conference in North Carolina that he believed his statement yesterday that his father had been “executed” by the police was confirmed by the evidence that brown died from a shot to the back of the head.
“Violence is not the key,” he told the crowd gathered in Elizabeth City.
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Five penetrating bullet wounds including a “kill shot” to the back of the head. That’s the autopsy result being read by the attorneys for Andrew Brown’s family now. They note four non-fatal bullet wounds to Brown’s right arm, followed by a fatal shot to the head.
