US judge: no immediate release of video of Andrew Brown shooting
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North Carolina judge rules against media and sheriff requests to make body camera video public.
The body camera video that shows the shooting of Andrew Brown Jr by police will not immediately be made public, a judge in the US state of North Carolina has ruled, but said Brown’s son could view it. Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten and roughly 20 media organisations had filed petitions to release the video of the attempted arrest and fatal shooting by sheriff’s deputies on April 21, arguing disclosure was in the public interest. At Wednesday’s court hearing, District Attorney Andrew Womble argued against immediate release, saying it could jeopardise an ongoing State Bureau of Investigation probe. He said there were four body camera videos of the shooting.
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