Article 5H2JF Andrew Brown shooting: anger as family shown only ‘snippet’ of police footage

Andrew Brown shooting: anger as family shown only ‘snippet’ of police footage

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  • Lawyers say police trying to hide truth of Brown's death
  • Brown, 42, killed by officers in North Carolina last week

Lawyers representing the family of Andrew Brown, a Black man shot and killed by police in North Carolina last week, accused authorities of hiding" video evidence of an execution" on Monday after relatives were shown only a 20-second clip of the incident from a single officer's body camera.

Anger boiled over at an afternoon press conference in which they said the snippet they were permitted to view showed Brown, 42, with his hands on the steering wheel of the car he was driving when he was shot dead in a hail of police bullets. One of the lawyers, Harry Daniels, said Brown was shot in the back of the head.

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