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Local Rallies Planned For Man Killed By Deputies In Elizabeth City

Protesters march along the streets to protest the shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. in Elizabeth City on April 28. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Two Triad cities are among eight locations where rallies are planned for Tuesday over the death of Andrew Brown Jr., who was shot to death by deputies in Elizabeth City in April.

The places where the rallies are scheduled stretch from Asheville to Elizabeth City, with Winston-Salem and Greensboro included.

They're being planned by Repairers of the Breach, the North Carolina Council of Churches, and an organization called B.R.I.D.G.E. The groups say they want more accountability in the case.

Protesters say that the unarmed Brown was unjustly killed while sheriff's deputies tried to serve drug-related warrants. 

A prosecutor has cleared the Pasquotank deputies, saying that Brown used his vehicle as a weapon. 

Marchers have been in the streets of Elizabeth City almost nightly since he was killed more than a month ago, and protesters in other North Carolina cities have also demanded justice in the case.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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