that coming from sheriff tommy wooten. three deputies who did the shooting, they will get their jobs back and will be retrained according to the sheriff. the sheriff said that there were things that they should have done better and he's outlining those things. he says two of the deputies on the scene did not turn on their body cameras, that they should have. they should have had ems teams ready for injuries that occurred there and those teams were not ready. this, of course, coming hours after the district attorney andrew wonble said that this shooting death was justified. he said that his conclusion was that brown posed a threat to the deputies involved, that they had a reasonable feeling at the time that their lives were in danger. here's what andrew womble had to say this afternoon. >> when you employ a car in a manner that puts officers' lives in danger, that is a threat, and i don't care what direct you're going, forward, backward, s sideways. i don't care if you're stationary and neither do our courts. >> a short tim

sheriff tommy wooten and i jointly requested a thorough investigation of the shooting. shortly after speaking with special agent rogers, i contacted district attorney investigator john young to meet me at our office here in elizabeth city and to proceed with me to the scene of the incident. we viewed the scene and later that day i met with sheriff wooten, special agent rogers, members of the sbi team that would conduct the investigation. on may 11, 2021, the sbi lead case agent jason godfrey began releasing the report gathered to the district attorney's office. i immediately began review of the written sbi reports and other documents as investigated by the sbi. i reviewed the sbi investigation which included interviews of the deputies involved with the pasquotank county sheriff's office, interviews of civilian witnesses, interviews of dr. karen l. kelly, a forensic pathologist in greenville, photographs of the scene, ballistics and trajectory report, analysis of weapons and shell casings, the law enforcement records of the deputies involved, video footage of the body ca

they were greeted personally at the door by the district attorney, andrew wombel and the sheriff, tommy wooten were joined by their attorneys. one of andrew brown jr.'s aunt, glenda brown, talked about the fact that the family would only be able to view less than 20 minutes of the videotape. here's what she had to say over the weekend. >> we need to see the body cam. 20 seconds, not enough. 20 minutes, not enough. we want to see the whole tape. >> and just a short time ago as the family and attorneys went into the building, my colleague jason carroll and i had a chance to ask them a couple of questions. they said they do not expect there to be a time limit for how long they can view this videotape. i asked attorney bakari sellers what he expects to see, and he said we expect to see an unjustified shooting. >> brian todd, thank you. >>> just ahead, today is the first day that children 12 to 15 can get a covid vaccine after the fda authorized those shots. oh! don't burn down the duplex. terminix. ♪ ♪ i want to see you stand up ♪ ♪ i want to feel you be proud ♪ ♪ i want to hear your beating heart

a short time ago, the sheriff tommy wooten announced the deputies will keep their jobs, but they'll beed. >> let's bring in cnn legal analyst joey jackson and cnn law enforcement analyst charles ramsey. based on what you've seen, do you agree this was justified? >> i'm troubled. let me tell you why. based upon what i saw and with permission not to mince words, i think it was an arrogant press conference, it was tone deaf, it was certainly not empathetic to the family. all that aside, let me tell you what my concerns are. number one, you have a sitting district attorney who depends upon the police department to investigate and prosecute cases who now is attempting to try to say that you're objectively evaluating the police's conduct at issue here. to me, that's problematic. therefore, i think you need independence if you're going to have any semblance of an investigation. with respect to number two, i think you can't cherry pick facts that support you and choose to ignore or spin facts that don't. for example, you indicate the car is a dangerous weapon, but yet you dismiss a question wi

i shared this information with tommy wooten and rogers no over will be criminally charged. the actions were consistent with the training and fully supported under the law in protecting their lives and this community. confrontations between police and citizens in which deadly force is used are among the most important cases the district attorney's office will ever handle. my prosecutors and i have a duty to objectively analyze the totality of the evidence and circumstances and that means we must face difficult issues which have been discussed at length in this report. it is my sincere prayer that no one is ever killed by law enforcement. but i also pray that law enforcement are never placed in the position of having to make the decision to use lethal force to protect themselves or innocent lives around them. i want our community to understand that this office put significant effort into ensuring this decision was based on the facts, the evidence, and the law and not on public opinion. in describing the legal analysis and basis for the does igs in this case, i find myself unf

in a statement sheriff tommy wooten said this, quote, after reviewing the preliminary conclusions ofators conducting the internal review and after carefully examining the body camera footage with my own staff it's obvious four of the deputies never fired their weapons and deserve to be reinstated to active duty. more investigation is necessary into the three deputies who did fire their weapons and they will remain on administrative leave pending completion of the internal investigation and/or the criminal investigation being conducted by the state bureau of investigation. the three deputies who fired shots, according to the sheriff and remain on leave, are investigative daniel meeds, robert morgan and corporal aaron luellen. meads has been with the sheriff's department 5.5 years. morgan 5 years and luellen just over 2. city officials relaxed the curfew moving it from 8:00 p.m. to mid night. despite public outcry, the body camera footage of brown's death is not going to be released to the public any time soon. a judge denied a petition filed by media outlets to have the video released