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Andrew Brown's Family Views Longer Video Footage Of Fatal Shooting

"What we saw on that video was an unjustified killing," family attorney Bakari Sellers told reporters on Tuesday in Elizabeth City, N.C., after seeing additional police body camera video.

After weeks of legal maneuvers, Andrew Brown Jr.'s family finally had the opportunity on Tuesday to see more of the last moments of the 42-year-old's life before he was shot and killed by sheriff's deputies in Elizabeth City, N.C., last month.

Questions about Brown's death have persisted since the Black man was shot and killed in his car by Pasquotank County sheriff's deputies as they

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