Thread by @Billy_K_Ball

.@RevDrTASpearman speaking right now, calls for @JoshStein_ to investigate "obvious coverup" in #ElizabethCityNC case of #AndrewBrownJr . @CardinalAndPine #ncpol #BlackLivesMatter

"We are here today because we know what we're up against," Spearman says, criticizing local district attorney Andy Womble in #pasquotank county. #ncpol #BlackLivesMatter #AndrewBrownJr @CardinalAndPine

Jennifer Copeland of @ncchurches: "We can no longer stand on the sidelines and watch. We must be with our Black neighbors. ... We must be with them in dismantling racism."

.@RevDrBarber calls local District Attorney Andy Womble "inept and incompetent." Criticizes handling of #AndrewBrownJr case in #ElizabethCityNC . #ncpol #BlackLivesMatter

.@RevDrBarber: "Accountability must mean arrest. That's what they would do to me if I shot someone today." #AndrewBrownJr #BlackLivesMatter #ncpol #ElizabethCityNC

.@RevDrBarber says needs to be federal guarantee of prosecution of local prosecutors "don't work." #ncpol #BlackLivesMatter #AndrewBrownJr #ElizabethCityNC

.@RevDrBarber: "Too long has it been that you can shot in the back or in the front for air fresheners." #ncpol #BlackLivesMatter #ElizabethCityNC #AndrewBrownJr

.@RevDrBarber: "When you kill one of us wrongfully, you may kill one of us, but we rise in their name." Calls on watchers to "say his name." "Andrew Brown Jr!" they reply. #ncpol #AndrewBrownJr #BlackLivesMatter #ElizabethCityNC

.@RevDrBarber reasserts that local prosecutors in DA Andy Womble's office are "inept, incompetent, and incapable." #ncpol #BlackLivesMatter #andrewbrownjr #ElizabethCityNC

.@RevDrBarber: "It took them 120 hours to get (Brown's family) a 20-second snippet." #ncpol #BlackLivesMatter #andrewbrownjr #ElizabethCityNC

.@RevDrBarber points out diversity of folks watching in #ElizabethCityNC, calls it the "newness of the South." #ncpol #BlackLivesMatter #andrewbrownjr

.@RevDrBarber: "The South is going to rise, but it is not going to rise like it used to." #ncpol #BlackLivesMatter #AndrewBrownJr #ElizabethCityNC

#AndrewBrownJr family attorney Harry Daniels now addressing the media. #ncpol #BlackLivesMatter #ElizabethCityNC

Daniels: Said footage shows law enforcement got out of their trucks shooting at #andrewbrownjr in #ElizabethCityNC. #ncpol #BlackLivesMatter

.@RevDrBarber declares #andrewbrownjr case a "moral emergency, a justice emergency." #ncpol #BlackLivesMatter #ElizabethCityNC