The incident occurred during the near-daily protests in Elizabeth City over the shooting of Andrew Brown Jr., protest leader Kirk Rivers told CNN. The case — including a prosecutor’s decision not to charge the deputies involved — has raised already intense national debate over how police treat people of color. Elizabeth City police responded to Monday’s incident around 6:45 p.m. ET, according to a news release. “A motorist struck two pedestrians who were peacefully protesting and exercising their constitutional rights,”