It works all right as long as you take the time to do what's necessary to clean up the hydrobromide salt without going through the freebase stage. The bromination creates a whole lot of very dark by-products.
Suggested procedure: https://www.thevespiary.org/rhodium/Rhodium/chemistry/2cb.bromination.html (https://www.thevespiary.org/rhodium/Rhodium/chemistry/2cb.bromination.html)