US EditionAlabama Gov. Kay Ivey Speaks on Jabari Peoples Case Amid Demands for Footage of Fatal Police Shooting to Be Released
HOMEWOOD, ALABAMA, JUL 15 – An independent autopsy showed Jabari Peoples was shot in the back with no exit wound, intensifying calls by his family and attorney Ben Crump for bodycam footage release.
- An 18-year-old named Jabari Peoples died from gunshot wounds inflicted by a Homewood police officer on June 23 during an incident at a soccer park in a well-to-do suburb of Birmingham.
- The shooting occurred after an officer, having detected the smell of marijuana, instructed Peoples to exit the vehicle; police claim the teen attempted to grab a weapon during a struggle, though his family and a friend maintain he was unarmed.
- A private autopsy commissioned by the Peoples family concluded that Jabari was shot in the lower back with no exit wound, intensifying demands for the police to release the unreleased bodycam recordings currently controlled by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.
- Attorney Eric Hertz highlighted that the bullet’s path was straight with no exit wound or bullet found inside Peoples’ body, while civil rights lawyer Ben Crump stressed that although the gunshot to the back is significant, the full circumstances can only be understood once the video evidence is released.
- The family has initiated legal action to force the release of the body camera footage, with a hearing scheduled for August 4, while officials reference a 2023 law permitting withholding of such recordings if an active investigation could be impacted.
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Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey speaks on Jabari Peoples case amid demands for footage of fatal police shooting to be released
HOMEWOOD, Ala. (WIAT) -- Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has weighed in on the case surrounding an 18-year-old man who was killed during an interaction with a police officer in Homewood, as well as the community's growing demand for the officer's body camera footage of the shooting to be released. Peoples died June 22 at UAB Hospital, less than an hour after being shot in the back by an officer with the Homewood Police Department during an interaction…
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Lawyer says an Alabama teen who was killed by police was shot in the back
Independent autopsy leaves unanswered questions about Jabari Peoples’ death, lawyers say: ‘We need the bullet’
An independent autopsy commissioned by the family of Jabari Peoples showed the slain teen was shot in the lower back, slightly above his buttocks, attorneys said Tuesday.
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