The governor of Alabama, Kay Ivey, is supporting the refusal of a state agency to release images of the body of the body in the fatal police shooting of a first -year student of the 18 -year -old black university, saying that the case must first be thoroughly investigated.
Ivey said he trusted that “the facts will prevail” when the Alabama law agency completes its investigation into the June 23 shooting of the Jabari peoples by an officer of the Homewood Police Department.
“This case [is] A priority, and I am sure they are working to do it efficiently, ”said Ivey in a statement on Wednesday to the NBC WVTM 13 affiliate in Birmingham.
The villages, an aspiring police detective, were killed in a football complex where he was sitting in his car parked with his girlfriend. An officer approached his car around 9:30 pm because he said he smelled what looked like marijuana.
People’s girlfriend, whose name has not been released, has denied that he had a weapon, said the Ben Crump family lawyer.
The officer, who has not been publicly identified, shot the villages after he said that the peoples reached a weapon in the pocket of the door of his car, according to the police department.
Peoples was shot in the back, but there was no exit wound on his body and the bullet was not found inside him, according to an autopsy performed by an independent coroner hired by his family.
An autopsy carried out by the Jefferson County Forensic Office has not been released at the request of the State Agency for the Application of the Law.
The video of the body of the officer who documes the shooting has become crucial evidence as the family and the girlfriend of the people dispute the version of the events of the department. The family, local leaders and many Woodwood residents require that the Alabama La Libere law application agency.
State representative Kelvin Datcher, a Democrat who represents Homewood, said that the retention of the video undermines public trust in the application of the law and tarnishes the integrity of the case.
“The objective of having images of the body chamber is to guarantee transparency for the community,” he said Thursday. “There is an urgency for the family to take a look at that video.”
The protesters presented themselves to the meeting of the City Council of Homewood this week asking for the release of the video and threatening to boycott local companies, with the idea that economic pressure could force leaders to change their position.
“We will organize the sitting, we will celebrate centers and vigils through the city center at the door of their businesses,” said Reverend Wayne Harris to the Council, according to WVTM. “Your trade will feel our pain, and we will close Homewood for Justice.”
