The City of Homewood is asking for the petition filed by Jabari Peoples’ family seeking release of video in his June 23 shooting death to be dismissed.
Attorneys for the city on Friday filed a response in Jefferson County Court to the petition last week by attorney Leroy Maxwell on behalf of Peoples’ mother, Vivian Sterling, and other family members of the slain 18-year-old.
The petition seeks to preserve critical evidence and identify parties as the family considers a potential wrongful death and civil rights lawsuit…