Renowned civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, who is representing Wade's family, and Rev. Al Sharpton are asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Wade's death and the Jackson police's handling of it, saying the police failed to notify the family.
NBC cited interviews with Wade's family members and documents obtained via public records requests, including a crash report, incident reports and coroner’s office records. The Jackson Police Department did not return a request for comment. A spokesperson for Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba told NBC News in an interview that this was a case of miscommunication but the police had "no malicious intent."
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