Lawsuit offers radical new narrative for the police shooting death of Brandon Webber
Secrecy continues to surround use-of-force case that stirred unrest last year
Police retreat June 12, 2019, under a cloud of tear gas as protesters disperse from the scene of a standoff after Frayser residents took to the streets in anger against the shooting a youth identified by family members as Brandon Webber by U.S. Marshals earlier in the evening. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Marc Perrusquia
Marc Perrusquia is the director of the Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis, where graduate students learn investigative and explanatory journalism skills working alongside professionals. He's won numerous state and national awards for government watchdog, social justice and political reporting. Follow the Institute on Facebook or Twitter @psr_memphis.
A wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Brandon Webber offers a radically different narrative for his officer-involved shooting that stirred wide unrest in Memphis over police use of force.
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