Attorneys for the family of Jabari Peoples, an Alabama teen fatally shot by police, have dropped their Rule 27 petition against the city of Homewood.

A Rule 27 petition seeks to preserve critical evidence and identify parties as the family considers a potential wrongful death and civil rights lawsuit.

The petition also asked the court to compel Homewood to disclose body-cam footage, incident reports, use-of-force documentation and the names of all officers involved.

The attorneys for People’s family on Thursday viewed bodycam footage sent to Jefferson County Presiding Judge Elisabeth French by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.

After seeing the footage, attorneys requested the petition be dismissed and French granted that request.

Attorneys have previously said they were concerned that the video was altered or they were only shown a portion of the footage.

Peoples’ attorney Leroy Maxwell said the video they were shown Thursday is the same they had previously viewed.

“The Rule 27 petition worked,” Peoples’ attorney Leroy Maxwell said following Thursday’s hearing. “We were able to view and preserve footage.”

“We asked the court to dismiss the petition so we can now focus on preparing a federal lawsuit,” Maxwell said.

Jefferson County District Attorney Danny Carr responded to Thursday’s dismissal of the petition.

“As the district attorney of Jefferson County, I pride myself on transparency and honesty and truth,” Carr said. “From the beginning, I’ve always kept my word in the role as DA.”

“I showed the family the video that was provided to us,” Carr said. “It’s clear today that video had not been altered, that nothing underhanded had been done and I think it’s important that the public knows that.”

“We don’t know what’s on the video, good or bad, but it needs to be seen,” Maxwell previously said. “The family deserves the truth. And the community deserves accountability.”

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Civil rights attorney Ben Crump on the day Carr showed the family the video and ruled the fatal shooting justified said the family and attorneys were shown a “short clip of an ALEA edited video” of the shooting. “We want full transparency,” Crump said.

The video shown the family was about four minutes long, with about a minute of it capturing the interaction between Peoples and the officers, Crump said at that time.

Crump said the video they saw showed that Peoples was shot in the back while running away and that he never pointed anything at an officer.

“There was more to this interaction than what was provided,” Crump said. “This is not an open and shut case.”

Carr has maintained the footage matched the series of events described by Homewood police immediately following the shooting.

“I think a good kid made a terrible decision that cost him his life,” Carr previously told AL.com. “It’s sad for everyone involved but the facts and the law dictated the decision that was made, not emotions,” Carr said.

Carr said the video showed the officer pulling into the park.

The district attorney said it is his understanding there had been reports of possible criminal activity taking place in the city’s parks.

“Jabari Peoples was on the driver’s side and a young lady was on the passenger’s side,” Carr said.

The officer approached the vehicle and told them to roll down the window. The officer’s name has not been released but officials have confirmed he is a Black man.

“He could smell marijuana,” Carr said.

“He asked if there was marijuana in the car and the young lady said yes and gave him a jar that contained marijuana.”

The officer then got them to get out of the car.

“When Jabari opened his door, (the officer) could see a weapon in there,” Carr said.

“He moved Jabari back for officer safety and was going to put the cuffs on him, and then Jabari started to struggle with him.”

“A struggle ensued, and they fell to the ground,” the district attorney said. “He was on top of the officer.”

“At some point, he broke away and ran back toward the car,” Carr said.

“He reached into the driver’s side, grabbed a gun and the officer shot him.”

Peoples, who was holding the gun in his right hand, was shot one time in the lower left side of his back, Carr said. The officer fired only one shot, Carr added.

Carr said as district attorney it has always been his promise to provide facts and truth to all families who lose a loved one in an officer-involved shooting.

“Sometimes it may not end the way they want it to, but at least they’re armed with the facts and truth,” he said. “In this case we did just that.”

“I want to urge people to wait for the facts and the truth,” Carr said, “before you form an opinion.”

Peoples was a 2024 graduate of Aliceville High School where he was standout track athlete and football player.

Peoples had just finished his freshman year at Alabama A&M where he was studying computer information and criminal justice with hopes of becoming a law enforcement officer, specifically a detective.

The shooting and refusal by ALEA to release the footage has sparked a series of protests by Black Lives Matter and other community activists, including some which led to arrests.