But what happened in those moments the evening of June 23 is disputed: Officials say Peoples grabbed a gun from his car door during a scuffle with the officer; his family says he was unarmed.
Now, Peoples’s relatives are in a weeks-long standoff with law enforcement over its refusal to release the body-camera recording of the deadly encounter — a battle that centers on a police transparency law sponsored by a Democratic state lawmaker in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests two years ago. The battle has sparked protests and petitions, along with fiercely worded accusations from a civil rights lawyer who says the law’s sponsor, state Rep. Juandalynn G
