"Family Demands DOJ Investigation into Police Cruiser Fatality and Secret Burial"

The family of Dexter Wade, a man who was fatally struck by a Jackson Police Department cruiser in Mississippi, is demanding an independent autopsy and an investigation by the Department of Justice after they were not notified of his death until six months later, when he had already been buried in a "pauper field." The police claim there was no ill-intent in the delay and cited outdated contact information as the reason for the failure to notify the family. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, representing the Wade family, plans to file a petition to have Wade's body exhumed for an independent autopsy and a proper funeral and burial.