nazarethman/Getty Images(JACKSON, Miss.) The family of Dexter Wade held a funeral on Monday afternoon for the 37-year-old man who was fatally struck by an off-duty police officer in Jackson, Mississippi, on March 5 and was buried in a potter’s field for more than five months before authorities notified his family.
The Rev. Al Sharpton delivered the eulogy for Wade a father of two while family attorney Ben Crump will continue to call on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the Jackson Police Department in the wake of Wade’s death.
"I wanted to come for two reasons, Ms. Wade," Sharpton said, addressing Dexter Wade s mother, Bettersten Wade Robinson. "I wanted to give words of comfort to the family, but I wanted to give words of discomfort to the state of Mississippi."
"What happened to Dexter is a disgrace, a national outrage and should be treated as such," he added. ". His life mattered to his mama, to his daughters and we re gonn
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