"I think that they were dismissive because i was a mam," she says of police officers. "They treated me very badly, and just like i told them, no, this is basic information." She had to read up on terminology in their reports; some things she didn't understand, she looked it up. 'As a mam, i had to take off my mam emotional robe and put on my investigative mo hat,' she says.
Shapearl Wells' son Courtney Copeland was fatally shot in 2016. He was 22 years old. Shapearl wanted answers to what had happened to her son in his final moments, but when she wasn't getting them, she decided to take matters into her own hands.
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