More than a month after Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the Hoover police officer who fatally shot Emantic “E.J.” Bradford Jr. wouldn’t face charges, the Bradford family sued the AG and Hoover Police Department.

The lawsuit was filed in the Birmingham division of Jefferson County on Monday by Bradford’s parents and their attorney Benjamin Crump, the ACLU of Alabama, and the Alabama NAACP. According to the lawsuit, the family is demanding release of all police body camera and surveillance footage of the incident, and of documents including the officers’ names.

Bradford was fatally shot by a Hoover police officer after shots rang out in the Riverchase Galleria mall on Thanksgiving night. Brian Wilson, 18, and a 12-year-old bystander were injured in the incident, and police who responded shot 21-year-old Bradford. The day after the shooting, police said Bradford was likely not the person who fired the shots that injured the other two.

Representatives from Marshall’s office met with the Bradford family and their attorney in February and told them the Hoover officer was justified in the shooting and he would not be criminally charged. Marshall also shared a report with information from the more than two-month investigation.

Hoover police have not released the officer’s name and his attorney told AL.com neither he nor the officer will be releasing any statement about the shooting.

Marshall’s options were to clear the officer, charge the officer, or send the case to a grand jury for indictment consideration. The investigation was led by the State Bureau of Investigation and involved witness reports, cell phone videos taken by shoppers, mall surveillance video, body cam video, text messages, and social media posts.

According to the lawsuit, Marshall responded to the public records request saying he would not turn over the information requested. A press release by the ACLU said Marshall “asserted, among other reasons, that disclosing any information would ‘negatively impact…the personal safety of law enforcement officials.’”

The lawsuit said Hoover police also declined to make those records public.

The lawsuit claims: “After the officer shot Mr. Bradford, he and one or more other officers approached Mr. Bradford’s body. At or near Mr. Bradford’s body, two or more officers then made a fist-bump gesture. On information and belief, they did not attempt to render first aid to Mr. Bradford before making this celebratory gesture.”

The complaint also states, “In the wake of the police killing of E.J. Bradford, which has amplified the fear and mistrust that many black and brown Alabamians feel toward the police, such transparency and accountability is especially important.”

Crump said in a press release, “It’s ludicrous and insulting that the state of Alabama thinks we should simply take their word about what happened, without letting us see the full and unedited video footage and without releasing the officer’s name…In a state with the racial history of Alabama, why would anyone believe their account of a white officer shooting a Black man, especially when they’re trying to hide some of the evidence?”

ACLU of Alabama Executive Director Randall Marshall said Bradford’s family and the people of Alabama “deserve transparency and accountability.” He said in the same release, “It’s repugnant that Attorney General Marshall is hiding behind unfounded claims that transparency would endanger law enforcement when refusing to disclose the footage and documents we requested.”

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Alabama NAACP President Benard Simelton said the group is “very disappointed” the Attorney General Marshall handled the case instead of Jefferson County District Attorney Danny Carr.

The groups jointly filed a Public Records Request for information on “implicit bias policies and training, use-of-force policies and training, and guidelines for active shooter situations.” The ACLU press release said Hoover police has agreed to release that information.

Specifically, the lawsuit asks for the court to deem the information requested as subject to public records laws, order that information available to the plaintiffs, waive all fees associated with the requests, and award the plaintiffs’ legal fees.

The state has not responded to the lawsuit, according to court filings, and no court hearings have been set.