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Tate-Brown's family to view more police evidence

Tanya Brown-Dickerson has been invited today by the Philadelphia Police Department to review more evidence in connection with the fatal police-involved shooting of her son, Brandon Tate-Brown.

Tanya Brown-Dickerson will head today to the Internal Affairs Division's Northeast Philadelphia headquarters to review more evidence in connection with the fatal police-involved shooting of her son, Brandon Tate-Brown.

Her attorney, Brian Mildenberg, said in an emailed statement that he and Brown-Dickerson have been invited by Deputy Commissioner Denise Turpin to review the evidence.

The move comes a week after the Police Department allowed Brown-Dickerson and Mildenberg to review surveillance footage of the fatal encounter that unfolded in Mayfair on Dec. 15 after two patrol cops pulled Tate-Brown over for driving without his lights on.

The department has said Tate-Brown was shot after he fought with the officers and reached into his car for a handgun, but that account has been disputed by Mildenberg and Brown-Dickerson, based on what they say are inconsistencies that have been discovered.

Mildenberg said today that a toxicology report shows Tate-Brown did not have any drugs in his system when he was shot.

He again called on the department to release all of its evidence to the public.

"Piecemeal, controlled release of evidence by the police department, and only in response to public uproar about police secrecy and inconsistencies in police accounts of the shooting, does little to restore faith or provide transparency," read part of his statement.