Somebody: Official Trailer

When Shapearl Wells's son Courtney is found outside a Chicago police station with a fatal bullet wound, Shapearl immediately distrusts the official narrative. So she launches her own investigation into her son’s murder and teams up with journalists from the Invisible Institute to confront the cops and find the truth about Courtney's death. Somebody explores the racial disparities and turbulent relationship between law enforcement and citizens in one of America’s largest cities. A co-production of the Invisible Institute, The Intercept, Topic Studios, and iHeartRadio, in association with Tenderfoot TV.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are the average black family trying to fight against
a huge city, and everywhere we turn, we're here the
doors getting slammed in our face. My name is chakraral Wells.
They want you to stop fighting, They want you to

(00:21):
give up. They want you just to accept that your
child is dead and just move on. I can't, can't
do it. This is the story of my son, Courtney.
You know my name is Corney Copeman. Two fifteen is
the biggest here of my life. He was a good child.
He loved his family. He was a ladies man, even

(00:43):
with his auntie and his grandmother. He got that smile
with his dead folds. I just remember thinking to myself,
like where does he get all this energy from? I
chance to wrap her. Courtney Copelan was a good friend
of mine. In he wound up with a bullet in
his back outside of Chicago police station. Who ever did

(01:10):
this to us? Soun as, did you turn yourself in?
As this you ask for forgiveness from God? And it's
the story of my search for the truth. So we
would with the flyers and we were on the radio.
If anybody that can help us get answered. You want

(01:31):
to know what you are did you see anybody running?
How many shots? None of that stuff was asked along
the way. I teamed up with journalists and we took
this case to a whole new level. Okay, so you
heard two shots fired on the block. I was working
in the emergency room and I remember him specifically being

(01:53):
handcuffed to the bed. What do you do with this information?
None of this expense to me as wherever God not
have been makes sense. This is a podcast about trust
and the police. There was a rhyme I heard back
in high school. You were put here to protect us,

(02:15):
But who protects us from you? This is Somebody, a
co production of the Invisible Institute, the Inter South and
Topic Studios in association with Tenderfoot TV. Everybody the songbodes
every day. This is somebody's child. Somebody deserves to know

(02:37):
what happened. I deserve to know what happened to my
son coming soon March one,