Rally for Tyrone Mason held in downtown Raleigh

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A rally was held today for Tyrone Mason in downtown Raleigh.

The calls for accountability were echoed throughout the rally.

Tyrone Mason 's mom, community activists and civil rights attorneys Ben Crump and Bakari Sellers spoke.

Mason's family has already filed a lawsuit against the state troopers involved in this investigation and now their attorney plans to add a Raleigh police officer to the suit in the coming days.

"I'm very upset. Miss Freeman, you told me to my face you was on my side. You told me you were on my side. But now you're on the side of state troopers. The men that lie. And if they did it to my baby. Well, well, well, well. Well, then why? We call for justice for my baby. And we're never gonna stop until we get justice," said Henrietta Mason.

It comes just days after law enforcement released body and dash cam video that showed a state trooper lying about the moments leading up to Mason's deadly crash on Capital Boulevard last October.

The rally will take place outside the Wake County Courthouse.

High-profile civil rights attorneys, Ben Crump and Bakari Sellers, will be there along with local activists.

The videos sparked a state investigation into Trooper Garret Macario and his supervisor Matthew Morrison.

Video shows Morrison on the phone and you hear him telling Macario to not say he was pursing Mason.

WATCH | Raw Video from deadly October 2024 Tyrone Mason crash

Two NC State Highway Patrol troopers are under investigation for what was said to Raleigh Police officers at a deadly crash scene on October 7, 2024.

Wake County District Attorney, Lorrin Freeman said Macario's false and misleading information led to her office dismissing 180 cases.

She did not press charges against the trooper.