To stream 11Alive on your phone, you need the 11Alive app. Example video title will go here for this video Example video title will go here for this video ATLANTA — A family’s $1 billion lawsuit against law enforcement and local agencies involved in the 2013 south Georgia death of Kendrick Johnson has been dismissed on various grounds, though a federal judge acknowledged “concern about the inconsistencies” in the case that linger more than a dozen years later. The Johnson family has already filed notice of appeal, court records show, and in a statement issued Thursday assailed the dismissal as “unprecedented and unconstitutional.” Kendrick was 17 at the time he was found dead at Lowndes High School in 2013 inside a rolled gym mat. His family has raised questions about his death — officially ruled an accident that occurred as he reached for a pair of shoes inside the mat, falling in and suffocating — for years. The case has long garnered widespread attention as the family insisted foul play was involved and accused agencies, from the GBI to area investigative authorities in Valdosta to the local school district, of a cover-up. Among the most salient issues, U.S. District Judge Sarah
