Reginald Hamilton, a 35-year-old Black man from North Charleston, South Carolina, spent the final hours of his life in the shadow of the Economy Inn on Rivers Avenue, a modest roadside motel along one of the city’s busiest corridors. In the early moments of October 20, 2021, the usual hum of late-night traffic was broken by the sharp cracks of gunfire. Around 1 a.m., North Charleston police officers were dispatched to the motel after a call reporting shots fired. When they arrived, they found
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