On January 27, 1973, a brief street encounter in New York City turned into a fatal moment that would leave more questions than closure. Rita Lloyd was in public with a friend when police stopped them, and within moments gunfire ended her life.
Lloyd was a 16-year-old Black girl. Accounts of what happened next hinge on two competing versions of the same instant: a plainclothes New York City police officer, identified in later retellings as Robert Milano, said the teenagers aimed a sawed-o
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