In Baltimore, Aldrick Hamilton—a 32-year-old Black man—appears in the kind of public record that can feel both brutally direct and painfully incomplete: an entry that classifies his death as a murder under the Baltimore Police Department’s jurisdiction. In the information provided, he is described not with the fullness of a life, but with the minimal facts that remain when a person is reduced to a case file: a name attached to a homicide listing, a loss that is real even when the details a
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