Michael A Craig

Death by Force

Just after dawn on October 4, 2021, in a second-floor apartment on the 7700 block of South Carpenter Street in Chicago's Gresham neighborhood, Michael A. Craig,a 61-year-old Black male, called 911 and pleaded for help, saying his wife had a knife pressed to his throat.

In the same breath, Micheal told his young son to open the door for the police, while a neighbor, alerted by the child, also called for assistance.

The sequence that followed was preserved in recordings and later p ...Read More

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