Aaron Cole, 28, was a Black man who died in Detroit, Michigan on September 1, 2017, leaving behind a case that—at least in the public record most easily accessible today—reads more like a shadow than a fully told story. The death is tied to a homicide event recorded in Detroit’s publicly released police-data systems, but those public-facing records focus on incident markers like date, time, precinct, report number, and a generalized block address—not the victim’s identity or narrative
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