Jerry Denman

Jerry Denman, a 41-year-old Black man from Detroit, was known around the city’s east side by the nickname “Doug,” a familiar face in the neighborhood where he’d grown up. In the weeks and months before his death, his family said he had been living without stable housing while also struggling with serious mental-health issues—something that could make him seem unpredictable to strangers, even as the people who loved him insisted he was not a threat and didn’t deserve the fear or frust ...

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