Paul Free was a 42-year-old African American man from Detroit, Michigan, and on January 24, 2014, his life came to an end. A date like that can look simple on paper, just numbers in a row, but it carries the weight of a day that changed everything for the people who knew him. One moment he was still part of the city’s living rhythm—somewhere under that winter sky, surrounded by the ordinary sounds of a neighborhood, the familiar routines, the unspoken plans for what would come next. And then
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