Charles McDonald, a 19-year-old African-American man from Detroit, Michigan, is remembered in the public record more as an absence than as a fully told story. His name stands for a young life that did not get the careful documentation and sustained attention that attaches to more widely reported crimes. Instead of a clear timeline of events, a list of injuries, or a precise description of where and how he was killed, what survives in accessible sources is the stark fact that he died at an age wh
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