Jason Cole, a 42-year-old Black man, died on July 29, 2013, in Detroit, Michigan. In the way so many killings in big cities arrive in the public record, what survives most clearly is the hard outline of a date, a place, and a name—enough to mark the loss, but not enough to explain it.
Across publicly available reporting and records that can be reached without specialized access, the circumstances surrounding his death are thin and fragmented. Accounts that do exist do not consistently p
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