Donald Coates, a 37-year-old Black man from Detroit, Michigan, died under circumstances that remain difficult to reconstruct from publicly accessible reporting. His name appears in online discussions and databases that speak broadly about violence and loss, but the kind of clear, case-specific narrative that usually follows a death—what happened first, who was there, what was said, which agency took the lead—does not surface in a way that can be verified through widely available public sourc
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