In the predawn hours of a mid-October morning in 1971, a 17-year-old African American teenager named Elton Hayes was a passenger in a truck being driven by his friend through the streets of Memphis, Tennessee. A high-speed chase with law enforcement officers shattered the quiet of the morning and set in motion a tragic chain of events that would end in a ditch on an isolated country road. Initial reports from the officers involved claimed that the teenager's death was the result of a traffic acc
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