On November 24, 2009, in Oklahoma City, 16-year-old male Herendez Prieto, whose race is recorded in public case summaries simply as “other,” lost his life in a violent incident that authorities classified as a death by force. He was a teenager standing on the edge of adulthood, the kind of age when plans for the future are just starting to feel real, and his death cut abruptly across those plans.
Herendez was a student at Crooked Oak High School, known in his community as a young man
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