Joseph Payton

Death by Force

Joseph Payton, 45, an African-American male, died in Milwaukee in late December 2009. His name appears in funeral notices published that month, marking a life cut short and a family preparing final rites at a local funeral home. The fragmentary public record fixes his age and the city where he died but leaves much of the surrounding story in shadow, a reminder of how even recent losses can recede into the margins of the news.

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