Anthony Crawford Jones, a 36-year-old Black/African American male, was working the midnight hours in Dillingham when a burglary alarm cut through the cold of February 12, 1992. He and another Dillingham Police Department officer moved toward a local hardware store at about 12:45 a.m., scanning the dark storefront when gunfire erupted. In the exchange that followed, Officer Jones—known around town as “Flip” or “Tony”—was struck and fatally wounded. He had served with the department fo
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