In the late summer of 2024, 23-year-old Mason Payne, a White male, found his life cut short in a moment that began as nothing more than a heated exchange. On August 24, in the Skybridge parking lot in Davenport, Iowa, a verbal argument broke out among a group of young men. Mason was there, but according to his mother, he was not part of the initial confrontation. What started as words in a public lot near the river—an argument that could have fizzled and been forgotten—was instead transforme
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