In the small town of Cotton Plant, Arkansas, a routine encounter on a summer day in 1984 turned into a tragedy that would leave the community without its full-time police force. On July 13, 1984, Police Officer Roy L. Leon, Jr., a 24-year-old male, was on duty with Police Chief Leonard E. Cross. The two officers approached a 16-year-old, Benny Ray Hatley, in connection with a stolen motorcycle. What happened next unfolded quickly and violently, forever altering the lives of all involved and shak
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