In the early hours of July 18, 1998, a tragic series of events unfolded outside a nightclub in Northwest Washington, D.C., culminating in the death of 24-year-old off-duty police officer Thomas Franklin Hamlette Jr. A member of the Metropolitan Police Department for a year and a half, Hamlette, a Black man, was at a club located at 1213 K Street, NW, a venue co-owned by his father. An altercation that reportedly began as a dispute over a parking space escalated, drawing Hamlette into a physical
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