On the night of May 22, 1970, a single gunshot shattered the quiet of a Saint Paul, Minnesota neighborhood, ending the life of 27-year-old Caucasian police officer James Sackett. An Air Force veteran and a member of the Saint Paul Police Department for just 18 months, Sackett was a husband and a father to four young children. That evening, he was on his first shift back at work after the birth of his youngest child. The call that led him to his death was a deceptive plea for help, a report of a
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