On a summer evening in Lexington, Kentucky, Kwame El-Amin, a 42-year-old Black man, was at Douglass Park watching the annual Dirt Bowl basketball tournament. The event, a long-standing community tradition, was filled with spectators enjoying the games on Father's Day, June 21, 2015. Suddenly, the sounds of gunshots shattered the festive atmosphere, causing chaos as people scattered for safety. When the pandemonium subsided, it was discovered that five people had been struck by bullets. El-Amin w
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