On the evening of August 26, 2021, in Canton, Mississippi, Jeison Romero Lopez, a Latino male child only weeks away from his sixth birthday, sat buckled into the back seat of his mother’s car while she refueled at a Marathon gas station near the intersection of Franklin and Canal streets. The late-summer sky was starting to dim, and what should have been a simple weekday stop for gas was, for his family, part of the gentle routine of preparing for school and an upcoming birthday. Just up the s
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