On a hot Sunday afternoon in early August 2017, 21-year-old Black man Derjarvious Dickson was out on Cumberland Street in Tunica County, Mississippi, when the quiet of the neighborhood was broken by gunfire. Around 2 p.m., deputies from the Tunica County Sheriff’s Department were called to reports of a shooting on that street and found him gravely wounded. He was still alive when first responders arrived, and he was rushed across the state line to a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, where doctor
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