Michael Douglas Smith was 74 years old, a White man, and in the earliest hours of June 26, 2021, his life was taken in a way that still feels hard to hold in the mind: gunfire cutting through the quiet of a sleeping neighborhood and into the place where a person should feel most protected. It happened on Flint’s northeast side, on the 2500 block of Thom Street, at a time when most houses are dark and the world seems paused. Police were called around 4:00 a.m., and when they arrived they found
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