On a September evening in 2016, a dedicated 46-year-old White male, Sergeant Kenneth Melvin Steil, a 20-year veteran of the Detroit Police Department, found himself in a fateful foot pursuit. The man he was chasing, 21-year-old Marquise Cromer, was a suspect in a string of violent crimes, including a carjacking and the shooting of his own father. The chase ended abruptly at a gas station on the city's east side when Cromer turned and fired a sawed-off shotgun, striking Sergeant Steil in the shou
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