Roscoe Flanary, a male police officer serving the town of Coeburn, Virginia, stepped into a tense autumn evening when politics had drawn a crowd and tempers were already running hot. A speaker identified in contemporary reporting as “Mr. Dobson” had stopped between trains to deliver an address ahead of an upcoming election, and townspeople packed in close to listen—some to cheer, others to heckle, and a few to settle old grievances under the cover of noise and excitement.
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