In the midst of ongoing tensions in the St. Louis area, a 25-year-old Black man named Kajieme Powell was shot and killed on August 19, 2014. The incident began after police received a call about a suspected shoplifting of soft drinks and doughnuts from a convenience store in St. Louis. When two officers, Nicholas Shelton and Ellis Brown, arrived at the scene, they encountered Powell pacing on the sidewalk, behaving erratically.
Within seconds of their arrival, the situation escalated dram
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