Dewayne Powell, a 41-year-old Black male, was killed on February 23, 2016, in Birmingham, Alabama, in a death that unfolded with a grim, almost cinematic cruelty. Before dawn, firefighters and police were called to a house fire in the 700 block of New Hill Avenue in the East Brownville neighborhood. Inside that burning home, they found Powell dead. What at first looked like a fatal fire quickly turned into something darker. Authorities said he had been shot, and his body was partially burned, le
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