In the glaring light of a Columbus, Georgia afternoon, a life was abruptly and violently extinguished. Tamir Harris, a 33-year-old African American man, was standing in the North Highland neighborhood on August 22, 2017, a place known for its struggles with crime and drugs. He was engaged in a conversation with the mother of some of his children, his two-year-old son nearby, when the ordinary moments of the day were shattered by an act of brutal finality.
Without warning, a man approached
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