On the Fourth of July in 2010, the life of a 24-year-old African-American man, Raynard Johnson, was cut short by violence in the Mondawmin neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. He was discovered with multiple gunshot wounds, another victim in a city that was grappling with a significant wave of violent crime. The authorities were alerted, but the investigation into his death immediately faced hurdles that were all too common in the city's most affected neighborhoods.
Despite the efforts of
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