Willie Grier Jr., a 64-year-old Black man from Atlanta, was killed in the early hours of July 4, 2014, after violence erupted at the Aspen Courts Apartments in the 1600 block of Stanton Road SW. According to contemporaneous reporting, Atlanta police were first called to the complex just before 12:50 a.m. on a fight call, but the people there were described as uncooperative and officers left without getting much from the scene. Less than an hour later, police were summoned back on a report of a p
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