Richard E. Williams, a 62-year-old Black man from Atlanta, Georgia, was not described in the online record as having died on January 28, 1987. Instead, the available public accounts say that January 28, 1987, was the day his life was shattered. Williams was an Atlanta Police Department investigator working school detail when he arrested three people at Booker T. Washington High School for trespassing and disrupting classes. The arrest should have been routine. One of the three was a 19-year-old,
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