Anthony Edward Jenkins, a 25-year-old Black male patrolman in Meigs, Georgia, was killed on April 29, 1980, in the final stretch of an ordinary work night that turned fatal just before midnight. Online accounts describe him as a young officer who had been with the Meigs Police Department for only about two months, still a trainee and filling in on patrol because the small department was short-staffed. Sometime near the end of that shift, he was shot and later found wounded, a grim discovery that
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