Benjamin H. Crider, a 30-year-old White male and the chief of police in Carrollton, Georgia, was remembered as the town’s earliest documented police chief, a small-town officer working in a community of only a few hundred people when violence overtook him on June 8, 1900. The accounts that survive agree on the heart of what happened: Crider was trying to make an arrest when the man he was confronting opened fire and shot him. Even in the moment he was falling, Crider reportedly fired back, tur
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