In the late hours of a September night in 2017, Donald Smart, a 49-year-old Black man, was making his way to his overnight shift as a dishwasher at a local cafe in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His walk through a park near Louisiana State University was tragically cut short when he was shot and killed in what authorities would later describe as an apparently random act of violence. This event sent ripples of fear and concern through the community, leaving a family to grapple with the sudden and sensel
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