Austin Stewart was 22, a Black man, when he was killed on May 9, 2014, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in a crime that police later described as a robbery that ended in gunfire. That Friday evening, he was found slumped inside his car in the 1100 block of Swart Street at about 6:30 p.m., the kind of discovery that stops a neighborhood cold—an idling silence, a vehicle that shouldn’t be there, and then the realization that someone had been shot and left behind.
In the hours and days after h
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