On a September morning in 2017, a young Black/African American male named James Scales Jr. was waiting for the school bus just a block from his home in St. Louis, Missouri, when his life was tragically cut short. The 16-year-old was shot multiple times on September 5th. Despite his injuries, he managed to run back to his house, where he collapsed and died in his mother's front room. His death was not a random act of violence but the final, brutal chapter of a story that began nearly a year earli
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