David Earl Whetstone, a 65-year-old Black man, was killed on November 22, 2020 in Sylacauga, Alabama, and by the time law enforcement reached him that night he was already beyond help. It was around 9 p.m. when deputies with the Talladega County Sheriff’s Office, working alongside the Childersburg Police Department, responded to a report of a shooting. They found Whetstone unresponsive and suffering from a gunshot wound, and he was pronounced dead at the scene, turning what began as a call for
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