Rashiem Porter, a 36-year-old Black man from Birmingham, Alabama, was killed on January 11, 2017, in a burst of violence that unfolded outside a convenience store near Pearson Avenue Southwest and 17th Place Southwest. That night, according to Birmingham police and local reporting, Porter arrived at the store and almost immediately became involved in a confrontation with other men, a clash investigators believed was not random but tied to prior bad blood. Surveillance footage reviewed by police
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