On a summer afternoon in Birmingham, Alabama, a situation involving a man in distress ended in tragedy. Clyde Patrick, a 44-year-old man, died on August 2, 2007, after an encounter with officers from the Birmingham and University of Alabama at Birmingham police departments. The events of that day would later be scrutinized in a civil rights lawsuit and become a data point in national conversations about the use of Tasers by law enforcement.
That afternoon, police responded to a call conce
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