On a December day in 1975 in Montgomery, Alabama, Bernard Whitehurst, Jr., a 32-year-old Black man, was tragically killed. Mistaken for a robbery suspect, he was shot in the back by a white police officer, Donald Foster. This single event set in motion a long and troubling story of injustice and a city's struggle with its own law enforcement.
The initial narrative offered by the police was one of self-defense. They claimed Whitehurst had fired at them, and they returned fire, killing him.
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