Roy Gum, a 38-year-old White male, was serving as a police officer in Fairfield, Alabama, when an ordinary call turned into the kind of sudden violence that leaves a town stunned. Late in the summer of 1937, he and another officer were dispatched to a home where a man was reportedly drunk and causing a disturbance. What should have been a routine attempt to restore calm instead became a confrontation charged with fear, confusion, and the split-second decisions that follow when a door opens on da ...
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