On May 26, 1927, Alexander A. Manley, a 35-year-old male Birmingham police officer, stepped into what should have been an ordinary street encounter and never came back from it. Online accounts agree that Manley was approaching a man whose car was illegally parked when the shooting happened. As he walked up to the vehicle, he was shot, and the routine act of enforcing a parking violation turned into a fatal ambush. The loss rippled beyond the street itself, because reports note that he left behin
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