Dearrius Portis, 29, a Black man from Birmingham, Alabama, died on August 9, 2016, after spending nearly two weeks in the hospital with a gunshot wound suffered in an Ensley shooting. The violence that set everything in motion happened on July 28, 2016, in the 4000 block of Avenue I, near a Marathon gas station. When officers arrived, they found him on the sidewalk, badly wounded, and he was rushed to UAB Hospital for treatment. For days, the case sat in that uneasy space between life and death,
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