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Aug 26 2022
04:57 pm
"A Florida college [UCF] student exploring the Alabama wilderness
[Talladega National Forest] with his girlfriend was fatally wounded during a shootout with a would-be robber who appeared to be living with others in the woods, authorities said."
"Michael Jennings [a Black minister in Talladega County, AL] was watering flowers for his out-of-town neighbor in May when an officer approached him. Within minutes, he was arrested, handcuffed and in the back of a police cruiser..."
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