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On January 26th, 2025, Matthew Huddle died. That much we know for certain. Usually I tell you a story

that's old enough that the ink is not only dry, but it's begun to fade a little.

The reports are in, the motions have been filed, argued, and ruled on.

The official story is set in stone.

That's not the case today.

As I'm writing this, there are still questions left unanswered. There is a state

police investigation into an officer involved shooting still underway. But Matthew Huddle is dead.

That much we know. Just days before he died, he'd gotten some long-awaited good news. His uncle Dale was coming home.

Both men were among the nearly 1,600 people pardoned by Donald Trump in one of his first

actions after being sworn in his president. Matthew had already served his six-month sentence.

When the pardons came through, Dale Huddle was just a few months in to a two-and-a-half-year

term at a prison in Illinois.

On the afternoon that he died, Matthew Huddle was driving somewhere in Jasper County, Indiana.

I don't know where he was going, but I do know he wasn't supposed to be driving.

And according to the Jasper County Sheriff,

he was speeding. I can only assume that the altercation that allegedly ensued began after the sheriff's deputy discovered that Huddle did not have a valid driver's license. The deputy claims

Huddle resisted when he tried to place him under arrest, and it was during

this altercation that the sheriff says the deputy discovered that Huddle was in possession of a firearm,

which she was not legally allowed to have. The final moments of Matthew Huddle's life will,

eventually, be settled in some sort of official report. Maybe they'll release the deputy's body-worn camera footage.

Maybe his family will file a lawsuit.

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