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We will never stop in Mekko until Mekko is the best place to live in in Georgia.

This is Mekko in Georgia 1962.

And against this backdrop, two teenagers, AC and Eloise, are out on a date and cross paths with police.

We'll tell you how an innocent moment like this could end in, well, in tragedy.

I drove up behind our car and there was a colored man getting out of the car as I drove up.

I had left from my home earlier and arrived at my mother's house and my gun was in the car when

I left home. And about the time we got to the corner of the school, this colored boy, he run out

from the side of it and he ran out in front of the car lights. She called, said, that's the man

there that got the gun. The first entrance of the bullet was in the back part of this boy's body

and this penetrated through several organs as you testified. Yes. What did you hollard?

I hollard. They didn't kill they see. They done killed AC. That's right.

AC Hall will tell you about how this teenager's impulse to flee, collided with police officers

impulse to fire. This is our past, but is it also our present? In Barry True season 2, we examine a

case from years ago, decades, but it sure feels familiar today. Subscribe on Apple podcasts or your

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