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In a city like Baltimore, where the drug war rages on,

shootings and homicides are an almost daily occurrence,

and the heaviest police presence can be found in poor black communities.

There are a lot of Keith Davis juniors.

By that I mean there are many 20-something black men

who may have never held a gun in their life,

but legally, they never will.

Thanks to a combination of circumstance, youthful decision-making,

aggressive stats driven policing, and deceptively sweet pleedials.

For most of his life, Keith's father, also named Keith,

was in and out of the picture, so his mom, Tnett, was his primary parent.

They lived in Catton'sville in Baltimore County,

and eventually Tnett married Keith's stepfather, Tony.

Tnett had Keith when she was a teenager,

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