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Some teenagers were decorating a basement for a party. Police came down the stairs. An officer sh0t a 14-year-old in the head. Claude Reese. Brooklyn, September 1974. The officer said he believed the boy had a gun. There was no gun. There was a broom. A grand jury declined to indict him. Claude Reese Jr. was fourteen years old and was setting up a room for a party. That is the entire fact pattern. His death, and Clifford Glover's the year before, and Randolph Evans's two years later, were part of why New York's Black communities spent the 1970s in a state of controlled fury that most history books describe only as "tension." Three boys. Ten, fourteen, fifteen. Three different years. Nobody convicted in any of them. We keep publishing these week after week not because we enjoy it, but because the pattern only becomes visible when you see them stacked. The more stories you uncover, the harder the pattern becomes to ignore. We put them all in one place for you savvypurchase.samcart.com/pr…