Irvin C. L. Starling, a 36-year-old male patrolman with the Attalla Police Department, was working the kind of shift where nothing is supposed to stand out�headlights cutting through the dark, the steady rhythm of patrol, the small decisions that keep a town stitched together. On Saturday, February 22, 1975, that routine turned deadly during a traffic stop in Attalla, Alabama. The driver he pulled over had, according to later accounts, just beaten his wife moments earlier, and the tension that s
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