On a spring night in Decatur, Alabama, Officer Thomas E. Wright, a 36-year-old male with the Decatur Police Department, was working patrol with fellow officer Wade Moore when the pair noticed a traffic violation near the Bee Line Highway. They followed the vehicle as it rolled to a stop in front of a residence on Johnson Street, the place where the driver lived.
As Wright stepped toward the car to make contact, the routine stop turned sudden and violent. The driver�identified in later ac
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