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Killing of Bernard Whitehurst

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Bernard Whitehurst, Jr. was shot in the back and killed on December 2, 1975, by Donald Foster, a Montgomery, Alabama police officer who said he thought Whitehurst was the suspect in the robbery of a neighborhood grocery store. In a subsequent cover-up, police officers planted a gun on him.

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