At Rest

Deadly force
Multiple neighbors called police with complaints about a man trying to get into their houses between midnight and 1 a.m. Responding police encountered Givens, knife in hand, irrational, uncooperative. Multiple officers shot him to death. He'd had a long history of weapons and drugs charges and mental illness.
This record exists so that Joseph Givens, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.
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