Perry Manley

How they died

Deadly force

For the previous 15 years Manley had developed into a vexacious litigant on the topic of the unfairness of child support. Familiar to the security staff at the federal courthouse, when he showed up with improvised armament (a drilled-out inactive hand grenade, a cutting board for a bulletproof vest) they negotiated with him for 20 minutes. Finally a local officer interpreted his "furtive" movements as threatening and shot him to death.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Perry Manley, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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