At Rest

Deadly force
According to DPD, officers conducted a traffic stop on Spence, named in a parole violation warrant. Spence exited his other. He and the officers fought. Officer Phillip White saw the point of a knife "protruding from the backside of the subject's clenched fist." Officer White shot Spence once. Spence died at the scene.
This record exists so that David Spencer, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.
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