Frank Coleman

How they died

Deadly force

Police shot Frank Coleman when he allegedly refused to drop a knife he'd used to threaten his girlfriend. Shortly before 8 p.m., the woman called police to report that her boyfriend had been smoking crack and acting irrationally, and had threatened to kill her. When police arrived, Coleman was standing at the top of the stairs leading to the second floor. An officer said to drop the knife, but Coleman kept walking toward him, so the officer shot him twice. Coleman was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Why we remember them

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

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