Harold Phillips

How they died

Deadly force

A local officer came across Phillips in a physical altercation with a woman, mid-afternoon, city street. Phillips fled and the officer shot him to death. In one of the rare cases where an officer was indicted for a line-of-duty killing, the officer was convicted of manslaughter and given five years of hard labor.

Why we remember them

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

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