At Rest

Less-than-lethal force
Mark James Spencer allegedly threatened to shoot his girlfriend, who reported him to police. Near the end of a 14-hour standoff, Officer Eric Bucholz fired tear gas into a crawl space where Spencer was hiding. Police broke down a wall to get to Spencer, who was unresponsive and died. Even though it was a lethal amount of tear gas, the officer was cleared of criminal wrongdoing.
This record exists so that Mark James Spencer, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.
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