At Rest

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Officers arrested McKnight in relation to a domestic disturbance. He complained that he could not breathe. The officers ignored him. Though he died of cocaine-related excited delirium and sickle-cell asphyxiation, his cause of death was listed as homicide.
This record exists so that Michael Wayne McKnight Jr., and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.
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