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What Happened to Tyree Woodson? A Reexamination of a Death in Police Custody
Chapter 6: Last Minutes Before they took Woodson to the precinct, Thompson waited outside with…
What Happened to Tyree Woodson? A Reexamination of a Death in Police Custody
Chapter 5: Getting the Boot According to the police report, late in the night of…
What Happened to Tyree Woodson? A Reexamination of a Death in Police Custody
Chapter 4: Homecoming Because the cameras in the courtroom often faced outward from the bench, toward the gallery, I inadvertently watched Woodson's mother and his fiancée as they watched the trial. When…
What Happened to Tyree Woodson? A Reexamination of a Death in Police Custody
Chapter 3: Moving On The two lawyers squaring off in the case had an evident dislike for one another. Grant McDaniel, the prosecutor, was a lumpy white man, with a penchant for…
What Happened to Tyree Woodson? A Reexamination of a Death in Police Custody
Chapter 2: Flexing Their Muscles Almost a year after Woodson's death, some information started to come out. As a result of a public information act request, The Sun's Justin Fenton discovered that…
What Happened to Tyree Woodson? A Reexamination of a Death in Police Custody
Chapter 1: Piecing Together the Past Verdessa McDougald lives in a small, brick house in Southwest Baltimore. I had been trying to talk to her for months, occasionally calling, mostly leaving messages,…