Nine Years After a North Georgia Police Shooting
What Followed Was Not the Headline
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Jesse Crosson was arrested just after his 18th birthday.
by Brandon Burley of Burley Books and The Redemption Project Podcast

I’ve spent the last few months sitting across from men society usually only knows by their worst moment.