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“Four Bottles, One Fatal Chase, and a System That Refuses to Rewind: The Cyrus Carmack-Belton Case Exposes the Cost of Wrong Assumptions”
Once you strip everything down in the Rick Chow trial, you’re left with something painfully simple. A 14-year-old, Cyrus Carmack-Belton, is accused of stealing four bottles of water. Surveillance footage reportedly shows he puts them back. The accusation is wrong. Still, he’s confronted, still he runs, still he’s chased over roughly 130 yards, and still he ends up shot in the back.
And I don’t know how you sit with that sequence and treat it like a normal “self-defense deb
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