Smirking ex-Alabama cop charged with murdering Steve Perkins during truck repossession
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A former Alabama police officer has been charged with murder in the shooting death of Stephen Perkins, a black man who confronted a tow truck driver as he was was trying to repossess his truck. Mac Bailey Marquette, 23, previously an officer with the Decatur Police Department, turned himself in Thursday at the county jail and was booked on a grand jury warrant for murder, Morgan County District Attorney Scott Anderson announced at a press conference Friday. βIt is not easy for me to be in a position of prosecuting...
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