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given an x-ray or follow up care. Brazier died on April 25, 1958, and an autopsy was conducted, it was determined that the victim died as a result of “cerebral necrosis and hemorrhage secondary to severe contra-coup trauma” and listed “skull fracture” and “multiple contusions of the scalp”. The officer who killed him, had also beaten and shot other black men.
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Officer Cherry and placed in jail, where he saw Dr. Charles M. Ward who misdiagnosed him as drunk based on slurred speech. As a result he was not
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29:(c. 1926–April 25, 1958) was an African-American victim of police brutality and substandard medical care that followed. He was imprisoned, fined, and beaten to death by police officers, in events spanning between 1957 and 1958. Brazier was a United States Army veteran and had lived in
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