Jessie Cobb (1917 - 1941), a café employee, was killed by Detective Sergeant John Holland in 1941 in Montgomery, Alabama. A Black man reported to Holland that Cobb and a friend had threatened him with a knife. When the officer approached Cobb and his friend on the street, an altercation ensued, and Holland was injured with his own gun. Holland shot Cobb three times. Cobb was said to have fled; he was found dead in a nearby house. Holland was indefinitely suspended from the police force for “unnecessary brutality” a year later.

Jesse Cobb

John Holland