Killing of Collin Bendolph in Alabama in 1950
Incident
Collin Bendolph, 27, longshoreman, was killed in 1950 by patrolman Joseph Wade in Mobile, Alabama. Wade and patrolman Charles Boyes were investigating a report of a fight, and claimed that Wade shot Bendolph after Bendolph threatened them with a knife. Differing accounts allege that Bendolph was speaking to his wife in the doorway of his home, and that Wade shot him as the officers ordered him to drop a knife.
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