Killing of George Teague Jr. in Alabama in 1947
Incident
George Teague (1921 - 1947), a WWII veteran who was attending school on GI benefits, was killed by Police Officer D.F. Gibson on a public bus or at a bus stop in Birmingham, Alabama. According to accounts from Teague’s family members, Teague allegedly stepped on a white woman’s foot on the bus and Gibson, who was off-duty at the time, NS who was perhaps her husband, shot and killed him. A coroner ruled the death a justifiable homicide.
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