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In 2017, Austin Hunter Turner died after an encounter with the Bristol Police Department. His family had always admired paramedics and police, but in body-camera videos, from the moment police arrived, Turner was treated as a suspect resisting arrest – not as a patient who was having a seizure.

Austin Hunter Turner died in 2017, on a night that Goodwin has rewound and replayed again and again.

Austin Hunter Turner died in 2017, on a night that Goodwin has rewound and replayed again and again.

Austin Hunter Turner died in 2017, on a night that Goodwin has rewound and replayed again and again.

This story was written and contributed by the Associated Press. BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.m., the moment that a doctor had pronounced him dead. […]

Years later, as his family looked at the video, police reports and the autopsy, they became convinced that law enforcement lied about what happened.

For six years, a Bristol woman believed her son died of an overdose. After watching body-camera footage, her memories now conflict with stark images of force.

ELIZABETHTON — Wednesday was science day in the first-degree murder trial of Chad Benfield, accused of sexually assaulting his neighbor, 89-year-old Mary Nolen, on July 14, 2017.

ELIZABETHTON — Wednesday was science day in the first-degree murder trial of Chad Benfield, accused of sexually assaulting his neighbor, 89-year-old Mary Nolen, on July 14, 2017.