Jonathan Price, a 31-year-old city employee, beloved in the Wolfe City community (about an hour northeast of Dallas, Texas), was trying to break up a fight between a man and a woman at a gas station. The man then assaulted Price and when police arrived, they tased Price before shooting him dead.
Will Middlebrooks, a third baseman with the Red Sox for __ season, had been a childhood friend of Price. Middlebrooks said price was "singled out" when the police arrived and his death "was purely an act of racism". Heartbroken and furious, Middlebrooks expressed his feelings online:
See this face?