Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown)

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Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown) is pictured in 1990 in front of his grocery store in Atlanta's West End. Al-Amin was arrested in 1999 for his involvement in the fatal shooting of a police officer and later sentenced to life in prison.

Courtesy of Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown)

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