The Honorable Maurice H. Hilliard Jr., 84, awoke at sunrise that first Saturday morning in April, 2016. Morning dew clung to the first budding blooms of spring as he walked outside his Roswell home. He hoisted himself into his Honda pickup truck and motored onto the same Roswell streets he’d protected since before they were paved. Hilliard set his course south for Atlanta’s Landmark Diner, where he ate breakfast with old friends. Sam Massell was there, the former mayor of Atlanta and founding president of the Buckhead Coalition. So was Eldrin Bell, Atlanta’s former police chief; Robert McMichael, once sheriff of Fulton County and later a U.S. Marshal; and another...
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