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St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones on Monday announced a plan to use $5.5 million that the city owes the State of Missouri as reimbursement for a 2018 wrongful conviction settlement to improve the city’s 911 system and support emergency responders.

The city and the state agreed to pay nearly $14 million to the family of George Allen, a Black man wrongly convicted of murder in the early 1980s. Allen died in 2016 after spending 30 years in prison for a crime he did not commit…