Black WWII soldiers asked a White woman for donuts. They were shot. - The Washington Post

"They weren't breaking a law — unless there's a law against being a Negro soldier," a legal advocate for the slain Black soldiers wrote in 1946. "They were visiting a Red Cross tent — on the post on which they were stationed — and were shot down by trigger-happy guards who had prejudice[d] orders not to allow Negro soldiers to talk to French women."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/01/15/allen-leftridge-black-soldier-segregation/