By Jueseppi B.
A 21-year-old in Jonesboro, Arkansas is dead after he was mysteriously shot in the head while handcuffed in the back of a police car. Chavis Carter was arrested on Saturday for possession of marijuana. According to police, while they were searching Carter’s car they heard a gunshot and found Carter dead in the squad car. The odd thing is police reports indicate that two searches of Carter never turned up the alleged handgun that police now claim he shot himself with…while he was handcuffed.
Carter’s mother is accusing police of killing her son saying, “I think they killed him, my son wasn’t suicidial.” The two officers involved in the incident have been put on leave and a formal investigation has been launched. This incident comes on the heels of police brutality in Anaheim where a week and a half ago – police shot an unarmed man who was fleeing in the back of the head killing him. That triggered days of demonstrations and unrest in the streets of Anaheim.
The last thing police need right now is another incident that makes a local community lose faith in law enforcement.
Wednesday evening, Jonesboro Police Chief Michael Yates revealed more details about the ongoing investigation into the strange case ofChavis Carter, who allegedly shot himself in the temple while handcuffed in a police car. The chief, who said the situation was “bizarre” and “defies logic at first glance,” has reviewed the car’s dashboard camera and spoken to witnesses who say the officers were outside the car when Carter was shot:
YATES: There’s no indication of any projectiles coming from outside the vehicle. We’ve reviewed the dashcam video and as late as today managed to have some witnesses come forward that observed the incident from start to finish. And their statements tend to support that whatever transpired in the back of that police car transpired in the back with the officers in a different location.
In a private meeting with local black community leaders, Yates reportedly said the FBI is also involved in the investigation.
A vigil is planned for Carter on Monday night.
More from The Grio:
Chavis Carter, 21, died of a gunshot wound to the head Saturday night in Jonesboro, Arkansas, while he was handcuffed in the back of a police car. Officers Keith Baggett and Ron Marsh claim that Carter committed suicide, that he managed to pull a gun on himself while they searched his vehicle. They had already searched Carter’s person and found no weapon.
According to reports from WREG-TV, Carter was riding in the passenger seat of a pickup truck that was pulled over after 10 pm. Marsh searched Carter and found marijuana plastic baggies. After running his information, the officers discovered Carter had a warrant out in the state of Mississippi. He was then handcuffed (the police report states that he was handcuffed with his hands behind his back), searched again, and placed in the back of the police car.
While searching the vehicle a second time, the officers claim to have heard a loud thump accompanied by a metallic sound, which according to them was Carter shooting himself in the head. When they opened the door, officers Baggett and Marsh found that Carter was still handcuffed with his hands behind his back, but their police report attributed his death to a self-inflicted gunshot. Officers claim to have missed the gun during their two searches of Carter.
“Any given officer has missed something on a search, be it drugs, knife, razor blades, this instance it happened to be a gun,” according to Jonesboro Police Sergeant Lyle Waterworth. Carter’s mother, Teresa, is not so sure.
“I think they killed him, my son wasn’t suicidal,” she told WREG. She says her son was left-handed, but was shot in the right temple, and had previously placed a phone call to his girlfriend to tell her that he would be calling her from jail. “I mean, I just want to know what really happened,” she said.
This suspicious shooting death comes not too long after the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) released a report showing that in the first half of 2012 (January 1 – June 30), 120 black people have been killed by police, security guards, or self-appointed law enforcers.
Police in Jonesboro are conducting an investigation to determine just how Carter was shot. The two officers have been placed on administrative leave.
I am curious, why is it that no caucasian youth ever commits suicide while his hands are cuffed behind his back, in the rear of a police cruiser, by shooting himself AFTER BEING SEARCHED & THEN CUFFED? Why has there never been a reported case of a caucasian youth being shot 57 times by policemen while reaching for their wallet? Why does not one single caucasian youth, man, woman every never get dead mysteriously while in the custody of law enforcement?
Can anyone give me an educated, intelligent, cognoscente answer to this question?
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Awful and tragic. WTF.
Most cops are authoritarian in nature
Most cops are corrupt
Most cops are not very bright
Most cops are white
Most white cops are racists and misogynists
Society undervalues and/or fears young Black Males
The MSM promotes this fear.
Even if the MSM carries the story, people suspect the young black male “had it coming.”
The environment is then in place to give cops the sense that as long as it is a black man shooting himself while handcuffed ( we all know they are better athletes) , they can get away with it.
Thank you Publius for clearing that up for me, our athleticism finally has come back to bite us in the ass.
It’s your stealth firearms technology that impresses me most, Mr. Jueseppi. So cleverly conceived that it eludes not one, but two searches by the police. Who knew?
Yes, police are immune to stealth firearm technology. I should market this to all criminal worldwide.
I sent an email to the guys at “Single Wide Labs” up on Mount Whitey. They conceded that The Brothers lead the way in this technology and natural athleticism, and that currently the best they can do is a camouflage fanny pack and a skinny, double jointed meth-head from Kentucky who hates his life. According to them, the real difficulty is in getting the guy arrested, which they attribute to reverse discrimination.
This is a funny thread.
I find it hard to believe the police didn’t recognize the sound of a gunshot
I find it even harder to believe the police, who searched this “America’s Most Wanted” candidate, TWICE according to police accounts, didn’t find his hidden firearm.
And all over a couple of joints. I rest my case about the stupidity of the drug war on marijhuana. They should never have been messing with him in the first place! Oh – I forgot! He was black. never mind. they would have messed with him anyway
Yes; you are right. If he hadn’t had weed; they would have arrested him for “Possession of Toenails” or trying to steal more air than his lungs could carry or “Possesion of a Beating Heart” Motherfuckers won’t fry either. And then they wonder why people won’t co-operate with them.
I would rather take a beating than call on a cop. I have never (read that N-E-V-E-R) called the cops for anything and I hope I never need to because al-in-all I would rather invite a crack dealer in to my house. At least he will tell me straight up he’s a criminal; not try to hide his criminality behind a guise of “Law and Order”
Anyway; most of the people I know are criminals due to the Governments insistance on criminalizing a large prtion of America with their restrictive laws of one kind or another. Fuck Cops. I’ll take the criminals. I can fight back against their crimes. If I fight back against the cops crimes; I’ll get arrested. If I was Black; I would be handcuffed and shot in the back of a Police Cruiser.
By the way; after taking a careful look at this “event”; I have decided that your initial judgement that these cops won’t be charged is wrong.
I believe the charge will be about $149.995for cleaning the upholstery in the cruiser. He may even be reprimanded by his masters for “Bad choice of murder location”.
You always express exactly what I am thinking My Brotha.
This whole thing is too hard for anyone to believe!!
Not too hard for Black America to believe, it is a common occurrence in the Black community.
I’m sorry, I wasn’t clear. I believe that it happened. I mean that the police officers’ story is too fantastical for ANY thinking person to believe, no matter what color they are. I doubt the most dyed-in-the wool racists believe it, either. They just have a different reaction to the news. Ugh!
Yes, that is the gospel. And I knew what you meant, I was just pulling those legs.
My first question is: Who are these witnesses that were hanging out at the scene of a traffic stop to provide an alibi for the cops?
What race were these witnesses? (strictly for accurate information gathering of course because the thought that they might be white; and lying for the cops; in ARKANSAS; never crossed my naive little mind)
“Can anyone give me an educated, intelligent, cognoscente answer to this question?”
I’m sorry JB. There is no intelligent answer to this question. But I’m pretty sure I can give you the uneducated, knuckle-dragging, mouth breathing, bottom feeding answer.
But first; perhaps we should ask another question.
Question: What is a good reason for a cop to execute a black youth in the back of his car?
Answer: Reason? We don’t need no stinking reason.
I just wrote a comment on BrabbleRabble last night that addresses this issue. A lady wrote in to say that although it is terrible that so many people are experiencing Police Brutality; she admires the role that the cops play and believes they need better training and more self-control.
She says that we shouldn’t judge all cops by the actions of a few and that we should look at the individual department to acsertain whether there is a pattern of such offences. I would like to address this at length and so I will. let me shamelessly direct you and your readers to my site for my upcoming answer to her comment and I think your question.
For now; the pain goes on and on. It seems that the idea of the Police is “Better kill them while their young; before they ever get a chance to grow up to be another Barrack Obama” “If we kill them; they can’t complain about their rights being violated”
Of course; it probably wouldn’t hurt if we were to stop giving these Killer Cops an excuse to detain our youth by ending Prohibition but that won’t stop the killing; maybe just slow it a bit.
I am heart-sick at the thought of that boy and how he must have felt when he realised he was about to be executed (for smoking marijuana?). What feeling of terror and helplessness. I keep thinking that we are a better people than this; hoping the slaughter will end and yet; here we are again. Another young man cut down in the street by the very people who are supposed to be protecting him.
You know; I wrote an article not long ago about how I felt that racism was on the decline; not gone by any means but that many more Americans than ever were beginning to relax and open their hearts to the problem. I still believe I am right and that the best hope is better communication between the races etc. but I failed to note that for some pathetic Neanderthals; it will never end and they will never get it.
Here is a question that you can help me with.
Why is it that if Chavez had shot one of these Stormtroopers; he would already be on the table with a crowd yelling “Strap him down and pump him full” But these two animals will more than likely see no punishment for this murder or certainly not the needle?
It seems to me that a cop who is killed in the line of duty is just experiencing the dangers inherrent to the job. he knew the job was dangerous when he took it. Criminal aren’t trained in the use of force; they do as a matter of self-protection. Now you can say they shouldn’t be committing crime but it is an unusual criminal who goes out with the thought that he is going to kill a cop tonight.
It is apparent though that the Police have no such inhibitions and are willing to kill anyone they want; anytime and any place because they fear no retribution.
I believe that because these cops are trained; they should be able to use the force required to apprehend without using deadly force. So if a cop kills a suspect; the cop should be the one to get the needle for it. He is the professional; he is the adult here so to speak and when cops kill; it isn’t an accident; it’s a thrill ride for these assholes.
The fact that they so often choose Black kids as there victims is for two reasons I believe.
They are racist and they know they are more likely to get away with it if their victim is Black because the courts in this country are consistantly less likely to find the cops at fault if the victim is black.
Our whole criminal Justice system is a sham and a travesty from the cops to the courts to the prisons.
And it isn’t that I don’t think we need cops; we just don’t need the kind we have.
My thoughts and prayers go out to the mother and family and friends of this young man and I’m here to tell you that not all of white America approves of this. I am white and from this young man’s picture; he looks like just the sort of guy I would be honored to sit and party with.
He is the sort of guy I do sit and party with and it’s akick in the gut to think his partying days are over forever because of these two PIGS and their hatred.
How they hell did it happen ??? … I think maybe .. he knew too much about something that police didn’t want to be exposed … therefore .. they silenced him …
You’re asking the right questions, JB.
Yes Lisa but will I get an answer?
Who knows? But you have to ask the questions, for there to ever be a chance of getting it.
Thats me, always asking the questions. Let me know when you find those 2 pieces U made 4 me.
I will, don’t worry! it is driving me crazy!
Damn jewelry trolls!!! Wearing my stuff.