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Thursday, August 16, 2012

Bad Time

I have been hesitant to make my feelings about the Chavis Carter shooting  known. I don't want to jump to conclusions, but it's awfully hard. Someone posted the wrong photo to begin with. That's probably why some lawyer hasn't taken the case. I mentioned this same thing  about  Trayvon Martin. What would happen if he looked like Lil Wayne instead of Drake..This is exactly what I was talking about. Looks like justice has eyes.

Once you get past the emotion of a young black man losing his life. Honestly,you could go either way. I have too many questions that haven't been answered yet. I know how these things can play out. The only thing we know for sure is Chavis  is dead. I think he shot himself alright, but it wasn't suicide. I think he shot himself by mistake. While he was trying to get rid of the gun.What we have here is a case of police apathy and not abuse. Those officers are just glad he shot himself and not them.

I would love to know how much weed was found and what kind of gun was he killed with. It would give me some idea what charges he was facing and how much time was at stake. Was he looking at doing time or just paying a fine? A stint at "Cummins State Prison" compared to a night in lockup in downtown Jonesboro requires desperate measures. Why was he in Jonesboro Ark. anyway? I know this is a free country and you can go anywhere you want. But people usually have a reason for being where they are. Jonesboro is no Atlanta or L.A. If you live in Southaven why would you bypass Memphis to hang out over there? They don't even have a mall.

Sometimes you have a girlfriend living somewhere else. But that's not usually the case. Whether you know it or not. City dwellers and dealers with connections are leaving the city going to these smaller towns selling drugs. I don't know if  he's in a gang, but he has that hairstyle. The only other young men I saw with their hair like that in Memphis, were convicted cop killers. If there was a female. Why was he in the car with these two guys?  Does he have family or a job over there? Who were the guys he was with, and where are they now? Where was his car?  Because he was a passenger in the car that was initially stopped by police. According to reports there were also witnesses.

Here is the hitch. Blacks set themselves back forty years with what happened in West Memphis.  Dr. Issac Richmond isn't going to be able to get the exposure this thing needs to make it national. He had a march that drew less than fifty people. I couldn't hardly find stories about this on the Internet. I guess covering two unexplained cases at once, is too much. Now that Al and Jesse are working together. This happened at a bad time.

7 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:30 AM

    Family and friends of Chavis Carter, a former Southaven resident who was fatally shot in the head while handcuffed in the back of a Jonesboro, Ark., police car last month, are holding a prayer vigil at the National Civil Rights Museum Monday.

    Kareem Ali of Southaven, who is helping the family organize the vigil, said the event will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the court yard of the museum at 450 Mulberry in downtown Memphis.

    "His family wants to bring attention from the Mid-South about this injustice," Ali said.

    He said many family and friends in the Tunica area, where 21-year-old Carter grew up, were not able to attend a recent vigil for him in Jonesboro, so his family decided to hold a vigil closer to home.

    "We just want some justice for this injustice, and we want some answers about this young man's death, that no one believes was a suicide," Ali said.

    Jonesboro police contend Carter committed suicide after he was arrested July 28.

    Carter and two other friends riding in a truck were stopped by police on a residential street in Jonesboro. Carter, who formerly lived in the 8000 block of Sweet Flag Loop in Southaven, was arrested after police found he had a felony warrant.

    The bench warrant was issued by DeSoto County Circuit Court for contempt of court when Carter violated terms of his three-year probation, according to court records. Carter had been arrested and charged in 2010 for two counts of sale of marijuana.

    Jonesboro police also allege they found marijuana during their traffic stop.

    Police said they overlooked a .380 caliber handgun they said Carter had concealed. Carter, still handcuffed behind his back, shot himself in the temple with the weapon, according to police.

    Jonesboro police last week released a video in which officers re-enact how Carter could have killed himself while handcuffed. Dash cam video from police cars also was released of the arrest but did not show the moment the shot was fired.

    The FBI and the Justice Department are investigating Carter's death.

    Russell Marlin, a Memphis attorney representing Carter's family, said he also is conducting his own investigation, and the family announced Friday that the Cochran Firm of Memphis has been hired to investigate.

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  2. I see it's going to be hard to get a open minded discussion about what really happened. Someone who has been working with guns for forty years,supports my theory. People just don't want to hear it right now. It would interrupt the march.

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  3. Anonymous6:28 PM

    Only Jesse came.NAN didn't get involved. Greg Geant smelled a dead fish on the line.

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  4. Where was Parks & Crump on this one? Do you think they shyed away because of the white girlfriend, or the fact that he had prior convictions? This never made it to CNN.

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