"Death of handcuffed man in Ark. a suicide" Associated Press, August 21, 2012
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A man whose hands were cuffed behind him in the back seat of an Arkansas patrol car shot himself in the right temple with a handgun he apparently concealed from arresting officers, according to an autopsy report released Monday that listed the death as a suicide.
Do the authorities in AmeriKa really think they can serve up such a steaming pile of horse s*** and expect us to swallow it?
The state crime lab report, signed by three medical examiners, said the muzzle of a gun was placed against Chavis Carter’s head when it was fired. Jonesboro police released the report under a Freedom of Information Act request.
A toxicology report said Carter tested positive for methamphetamine, the antianxiety medication diazepam, and the painkiller oxycodone. His urine tested positive for marijuana but not alcohol.
The autopsy ruled the death a suicide based on autopsy findings and investigative conclusions from the Jonesboro Police Department, which has faced questions from Carter’s family and community members about the circumstances surrounding the July 28 shooting.
‘‘He was cuffed and placed into a police car, where apparently he produced a weapon, and despite being handcuffed, shot himself in the head,’’ the report said. Charles P. Kokes, the chief medical examiner, did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment.
Police have said officers frisked Carter, 21, twice after a traffic stop without finding a gun before he was fatally shot, but the department’s internal investigation continues.
If true (and that is one hell of a big if) then they should be fired for incompetence.
The FBI also is monitoring the case and the local branch of the NAACP has called for a thorough investigation into the death of Carter, who was black. Two other men who were in a truck with him during the stop and the two officers on the scene are white, according to police.
Oh, questions about race have come up?
Dozens of supporters gathered Monday night outside the motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was slain to pray for Carter. The vigil outside the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis came hours after police released the autopsy report.
Just days ago, police released dashboard camera video recorded the night Carter was shot in Jonesboro, about 130 miles northeast of Little Rock.
Part of the video showed Carter being patted down, but it ended before officers found Carter slumped over and bleeding in the back of a patrol car, as was described in a police report. Police later released additional video they said was recorded after Carter was found.
Neither clip included the moment they say Carter shot himself, and the footage did little to resolve questions about how the shooting could have happened.
I really don't have any. I think we can pretty clearly see what happened to Carter, and it is something that happens to people every day here in 21st-century AmeriKa.
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If I see any more articles about the case in my Boston Globe I will update.
Court reduces punitive damages in Tony Alamo case
Alamo is serving a 175-year prison term after being convicted in 2009 of taking girls across state lines for sex. He has asked the court to vacate that sentence, too."
Also see: Evangelist’s sex-crimes verdict upheld
Sandy Buchanan (left) and Dana Richardson waved to the bus carrying the jury yesterday after evangelist Tony Alamo’s conviction on 10 accounts of sex abuse in Texarkana, Ark. (Evan Lewis/Texarkana Gazette via Associated Press)
"Shouts of “Bye, bye, Bernie’’ - Alamo was born Bernie Lazar Hoffman - came from a crowd gathered on the Arkansas side of the courthouse, which straddles the Texas-Arkansas border."
And now the sick Jew's sentence is being reduced?
Related: Saying Goodbye to Bernie
