This would be pretty funny if some poor kid in Arkansas wasn’t dead:
Police in Jonesboro, Arkansas have launched an investigation into how 21-year-old Chavis Carter was shot in the back of a patrol car Saturday night.
Carter, who died at the hospital, was in the passenger seat of a pickup truck that was pulled over by police just before 10 pm, reports WREG.
According to Officer Keith Baggett who was on the scene, Officer Ron Marsh found “some marijuana” and several new plastic baggies when he searched Carter. When they ran his information through dispatch, they found that he was wanted on a warrant in Mississippi, where he lived.
The cops then handcuffed him, searched him again, and put him in the back of the patrol car. While Baggett searched the vehicle, he claims he heard “a loud thump with a metallic sound” on his trunk and saw Marsh motion to him.
The thumping noise, according to the cops, was Carter shooting himself in the head.
The police report attributed the death to a self-inflicted gunshot, though when the two officers opened the squad car door, they found Carter’s hands were still cuffed behind his back. The gun, they said, was somehow missed in both searches…
There’s more, Susie. The left-handed Carter was shot int he right temple.
Reminds me of an old satirical piece I read about how Allende committed suicide by shooting himself in the back forty times from a distance of 35 feet, pausing only once to reload.
Locally there is another case where the cops are getting away with murder. In Sellersville the Perkasie police shot a mentally ill man who was handcuffed and killed him. Late last week the Bucks Co, DA issued a report that said while the cops shouldn’t have shot him oh well, and no charges will be forthcoming.