Shawn Maxam is just tired of Black men dying young.
There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.
-Harriet Ann Jacobs
In a narrative that is all too familiar in America Chavis Carter, a 21 year old African-American, died while handcuffed in the back of a police car. If that wasn’t strange enough Carter died of an apparent gunshot wound to the head. Here’s a piece of the story from Think Progress:
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.
“Any given officer has missed something on a search, be it drugs, knife, razor blades, this instance it happened to be a gun,” Jonesboro Police Sergeant Lyle Waterworth said after the bizarre incident. The police believe that Chavez managed to pull out a hidden gun and shot himself in spite of the handcuffs.
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