Chavis Carter Called His Girlfriend Minutes Before Being Shot in the Police Car
Police are saying that the man who was shot in the back of a police car while handcuffed called his girlfriend and told her that he had a gun. The case of Chavis Carter has gotten attention from the nation, including civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, who called for an investigation. Carter’s death was ruled to be a suicide, but observers were wondering how he could have shot himself in the head while handcuffed.
Carter’s girlfriend, who remains unidentified, says that he told her that he was scared and that he loved her. Police say that the man made two calls from the back of the police car.
Benjamin Irwin, a Memphis, Tenn., lawyer representing Carter’s family, told USA Today that “in previous reports and information we had about (the girlfriend) was that no mention of a gun during the call was included. …After watching the other witness interviews, I can only speculate that the interview involved a lot of leading questions by the investigator.”
Officers say that they searched Carter twice and never found a gun on him. Carter is black and the two arresting officers are white.
“It is presumed that Carter secreted the gun in the rear of the car after the pat-down but before the cuffing and second search,” the police statement said.
“I think the critical points still remain that this young man was in police custody,” Irwin said Wednesday. “He lost his life at a time when they had a responsibility and duty to protect him.”
Police say that a man claims that Carter told him to bring him a gun right before his interaction with the police. The officers are also say that Carter was involved in a small drug deal involving 4 ounces of marijuana. They also said that he tested positive for meth, along with other drugs.
Police say that the evidence of how the blood splattered makes their case that this was a suicide, not a police shooting.
“This virtually eliminates any possibility that the fatal wound was caused by any weapon other than the one recovered in the rear of the vehicle and that its discharge was caused by Carter,” police said in the statement.
The videotaped evidence that was released by the police department had been edited, leading critics to wonder if they were hiding something.
“These things are crystal clear from a reception standpoint and from a functioning standpoint,” he said. “And then they just malfunction for three minutes when this young man lost his life? I am just not ready to accept that as the answer.”
Carter’s mother has marched with Rev. Jesse Jackson and other community supporters who are looking for answers as to what happened to her son.
“We hope that people concerned about justice, white and black, would find some common ground as we pursue this case of justice,” Jackson told reporters in Memphis, Tenn. “We simply want justice and fairness in the land. … We are convinced the explanations given so far are not credible ones.”
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Changes in laws are constantly being made. Their are Laws being established to protect the guilty and innocent. Even homosexuals have laws in place to protect their constutional rights as it relates to fair and unjust treatment. However,when will the world get it???? Policemen have a code of conduct that will “NEVER” change. (Until you become a officer of the law you really have no idea what these men and women and thus we the public will never really understand the importance of this code)
Yes the whole “good” cop “bad” cop idea is clearly understand as with anyone in other occupations but…..at the end of the day a COP is still a cop….and in most cases depending on the culture of the work assignment as it relates to the city,state,or township the officer is assigned to the good will out the weigh the bad and or vice a versa!!!! Bottom line take responsibility for your own LIFE or you will defiantly fall into the wrong hands. Which may or may end in life or death!!!!
Exactly!!! Because if he hadn’t been with these people doing whatever they were doing, he may still be alive today! This is what we need to be teaching people DO NOT GIVE THEM A VALIDATED REASON! Chances are you will come face to face with these people because you are black so make sure when you do you can hopefully go home walking and not in a box.
A PIG IS A PIG!!!
There are ‘laws and orders’ for caucasoids, who are pigs, and there are ‘laws and orders’ for negroid pigs!!!
Do you know, if a Black pig do any harm to a caucasoid criminal, they will spend a MINIMUM of 50 YEARS IN PRISON if they beat, kill or harm a caucasoid criminal? Do you know a cop in Atlanta was FIRED because he arrest an unruly caucasoid female, who tried to beat him? She sued the pig department and WON a settlement of $350,000 although she was the criminal!!!
Black pigs ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SHOOT A CRACKER, EVEN IF THE CRACKER CRIMINAL SHOOTS AT THEM!!!
A Black cop told me this, who has retired from being a pig! He also told me, that when he was turning in too many caucasoids, he gave traffic tickets to, his supervisor put him on foot patrol duty. They made him walk up and down alleys in Black neighborhoods to discipline him!
SO MUCH FOR BEING A PIG, RIGHT?
A PIG IS A PIG!!!
Those white boys should’ve been arrested! They had the drugs and probably the gun!
This brother was used as a scapegoat for those crackers! Anytime drugs are found in an automobile EVERYBODY is going to jail!
These racist southern cracker klanners think we are dumb and stupid. THEY KILLED THIS BROTHER!!! The fbi ain’t gonna do a d**n thing, but protect their own kind. We cannot continue to depend on these liars all our lives. We need our own police force, fbi, autopsy personnel to keep an eye on these devils!
And the vehicle is impounded!!!
@Derrick. Would you just keep your mouth shut! All this c**p about all whites being cracker, klanner racists is getting old. You hate whites as much as you claim all whites hate blacks. You are a bigot. You never have anything constructive to say.
Another cracker, klanner, and racist white supremacist, who is trying to silence me!!!
IT AIN’T GONNA WORK, lizzy gal!!
You caucasoids hate to talk about racism and white supremacy because you are GUILTY of everything I post about you racist hater heathens!
EVERYTHING I say is CONSTRUCTIVE, with facts and Truth; therefore, DEAL WITH IT!!! You yankees don’t hate us because we are BLACK; you hate yourselves because you are PALE and COLORLESS!!!
You got the right picture up of yourself…YOU’RE A d**n DOG, A BEAST, and a CREATURE!!! Remember, you DOGS used to walk on all fours until the Black Afrikans taught you how to stand UPRIGHT! Remember, you BEASTS used to eat raw meat, until the Black Afrikans taught you how to cook it! Remember, you CREATURES still eat your meat with blood running out of it!!!
YOU ARE CANNIBALS!!!
BARK! BARK! m***a/FUKA
love your truth brother, keep up the good work. If you keep spreading the truth, black people will have to listen at some point, because it’s not that far off from the REAL war we will fight at home, and we are already behind in our strategy to fight.
My brother, we need some strong warriors, who ain’t scared of the Truth or die for it!
I’m old skool, and was part of the BURN BABY BURN REVOLUTION. We didn’t sing and march, WE SHALL OVERCOME SOMEDAY, we were Rebels!!!
Good looking out, js!!!
His girlfriend said he had a gun and the incident is on video. Must be racism. Idiots.
Actually they’re SPECULATING he told his gf that. The article ACTUALLY says she only insinuated that after leading questions from investigators. Let’s get all the facts before we break out the sarcasm kids.
You big dumb, stupid cracker! THAT’S A d**n LIE! If you listen to REAL TALK radio, that statement was fabricated by the cracker pigs!!!
They only thing that video shows is the two caucasoid boys being set free; while they kept the Black man. Where is the video INSIDE THE d**n CAR; that’s the BILLION DOLLAR QUESTION?
How can you have a gun on you when you were searched TWICE? You caucasoids are some NIGorant crackers! Anything a cracker says; y’all beLIEve it, especially when it involves Black people.
IT IS RACISM because those racist klanner crackers KILLED THIS BROTHER because he was BLACK!
YOU’RE THE IDOT…YOU DUMB JOCK!!! I’M SICK OF YOU STUPID MUTAH/FUKAS!!!
Doesn’t seem possible to me…but who am I…..
Everybody knows the city of Jonesboro is prejudice..and how the h**l he shoot himself in the right temple and he is left handed??? You would think when y’all released the cornor report y’all would’ve said y’all found gun residue on his hand but noooo all y’all talked about was the drugs y’all found in his system GTFOH..so sad and so young RIL
HOUSTON WE’VE GOT A PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@ Tiffany
I invite you to m********e with whatever hand you do not favor. At some point you will likely get the job done.
@ Derrick- I know you are really smart because you are not afraid to look stupid. I applaud your use of capital letters and racist phrases. I suspect that you are a 15 year old white male from Idaho- otherwise your poor grammar, faulty reasoning, and general animalistic behavior seems to far over the top to come from an actual human capable of reason.
The police did not have any reason to kill this man. There were witnesses. There are lab results that verify the story. The fact that they searched him twice and did not find a gun does not mean there was no gun. It likely means that the gun was deep in his r****m (the part of your body that you call “my happy hole”).
And who are you coming on here with your ignorance? The police have not had a reason to kill lots of black people that they have arrested! They had reason to arrest the 2 white boys and didn’t! So needing a reason is not the issue here. You can go talk your nonsense somewhere else, I am not buying it! It’s funny that the video just happend to malfunction for a period of 3 minutes and this is when the young man was MURDERED!!! I’m from this area of the country, I know what these white people will do! STOP KILLING BLACKS FOR NO REASON! WE ARE TIRED OF THIS TYPE OF THING HAPPENING IN OUR COMMUNITY! IT’S RIDICULOUS!!!
It’s called white priviledge, cracker mentality! They know what their kind is doing is wrong but they try and justify it anyway, bcuz they’re evil and twisted. Add to it sickasses like Dave who loves to be on Black sites responding like a cracker does. You are right, cops kill Blacks especially, all the time just because they can…Once again evidence proves it, but malfunctioning video for several minutes? Yea Ok…Long overdue for racist police and racist crackers or whatever they are now be the targets!
The police and white mobs throughout the history of this country have had no reason to kill Blacks and other minorities (especially considering that Black people are the only people that did not voluntarily immigrate to this country), but yet and still it is continuing to be done.
Witnesses – there have been witnesses to several crimes over the course of several different investigations and/or prosecutions that have either turned out to be falsifications or recanted. 2/3 of mis-identifications have been by witness misperception.
Lab results – there were no tests done on the victim that would prove it to be a suicide or homicide via the memo that was sent out in 2001. Had a GSR test be done, it likely would prove that there would be no proof that he fired that gun.
Faulty equipment – the equipment seemed to be functioning just fine before and after the incident, so why only for those 3 minutes? Something’s fishy there.
Before you continue your justification on this matter, please take into account the irrational and hostile, prejudicial and discriminatory behavior that has become a namesake of the police, not to mention this country.
Dave –
You are an idiot. I’m white, and I call you an idiot. Since when have the police stopped injuring and killing blacks just because they “don’t have a reason” as you say? Both the justice and law enforcement systems are stacked against blacks. All it takes is a little research to see that.
Blacks are much, much, much more likely than whites to get the death penalty for the same crime. There has always been a disproportionate number of blacks on death row. You can look up statistics from any agency that “you” deem to be acceptable and you will find that to be true.
You think the video just happened to malfunction at the time the kid died? You think that they patted him down twice and didn’t find a gun? Or that he held the gun in his r****m and they didn’t say that they found it and that it was covered in feces?
They haven’t found any gun residue, and I sure would like to see you reach inside your r****m while your hands were handcuffed behind you, as if that were possible.
I don’t care for Derrick’s remarks either. They are way over the top, but I’d rather see something coming from real feelings than some bullshit coming from someone denying the truth because he or she just doesn’t want to look at it.
I knew you were a caucasoid just by reading your DUMB posts!
I don’t give a d**n what you or anybody else thinks about my comments, as long as, I know I am speaking FACTS and TRUTH!
YOU WEAK CAUCASOIDS CAN’T STAND THE TRUTH!!!
My Dad always told me…’THE TRUTH IS LIKE AN ATOMIC BOMB…IT’S A KILLER!!!
I’m no more ashamed of being white than you are of being black. The difference is – you are a bigot. You are filled with rage and hate – it’s got you so bad that you can’t even see yourself. You just assume every white person hates blacks. It’s easier for you to view the world that way. But then, you seem to hate Mexicans and Asians and everyone on the planet who isn’t black.
You’re just a mouth flapping hate, Derrick. If you were a kind and respectful human being, then what you have to say would mean something to me. Your thoughts about my comments would mean something.
But you’re just a hate machine. So, go on and knock yourself out. You are now on ignore.
Elizabeth you’re post was on point!
oops typo “your” lol
Dave why don’t you shoot yourself in the head because you are clearly nuts!
You crackers HATE to see a Black man, like me speak the Truth! You hate to see a Black man like me, who tells it like it is! You DUMB NIGorant caucasoids are really STUPID…and you know it!!!
You are the second PALE THANG, that has accused me of being a caucasoid! Do you creatures really beLIEve you are intelligent? As far as, I’m concerned; you yankees are the DUMBEST beasts around the globe.
JUST LOOK AT YOUR ANIMALISTIC BEHAVIOR TOWARD BLACK MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
Like I said before; you ‘planters and agents’ come on these Black sites to promote your STUPIDITY and NIGorance.
I don’t have time for your cave-like mentality. Remember, you heathens are the ones who practiced b*********y!!! NOW, GO STICK YOUR little peter INSIDE YOUR DOG’S a*s!!!
You DUMB albino mutant!!! You’re a DISGRACE to the Black hue-man culture!
People are sentenced to prison for cruelty to animals. White cops are set free after killing Blacks. Something is wrong with that picture. Since President Obama has been in office, there’s be a lot of hate crimes against Blacks. The police officers are having a field day in arresting, beating and killing Blacks because they know they’re not going to be found guilty even though they are guilty. They’re showing the Blacks that they are still in charge no matter who’s in the White House. They are trying to bring the 60 ‘s back……..killing Blacks! Blacks killing Blacks are just ridiculous…..we need to come together and stop this nonsense!
The truth is that “idiots” have been given a leg up in our society and they have proven their willingness to use and display their vicious, twisted, malicious, murderous, dishonest and destructive minds “collectively” or in cahoots to hinder and harm you. Then they look open eyed and “white faced”, claiming to be innocent of malice, when the sarcasm and proximity scream injustice! In THEM and ALL who use violence to acheive their goals, America is becoming symbolized as The Ugly and Unjust!
The officers is lying, the proof is the story they are telling…The point that the officres searched him twice and the officers themselves didnt find a gun, just weed.They handcuffed the guy and put him in the police car..Their is no way the officers are going to miss anything on a person they search once, let alone being searched twice…..
These officers need to find out where this gun appear from…that they used to kill him..which I am sure they know……and it wasnt a poilce issued weapon…Sounds like a plant….that they kept with them to do dirt with….Were are the tapes that the officers had in their vehicle at that time…..theirs more going on with this killing…Keep digging it will come out.
Its always some flaky ex cop or wanna be talking bout codes when we are all humans on this planet…and for that matter being a police officer is a public servant job…but they are far from peace officers…and not elected..which I constitutionally required for that title..but anyway misnomer and this is about money when it comes to day to day revenue collectors…spare me all the code and law enforcment talk u sound like u have a supiriority complex…and those of u saying it as the victims own fault can rot in your own conscious hells……good nite
All this talk and no action. Typical.
Isure would like to know the mayor of that town. I also would like to know who is the state, city,and federal representative of Jonesboro, Arkansas. You vote for these people and you should require justice out of them. Only some stupid racist would think that we believe that this young man shot himself. BBlack people are not the only one that should be disturbed by this murder. If you hold up for the devil then you are the devil. Pray and watch who you vote for.
A young man has lost his life, everyone should be upset with this.
Suicide handcuffed? Why now? Why not much before now? Telephone calls @ the back of a police car is that what I’m understanding or were they saying the back of their own car? Parts of the tape missing. Wow! Why does anyone even argue this the odds of all this stuff is like walking out of publix and bumping into the moon. This is insulting and someone should be imprisoned for it or worse.