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Jilly_in_VA

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Wed Jul 26, 2023, 02:07 PM Jul 2023

Who Killed Rasheem Carter?

SAMANTHA MICHAELS

On a Saturday in early October, Rasheem Carter, a 25-year-old Black man visiting rural Taylorsville, Mississippi, for work, called his mother in a panic. Some white guys were following him in three trucks, he said, and yelling racial slurs. He feared they would hurt him.

His mother, Tiffany Carter, who lived two hours away in the town of Fayette, stayed on the phone with her son as he went to the Taylorsville police station for help. She heard him tell the officers that he was being followed and ask them for a ride back to his hotel in Laurel, about 20 miles away. She heard an officer tell him no, because Laurel was out of their jurisdiction. She heard someone say he couldn’t stay at the station, that he had to leave.

The next morning, Carter, still frightened, returned to the police. Again, he felt as if the officers brushed him off. His mother sent a friend to pick him up, telling him to wait for the ride. But when the friend arrived, Carter had disappeared.

One month later, law enforcement discovered Carter dead in a wooded area near Taylorsville, on someone’s private property. There were very few remains: only his skull and a small number of his bones, along with his driver’s license and personal belongings like some clothes, a hotel room card, and an iPhone battery. The Smith County sheriff’s department announced the next day that it saw no signs of foul play.

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2023/03/who-killed-rasheem-carter/

"No foul play?" Yeah, right. A person doesn't commit suicide and leave "a few small bones" behind. Mississhitty Goddam.
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Who Killed Rasheem Carter? (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Jul 2023 OP
That whole state would have to... 2naSalit Jul 2023 #1
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