Handcuffed People Shooting Themselves In The Backseat Of Police Cars

While American police shooting unarmed (mostly black) people gets a lot of coverage and rightfully so, more insidious stories are reported as mere suicides. Over the last several years, at least a dozen (known) people have all died the same way: committing suicide in the backseat of a police car while handcuffed.

All but one used a gun.

I know it seems a bit counterintuitive, yet somehow, through some means unknown, these suspects are able to produce a firearm, after being searched and handcuffed, and shoot themselves dead in the backseat of police cars. That’s what we’re suppose to believe when these stories are “reported” as oppose to coming to some other conclusion.

Starting with a recent example and going back several years, let us look at some of these so-called suicides and note the sickening same series of events and official conclusions. Recently, on July 25th, 2018 in Chesapeake, Virginia, 19 year old Sarah Wilson was handcuffed in the back of a police car and managed to shoot herself to death with a gunshot to the mouth. She was a passenger in a car driven by her boyfriend which was pulled over by police. She was placed in the backseat of a police car and left alone while police struggled with her boyfriend. “‘She was handcuffed, and she managed to put a revolver in her mouth while handcuffed. That’s what the investigator told me last night,” the dead woman’s mother Dawn Wilson told an ABC news station. “In all of her life I have never known of her to shoot a gun, own a gun, or even hold a gun’”.

On August 25th, 2017, Xavier McMullen, 17, of Akron died of a gunshot wound to the head while sitting handcuffed in the backseat of police car. The old firearm missed during a search, yet again. Amazing isn’t it? His mother, Lisa Carswell, stated the obvious, “I mean, how did he get in the back of the cruiser with a gun, and how did he have that much time to do this? And it’s been more than a week since it happened and no one from the police department has told me anything, or even offer condolences.” Cause of death: suicide.

In March of 2014, Victor White III, aged 22, was shot to death while handcuffed in the backseat of police car. You guessed it! He produced another one of those dang ‘hidden guns’ that police across the country seem to have the hardest time finding. The cop’s account claims that White III was uncooperative when they were getting him out of the patrol car and produced a gun whereupon he shot himself in the back and later died. The new wrinkle in this case is that the autopsy report was released. It, of course, contradicts the police description of what happened, including the fact that White III was not shot in the back, but in the chest! Remember he was handcuffed with his hands behind him. Also of note is the startling finding that his death was a suicide as opposed to an ‘accident’.

But wait! There’s more!

On December 5th, 2012, a high school student in Houston, Texas managed to shoot himself while handcuffed in the backseat of a police car. In fact, in 2012, there were 4 such “incidents” in a span of 5 months. On August 8th, in Mobile, Alabama, a 51 year old male suspect, who had been searched, handcuffed and placed in the backseat of a police car, managed to produce a gun and shoot himself, but survived. Also, on August 8th, 2012, in Anderson, Indiana, a 17 year old male suspect, who had been searched, handcuffed and placed in the backseat of a police car, somehow “committed suicide” by strangling himself with the seat belt. Yes, you read that correctly. Police said the teenager managed to get his cuffs from behind himself and then used the seat belt to hang himself.

On July 29th, 2012, in Jonesboro, Arkansas, 21 year old Chavis Carter, after being searched twice, handcuffed and placed in the backseat of a police car, managed to produce a gun and shoot himself in the head. The police were helpful enough to make and release a video showing how such a thing could happen. Easy, they say! The case received fairly wide Mainstream Media (MSM) coverage at the time, but then slowly faded away.

Even in a case where a suspect may have actually shot themselves while handcuffed in the backseat of a police car, the obfuscation by police is apparent. In Austin, Texas, 19 year old Zachary Anam, shot himself with a firearm on January 8th, 2017 after the cop driving him to jail was alerted (by Anam) that he had a gun to his head. The cop pulled the car over and jumped out, calling for back-up. Five minutes later a shot rang out. The video will “never be released”. However, last February, the cops released over an hour of audio. It’s hard not to notice how the article is slanted toward just how incompetent the cops have been while frisking people over the last several years.

In all these cases, each police department promised to review their arrest procedures. Really, what? Police have been arresting people, searching them and handcuffing them for, say, hundreds of years. Suddenly, in the second decade of the 21st century, police officers perform (sometimes twice) a search without a finding a loaded gun. Makes perfect bloody sense to me. The second decade of the 21st century — people committing “suicide” while handcuffed in the backseat of police cars.