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.

Pastor Refuses To Do Funeral Service For Lesbian Who Shot Self While Cleaning Gun

Outrage, and rightfully so, after a Pastor refused to continue a funeral service for a Lesbian because of photos showing her kissing her wife. Nowhere in the Think Progress story is a reason for a 33 year old to have died suddenly. The answer is buried in the story at this link. Social media has taken the Pastor and the church to task for demeaning and insulting the service and the friends and family who had gathered to attend. Yet, hardly anyone has pointed out that she died while cleaning her gun.

I can think of dozens upon dozens of postings on social media about how yet another "backwards", "gun lover" idiot shot himself (it always seems to be a man) to death while cleaning their gun. The righteousness in pointing out other people's misfortune, especially when it comes to gun owners, boarders on and sometimes teeters over into morbid gleefulness. Or perhaps, perverse satisfaction is a better phrase.

(Photo by Nick M; under Fair Use)

Yet, is the idea of a left-wing, Lesbian gun owner something that cannot be reconciled? I don't think so. When reading through most of the articles about this outrage and the accompanying social media comments, however, one would be hard pressed to find mention of how she died. I think it is that it would screw up the narrative of yet another backwards church refusing services for homosexuals. Throw in that she was a gun owner and that she accidently killed herself while cleaning her gun and too many people, both on the left and right of the spectrum, would probably have a "system's overload". They couldn't reconcile two seemingly different narratives because that's not what they have been hard-wired for.

This appears to one of those "have your cake and eat it to" situations. Simple narratives would like to focus on the outrage of a Pastor refusing funeral services on the basis of sexual orientations and leave the whole gun owner cleaning a loaded gun out of it. Simple narratives would like to focus on the gun owner cleaning a loaded gun and keep the church, Pastor and sexual orientation out of it.


 

Look My Eye Socket Is Shattered

No, you lying scum, your eye socket is not shattered.

 

Children's Deaths By Car Accident Not As "Sexy" As By School Shootings

Forward:
"Sexy" is a term used by news organizations describing something that is:
"3) interesting, exciting or trendy".
"Apples and Oranges" is a phrase that is often used as a crushing blow to an analogy when in fact, "denigrating an analogy by accusing it of comparing apples and oranges is, in and of itself, comparing apples and oranges."

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When it comes to children's (usually defined as 17 years old or younger) deaths in school shootings, almost everybody gets wildly and irrationally emotional. Parents, educators and especially craven politicians' reactions to school shootings, whether they realize it or not, are fodder for both the Mainstream Media (MSM) and countless bloggers because the subject and reactions are just too darn "sexy" to pass up. When it comes to children's deaths in vehicular accidents, the reaction is, well, uh, fairly muted. In fact, children's deaths in vehicular accidents are so "un-sexy" that when one types in a Google search for, "politicians call for stricter laws on children deaths in car crashes", not only does one get over 861 million hits, but most of those hits are about children's deaths by school gun violence! A true "what the hell" if there ever was one. Apparently not only does the search parameters on Google think the shooting deaths are more "sexy", they also show that the "apples and oranges" argument is alive and well as, "comparing apples and oranges is, in and of itself, comparing apples and oranges."

Why is this so significant? Let us look at the numbers. Between 1980 and 2012, the number of people killed in shootings at school is 297, which includes mostly children, but also adults. The number of children killed in vehicular accidents is estimated at more than 51,000 for the same period. The numbers are so drastically different that the free-for-all reactions that happen in the MSM and in political houses across the country over school shootings show that the topic is not only "sexy" but "damn sexy" as well. Looking at the numbers alone, one would think that the reactions should be diametrically opposite, but, of course, they are not. Why?

I mean, look, even when typing a Google search for, "number of children deaths by accident in home per year", and one still gets trafficked to sites about children dying in school shootings by the multitude, one is forced to admit that something is wrong in how we are dealing with the deaths of children. As school shootings over the years have resulted in schools resembling prisons more and more, despite the fact that the odds of one's child being killed is so extremely rare, and the improvements to car safety lag so woefully behind in comparison, one is again forced to ask: why?

While after a school shooting it is now de rigueur for a parent (more often than not the father) to begin a media blitzkrieg condemning lax gun control laws before their child's body is even cold; there is no corresponding reaction to the daily toll of over three child deaths in vehicular accidents. Are there mass condemnations or protests in front of General Motors headquarters? No one suggests or even wants to put the head of Ford Motor Company's head on a pike and parade it down the street to the jeering cries of a multitude of people. Although that reaction would certainly be a "sexy" news item in the eyes of the MSM, it just never happens. In fact, the gap between reality and Americans' perception of horrible, out of control gun violence prompted the Pew Research Center to publish a reality check entitled, "Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware".

When it comes to gun control, there are extremists on both sides of the issue and they both can outdo the other when it comes to outrageous behaviors, which are, of course, imminently "sexy" to both the MSM and the craven politicians. However, when it comes to somehow really curbing the death toll of children in vehicular accidents, there are no corresponding extremist positions and not really even a middle one. The best we have is Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), with no such opposing group such as Fathers For Soused Driving existing or even contemplated. MADD is a good group to have around, obviously, because a lot of the deaths of children in vehicular accidents are caused by drunk drivers.

Among the many things about the United States of America, love it or leave it, that make it so damn interesting, yes even "sexy", are the many inconsistencies and incongruities. From religion to mass entertainment or political discourse to sexual mores, the USA is a blooming basketful of apples and oranges. If one stops to think about it, one might wonder how the country has survived for as long as it has. Yet, while the continued overreaction to the woefully few children's deaths at school because of guns is undermining the education process itself and turning schools into prisons, any meaningful change in vehicular safety for the sake of "our children" is condemned to the "non-sexy" well of sickening silence.
 

GUN/CLIMATE Control

A well regulated Climate being necessary to the 

security of a free Earth, the right of Mother Nature to 

keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.


(photo: source unknown, taken at Sydney, Australia)