Posted on 03/08/2014 1:49:46 PM PST by nickcarraway
Louisiana state police are investigating the death Victor White, III, 22, who allegedly shot and killed himself while handcuffed in the back of a patrol car, reports The Advocate.
White was allegedly involved in an altercation and when deputies responded to the call they claim to have found illegal drugs on him which lead to his arrest.
White was in handcuffs with his hands behind his back when he was killed, allegedly by his own gun — which conveniently wasn’t found during the search that led to his arrest.
Read more below from The Advocate:
Once at the sheriff’s office, White became uncooperative and refused to exit the deputy’s patrol vehicle, reports CBS affiliate KLFY.
Trooper Stephen Hammons says White produced a handgun and fired one round, striking himself in the back.
White was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.
Sheriff Louis Ackal asked State Police to investigate the incident. State Police-led investigations in deaths involving officers are normal.
“We’re investigating how he got the gun,” Hammons said late Monday. “It’s too early in our investigation to comment further.”
Rev. Raymond Brown, president of National Action Now of New Orleans, said Monday night that his organization is looking into White’s death.
“Something is seriously wrong with this picture,” Brown said.
As previously reported by NewsOne, this isn’t the first time that a handcuffed Black man has died under suspicious circumstances.
In August 2012, Chavis Carter, a 21-year-old Mississippi man, was shot to death in the back of a Jonesboro, Ark. Police Department squad car. Police claim that he pulled the trigger even though he was handcuffed and shot on the right side of the head.
Carter’s mother said her son was left-handed.
Jonesboro Chief of Police Micheal Yates says the scenario is not far fetched at all.
“The average person who has never been in handcuffs, that never been around inmates or people in custody would react exactly the same way you just did: ‘How could that be possible?’ Well, fact of it is, it’s very possible. It’s quite easy,” Jonesboro Chief of Police Micheal Yates told CNN.
This seems to happen a lot:
Unarmed Handcuffed Teen Shoots Himself in the Head While In a Police Car - See more at: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/unarmed-handcuffed-teen-shoots-himself-in-the-head-while-in-a-police-car_122013#sthash.0Zez27ul.dpuf
Another handcuffed young man manages to shoot himself : http://www.salon.com/2012/12/06/another_handcuffed_young_man_manages_to_shoot_himself/
Your elbow, or theirs? 'Hey can you exhale a little bit sir? I'm having trouble searching past your lungs'. :-)
I is a cardinal rule to sweep the cage after every arrest. Bad stuff often gets ditched during the ride to the station. The unarmed kid could have found it in the back seat. Or he had it on him after being declared ‘clean’. He obviously had access. No one shot him....or gave him the gun.
I did, however, gain a reputation on the street for the thoroughness of my gropery. Some bad guys asked for me by name. YEESH! :^0
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You lucky dog, Hope this translates into popularity with the ladies.
Lemme guess, and unregisterd, too.
We have matrons who search the ‘gals’.
We have matrons who search the ‘gals’.
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I was referring to your dating/marital life.
I have two related stories, one was when we were arrested and handcuffed, my friend (unknown to me) ditched a pistol (4 shot derringer), unfortunately a woman had seen him toss it into the ditch and called the station, the cops hadn’t found it during the search.
I’m just glad that he didn’t have the 12” sawed off shotgun that he sometimes wore as a necklace and inside his shirt.
The other was a friend in Conroe, he was arrested and taken to the station where he was cuffed to a bench awaiting booking, he describes being incredibly distressed, why? because he still had his full sized pistol hidden in his pants and knew that at some point, all heck was going to break loose and that the police would down on him with disfavor, and would be especially angry, since they would have been made fools of.
That must have been a long time ago....before the cameras.
Nah....not so much. :^(
A graduate of the Vince Foster school of Arkincide, no doubt.
It was the old days.
I remember quite a bit about the old days, for one thing, cops used to be tougher, in both good ways, and bad ways, they were more brutal and abusive, but they also would walk into a bar by them self to make an arrest, and fight a guy to subdue him, rather than stand off and just shoot him.
One thing that lawyers and lawsuits, and the left ended that was good about the old cops, was that they could size up situations and people, crimes and intent, and make field judgments.
The classic example being some kids doing something that was legally potentially serious beyond what they were aware of in their boyish energies, but that he knew was something that he could stop that night, and that they would never do again.
Another being the tail light stop, smelling strong alcohol, and seeing that the driver was 2 blocks from his house, and sending him straight home.
Nah....not so much. :^(
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Pity.
The is how it goes in Louisanna with the LEOs
You lie, I’ll lie, we all lie.
And they get away with it too dont matter if your White Black or Brown.
Yeah....I remember. 30 years ago. Whole different job now. Both sides.
I think of 30 years ago, as part of the modern times.
Like most things in America, the change was rapid, and started in the early 1970s.
Where did you see they lost the gun that killed him?
Cops should use one of those metal detecting wands that security guards have. I wouldn’t want to go anywhere near the stinky bits of a perp’s anatomy but potentially getting killed over an insufficient search is also not an option.
There was a saying I heard a while back that cops used to be iron men with wooden sticks and now they’re wooden men with iron sticks. I didn’t say it, just heard it. My LAPD bro-in-law would not be thrilled if I dared say it to him.
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