I'm speechless......this is really bad...

[AntivaxHunters]

I'm completely speechless.
I don't even know what to say about this ...

Article https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bettersten-wade-dexter-jackson-mississippi-police-missing-rcna121697]

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ACKSON, Miss. — Seven months of searching for her lost son brought Bettersten Wade to a dirt road leading into the woods, past an empty horse stable and a scrapyard.

The last time she’d seen her middle child, Dexter Wade, 37, was on the night of March 5, as he left home with a friend. She reported him missing, and Jackson police told her they’d been unable to find him, she said.

It wasn’t until 172 excruciating days after his disappearance that Bettersten learned the truth: Dexter had been killed less than an hour after he’d left home, struck by a Jackson police car as he crossed a nearby interstate highway. Police had known Dexter’s name, and hers, but failed to contact her, instead letting his body go unclaimed for months in the county morgue.

Now it was early October, and Bettersten had finally been told where she could find her son.

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[Laffy Kat]

1. I read this article earlier on my browser.

As a mother I was absolutely heartbroken for this poor woman and her family. The callous racism is astounding. I hope she sues the police.

[redqueen]

2. That poor man, this poor mother

Those subhuman cops

[JoseBalow]

25. We need to abolish qualified immunity and go after police unions, for starters

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. PrOtEcTiNg and SeRvInG. Let's give them lots more money so they can train better.

lol jk fuck the police

[SamKnause]

6. Fucking scum.

[90-percent]

7. Future MAGA heros

In the mold of vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse. Soon these cops will open for djt at his nazi rallys.

-90% Jimmy

[MustLoveBeagles]

8. Awful

[BigOleDummy]

9. Depraved....

... even for MIssissippi.

[ZonkerHarris]

10. ACAB

[carburyme]

12. I have no words...

Just Unbelievable

[ZonkerHarris]

42. correct, cops need to do much better and be less corrupt.

[AntivaxHunters]

13. FTP

NWA was right..

[chouchou]

11. Did I wake up..

..in a Forth world country, that the authorities can feel like doing decent actions or not.
"I Ran over a man this morning"
"Oh...what's for lunch?"

That poor mother. sad is me..

[AllaN01Bear]

39. we have been in a fourth world country for years . but i feel your pain.

[spike jones]

14. Mississippi Goddamn- Nina Simone.

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. Got to be a cover-up by the police, presumably to protect the police officer

They had identified the body by fingerprints (it's possible the initial identification from the prescription medicine wasn't held strong enough on its own, but fingerprints are definite). With the fingerprints, they knew they had to contact the next of kin, but didn't - leaving one voice mail is not enough. So they're negligent there, and you might argue that from that point on they're trying to cover up a death (apart from the humanity of letting his mother know what happened, an inquest for a death like that needs a timeline of where he had been, and why he was walking on that road).

In the UK, covering up a death is a criminal offence; I'd expect it is in the USA too. Someone in the police should be fired, and fearing a criminal conviction. Quite likely more than one. Well, in a jurisdiction where justice happens, anyway.

[yardwork]

16. I hope she can sue them out of existence.

Just shocking.

[a kennedy]

20. Exactly

[cstanleytech]

17. WTH not let her know? It's not like the police would be found liable for the death since her son was

crossing a six lane highway so I honestly don't see a single damn reason not to let her know.

[a kennedy]

18. Get an attorney and sue their ass for millions.

🤬 🤬 🤬

[malaise]

19. Murder most foul

Damn they hate us

[FBaggins]

22. How do you draw that conclusion?

It isn't legal for a pedestrian to cross a six-lane freeway (with or without the reported PCP and Meth in his system).

I can't see how the event could be anything but an accident. It's the disposal of the body without informing the family despite knowing his identity that is so far outside the bounds of reason... but that's hardly murder.

[malaise]

24. Not literally

The cover up has pissed me off - vile scum.

[JoseBalow]

26. What if the pig swerved to deliberately hit the victim?

Could that be seen as something other than an accident?

Racist POS sees an opportunity to run down a black man who is someplace he shouldn't be, affording some plausible deniability by claiming it's an accident. Impossible to imagine?

Maybe he did, or maybe he didn't, but I'm not as generous as some others are to give a cop the benefit of any doubts.

[FBaggins]

29. Ignoring the ridiculousness of the premise... have you ever seen a car that hit a deer at highway speeds?

I assure you that the police in MS have. "The pig" would be taking the chance of dying himself to choose to hit an adult male.

Even if we assume that the corporal saw an unlit pedestrian crossing the highway in time to avoid a collision (highly unlikely at night traveling 70-75 mph on a 6-lane highway)... and even if we assume that he could tell the person's race in those conditions at all... we have to imagine him having so much racial animosity that he's willing to risk his own life to mow down this guy?

Simply not plausible. Low-beam headlights at highway speeds are good for a bit over one second of travel distance. That's not one second of decision time... it's one second to collision. Travel with other vehicles is safe because they're lit and traveling at comparable speeds and in the same direction (so you have far more time to react in most scenarios). But you can't see a pedestrian (absent reflective gear, etc.) until your lights hit them.

Normal perception/reaction time for a good driver would eat over half of the distance the headlights can illuminate. Stopping distance for most cars is double that.

[JoseBalow]

30. That's a lot of gymnastics just to give "the corporal" a veneer of doubt

All I'm willing to extend him is the benefit of deez nutz
(perhaps the victim's family may feel more generous)

[ecstatic]

32. So you think the cause of death was exactly as stated by the vile liars

who covered up his death for months? Really?

At a certain point, people have to stop blindly accepting every ridiculous lie cops say when covering their own asses.

If the accident was what was described, and the guy was really drugged up, why the fuck didn't they do things the right way? They purposely covered up his death. It took a new fucking employee to expose the situation. He will probably be killed soon as well for going against the blue wall of silence/corruption, and of course, his death will be blamed on someone who had nothing to do with it.

[Warpy]

21. Some cops are going to have very hard questions to answer

about someone they considered worthless because he was well known to them, whether or not they covered up a deliberate act or if his death had been accidental, and why they assumed that someone with an extensive criminal history was incapable of forming human attachments to a mother, a partner, and his children and whether they were entitled to know what happened to him. Or maye it was just a series of balls dropped by an overworked and underfunded system, Jackson being a place where even clean water is a luxury.

Peoople need to answer those questions. His family deserves to know.

[AverageOldGuy]

23. As the old detective said to Jack NIcholson's character in the last scene from the movie "Chinatown"

"Forget it, Jake. It's Mississippi."

[Stuart G]

27. One of the most awful stories about police that I have ever read. K and R

[Evolve Dammit]

28. Sue the PD for EVERYTHING they have. All of it. Southern racism is ongoing domestic terrorism.

[ecstatic]

31. Didn't think my opinion could drop any lower

This is like 1950s era cruelty and corruption. What in the fuck. And to bury him in a prison yard???!!! WTF???!!!

The first half of the article I was thinking this is some disgusting, racist Jim Crow level bullshit, then an alternative motive for their disgusting behavior was revealed:

Days passed without a word. On March 14, Bettersten called the Jackson Police Department to report him missing.

The decision to call the police was difficult for Bettersten. She did not trust them. In 2019, her 62-year-old brother died after a Jackson officer slammed him to the ground. The officer was convicted of manslaughter but is appealing.

Her family filed a wrongful death lawsuit accusing Jackson officers of excessive force and attempting to cover up their actions, and accusing the city of failing to properly train and supervise the officers. The city has denied the claims and said it isn’t liable for what happened. The officers’ lawyer said they acted responsibly and lawfully. A federal judge dismissed some of Bettersten’s claims; others remain pending in state court.

Now the question is, was he really hit by accident or was he murdered on purpose?

[intheflow]

36. Sounds like it could be retribution for the lawsuit.

Or perhaps they downplayed it because of the lawsuit. Either way, I hope she sues them back to kindergarten.

[progressoid]

33. And then she had to pay $250 to the coroner to get his body back.

[jxla]

34. His body is still in that pauper's grave

https://www.gofundme.com/f/dexter-alex-wade

[KS Toronado]

35. Just when I think I've heard it all about how uncivilized some cops can be

to their fellow human beings, something like this comes along and blows my mind.

[pansypoo53219]

37. well, missippi, blacks don't count there.

[LymphocyteLover]

38. Absolutely horrifying. needs to be criminal prosecution for this

[hadEnuf]

40. This is what eventually happens when Republicans are put in charge of anything.

n/t

[liberalla]

41. This is hard for me to comprehend the thinking behind keeping it secret.

WTH?
I feel for that mother and what she's had to endure. The pain, the mystery, and then learning the truth! Just the lowest, the worst, the blatant inhumanity and disregard...

I know it's MS, but they had to know this would blow up in their faces!