A Coroner’s report obtained exclusively by NBC News directly contradicts the police version of how a 22-year-old black man died in the back seat of a Louisiana policecruiser earlier this year -- but still says the man, whose hands were cuffed behind his back, shot himself.
In a press release issued March 3, the day he died, the Louisiana State Police said Victor White III apparently shot himself in an Iberia Parish police car. According to the police statement, White had his hands cuffed behind his back when he shot himself in the back.
But according to the full final report of the Iberia Parish coroner, which was released nearly six months later and obtained exclusively by NBC News, White was shot in the front, not the back. The bullet entered his right chest and exited under his left armpit. White was left-handed, according to family members. According to the report, the forensic pathologist found gunshot residue in the wound, but not the sort of stippling that a close-range shot can sometimes produce. He also found abrasions on White’s face.
And yet, despite the contradictions – and even though White’s hands were never tested for gunpowder residue – the Iberia Parish coroner still supported the central contention of the initial police statement issued back in March. Dr. Carl Ditch ruled that White shot himself, and declared his death a suicide.
we used to when kids laugh at then to us jokes depicting the absurity of police murdering Black men. like shooting themselves in the back 6 times with a repeating rifle, or the guy they found in the river wrapped in chains an the cop says "just like them trying to steal more than the can carry".
well i'm 65 now not in my teens and uninformed none of this is funny never was but things like this circulated back in the day and now for my first time it's in the news and just if not more absurd as the things we heard as jokes that now i believe to be true, again comedy brings it home and the truth shines through, just not on me and my peers at that time.
In a press release issued Monday, Dr. Ditch said that based on the findings of the pathologist and investigators, it was possible for White “due to his body habitus” to manipulate the gun to shoot himself in the chest.
White’s father doesn’t believe it. He doesn’t believe that a man with a new baby, a girlfriend and a job had the motive for suicide, and he doesn’t think any version of events in which White shot himself, whether in the front or back, is physically possible.
“You can’t make me understand,” said Rev. Victor White II, 53, a Baptist minister and former substance abuse counselor. “You can’t make me understand how my son took his left hand, when he was handcuffed behind the back, and shot himself. I don’t believe a thing they’re saying at this point.”
this is why those in Ferguson don't trust the White establishment to reveal the truth about Mike Browns murder, like this guy in LA. in the face of fact they are still pushing their version which exonerates the homicidal cops that murdered him, it is the same across the nation that those who impose say their is no racial divide or racism. remember the words from The Usual Suspects,
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn't exist" , back in the 60's White people were upset that Black activist called some of them "Blue eyed Devils", well looks like it would hold up through the decades and today as it did then, all are not murderous racist but it seems those in charge are were they elected and hired like in Ferguson or was it a surprise to some???
