Ben Crump: Mississippi isn’t capable, or more likely, is unwilling to investigate when a Black man is brutally killed. It's time for the DOJ to step in.
After his second and final visit to the police department seeking help, on Oct. 2 he called his mother, warning her that his phone battery was dangerously low. He dropped a pin to his location so a family friend from a neighboring town could pick him up and get him home safely. When the friend arrived a few hours later, Rasheem was nowhere to be found.The last image of Rasheem, eerily caught on athe afternoon he went missing, appears to show him running, partially clothed and muddy.
On Nov. 2 — a month to the day that he went missing — Rasheem Carter’s skeletal remains were found dismembered and scattered in the woods just a few miles from the Taylorsville Police Department where he twice sought help. His skull was severed in half. Despite those disturbing facts, police have continued to claim that no foul play is suspected.There should be no doubt that this was an act of murder, a hate crime — and a Mississippi lynching.
Given the recent history of so-called investigations into the violent deaths of Black men in Mississippi, police inaction is not a surprise. According to a, there have been at least eight suspected lynchings of Black men and teens in the state since 2000. Most were brushed aside as suicides despite evidence to the contrary, and when law enforcement was pressed, they simply responded that they couldn’t comment.
The U.S. Department of Justice must investigate the circumstances surrounding Rasheem’s death. There are most certainly clues, and we need the highest levels of law enforcement to administer justice. Not just for Rasheem, but for the countless Black men and boys who have been victims of white supremacy. For
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