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    Rasheem Carter (25) found dead after telling mother white men were chasing him; police say there is no foul play

    Full story here: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...reas-rcna74651

    A Black man was found dead after he told his mother he was being chased. Police said there's ?no reason? to suspect foul play.

    The family of a Black man who was found dead in Mississippi after he warned his mother that he was being chased by white men hurling racial slurs demanded a federal investigation Monday after local authorities said they had ?no reason? to suspect foul play in the man's death.

    Rasheem Carter, 25, was reported missing Oct. 2 after his mother said he had sought help from police and frantically called her to say white men in three trucks were pursuing him. That was the last day Carter's family heard from him.

    On Nov. 2, authorities said they found his remains in a wooded area south of Taylorsville, Mississippi. In a statement on Facebook a day later, the Smith County Sheriff?s Department said it had "no reason to believe foul play was involved" though the case was under investigation.

    On Monday, Carter?s loved ones and their attorney Ben Crump slammed local authorities for stonewalling them for more than four months and for the initial determination, saying they believe Carter was the victim of a brutal hate crime.

    "This was a nefarious act. This was an evil act," Crump said at a news conference. "Somebody murdered Rasheem Carter, and we cannot let them get away with this."

    Crump urged the Justice Department on Monday to take over the investigation as a civil rights case as he revealed photographs of Carter's skeletal remains, including his skull and some vertebrae.

    ?This was not a natural death," Crump said. "This represents a young man who was killed."

    Crump told reporters that he believes Carter's head was severed from his body and that his spinal cord was found in another location away from his head.

    "There is nothing natural about this. It screams out for justice," Crump said. "What we have is a Mississippi lynching."

    Carter's front teeth were missing from the top and bottom rows, which Carter's family said could indicate that he was assaulted before he died.

    It's unclear what prompted authorities to search the wooded area or what led them to determine initially that foul play was not suspected. The Smith County Sheriff?s Department did not reply to requests for comment.

    The Laurel Police Department, which put out Carter's missing person's report, worked on the case early on after Carter's family asked for assistance, Chief Tommy Cox told NBC News.

    But Cox said that Carter had not contacted his department for help before he went missing, and that the Laurel Police Department handed its investigation over to Smith County once it was clear it was outside of its jurisdiction.

    Cox said his department pulled some phone records and may have interviewed some of Carter's co-workers, but he declined to elaborate further.

    "We tried to put ourselves in their shoes. It didn?t hurt us to do a little bit of work on it," Cox said. "We did what we considered to be the right thing. And then when it became obvious which jurisdiction would be the lead, we turned it over to them."

    The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, which is assisting the sheriff in its probe, said Carter?s autopsy was completed on Feb. 2 but declined to comment further, citing the ?open and ongoing investigation.? The FBI is not currently involved in the case, an agency spokesperson said.

    Three members of Carter's family said authorities told them wild animals may have torn his body apart.

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    So how do they think he died then? I feel awful for his family, I would be beside myself with anger.


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    Of COURSE they're claiming "no foul play". This was a fucking lynching. Lynching not in the sense that they necessarily hung him, but by the definition that this was a mob of white guys killing a black man because he was black. In Mississippi where this shit is considered a favorite racist pastime. The feds BETTER step in on this one.
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    This is either his girlfriend or a family member. Either way, there's a LOT of photos and videos pertaining to this case on her profile. Some are truly sickening and show how horrible the police have been treating his family. In one video, they had gathered to call out for justice and had used sidewalk chalk to write "Rasheem's Life Matters" on the ground. Apparently the sheriff's department not only washed it away with a power hose, but posted a picture of them spraying it away with the caption "Doing some clean up" on social media. These fuckers are sick:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nic B View Post
    So how do they think he died then? I feel awful for his family, I would be beside myself with anger.
    Even if he somehow died from exposure and animals scattered his remains, it wouldnt explain all of his teeth being knocked out from his skull.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Angiebla View Post
    Even if he somehow died from exposure and animals scattered his remains, it wouldnt explain all of his teeth being knocked out from his skull.
    Exactly!
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