Chavis Carter

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas police officer who twice frisked a man who authorities say subsequently shot himself to death while handcuffed in a patrol car has returned to active duty but must undergo more training and face an official reprimand. Jonesboro Police Chief Michael Yates said Tuesday that an internal investigation found […]

As the unnerving riddle of just how a left-handed man, both his hands double-handcuffed behind his back while cramped in the back seat of a tight-fisted police cruiser, could even possibly maneuver free enough to hoist a .380-caliber Cobra semiautomatic pistol and fire directly into the right temple yet perplexes, the Rev. Jesse Jackson has […]

Sybil Wilkes discusses today's news headlines including the latest on Rodney King, Chavis Carter, Tropical Storm Isaac, and more on TJMS.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Police in Jonesboro say the girlfriend of a man shot to death in the back of a squad car told an investigator he had called her from the car and said he had a gun. In a four-page statement police offered several new details about the investigation into the July […]

Benjamin Irwin, the attorney for Teresa Carter, mother of Chavis Carter, joined Roland Martin this morning on the Tom Joyner Morning Show. Chavis Carter is the 21-year-old man who police claim committed suicide in the back of a police car while he was handcuffed behind his back. The police have starkly defended this incident and […]

Roland Martin talks with Benjamin Irwin, the attorney for Theresa Carter, mother of Chavis Carter.  The 21-year-old man who police claim committed  suicide in the back of a police car while he was handcuffed behind his back. Benjamin Irwin is managing partner of the Cochran Firm in Memphis, Tennessee.  

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas' state crime lab says it didn't perform gunshot residue testing on a man fatally shot in the head while handcuffed in a patrol car because it doesn't do that kind of analysis on victims of homicides or suicides. Jonesboro Police Chief Michael Yates told The Associated Press that the […]

Sybil Wilkes discusses today's news headlines including the latest on Chavis Carter,  President Obama's campaign, and more.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A man whose hands were cuffed behind him in the back seat of an Arkansas patrol car shot himself in the right temple with a handgun he apparently concealed from arresting officers, according to an autopsy report released Monday that listed the death as a suicide. The state crime lab […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Dozens of supporters have gathered outside the motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was slain to pray for a young man who was fatally shot in the back of an Arkansas patrol car. The vigil Monday night outside the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn., came hours after police released […]

Calls for the FBI to completely take the reins in overseeing the death investigation of Chavis Carter grew by leaps and bounds late Tuesday. The Jonesboro police department released a video recreation of what authorities now contend occurred the night he died, even as they testily admit their probe remains far from conclusive.   The […]

The Jonesboro, Arkansas police continue to deny any wrong-doing in the shooting death of Chavis Carter and now their police chief is supporting them. Police Chief Michael Yates in an interview with CNN, was asked about the ability to shoot oneself while handcuffed, he responded, "For the average person that’s never been in handcuffs, that’s […]