Bettersten Wade’s search for her adult son ended when she discovered that an officer had run him over — and without telling her, authorities buried him in a pauper’s field.
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Not to excuse those fascists, but a simpler explanation is just lack of communication. Some incompetent somewhere didn’t bother with part of their job, and everyone else assumed it was done
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.
Odd coincidence that this happened to a family that’s put a cop behind bars. How often does stuff like this happen anyway?
Our firm took a civil case (wrongful death. the cop ran a stoplight, no lights no sirens, not responding to a call. killed a mom and two kids.) against a police department a few decades ago. Every employee of the firm had to pay about 10 grand in bribes to the cops in the towns where they lived before they stopped getting pulled over for nothing. Yeah, it’s a real honorable profession.
That is so fucked up!
This is America
Don’t catch you slippin’ nowI’m so tired of Enforcers choosing the most expensive option for the taxpayers.
Yeah, who in their right mind would cross a six lane interstate highway? He was playing Frogger with his life.
Look, not even getting into the cause of his death, it’s extremely fucked up that they didn’t attempt to contact family of the deceased after he died, and even covered it up and had it from his mother after she approached them for information.
You can say it was his own fault all you want, but that changes nothing about how atrocious they handled the whole thing.
I agree with you. I hate cops as much as the next person. Just pointing out that this guy could be nominated for a Darwin Award. It’s hard to blame any driver in this situation.
And if the article were about that, you might have a point. But it’s not. It’s about how the police gave this poor woman the runaround instead of letting her know what happened to her son. And you know that. But you wanted attention and to be edgy. Well, congrats. You got the attention you wanted.
How edgy of you.
What a shitty investigator. It took the new one less than a week to figure it out. I can’t see how this could have possibly happened for any reason other than malice or gross incompetence. Either way both the original investigator and the rest of the department need to be looked into.
I hope very soon police can face the same amount of suffering they dish out to people and families.
If that were to become a reality, they would be no cops. Is that what you want? No cops? Because that sounds nice.
Every time I hear about (more) police violence, I just get stuck thinking about the number of times I’ve been assaulted by patients as a healthcare worker and how I was still required to put their safety above my own if at all possible…including the one that was twice my weight and tried to strangle me.
There seems to be an inverse correlation between fearing for your life and fearing negative repercussions…
Yeah but she literally didn’t even thank them for their service.
His name was Dexter Wade.
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.
Two of her family, wow. Now, I don’t know what the environment is like there, but the son was crossing a highway at night on meth. This one could be… I’m not sure of the word… no bad behavior? Accident? But the lack of identification and contact is absolutely absurd.
Darnella Frazier is the woman who recorded George Floyd’s murder. Her uncle was also killed by police. Recently a man was released and awarded several hundred thousand dollars after spending over a decade in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. After release, he was shot and killed by police. The police are a street gang, legitimized by capital in exchange for capital’s occasionally being allowed to direct the police’s constant stream of violence.
They did identify him. They just didn’t contact her.
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.
Disgusting behaviour.
This behavior is cowardly and disgusting. There’s no excuse.
Also, I didn’t realize we still had “pauper’s fields.” The repeated use of the word “pauper” in this article makes me really uncomfortable. I’m not from the south, so maybe it’s a regional thing? But that term strikes me as antiquated and dehumanizing.
In 2019, her 62-year-old brother died after a Jackson officer slammed him to the ground.
A family having to deal with this much awfulness… it beggars belief.
God Damn Mississippi! What the fuck are you doing?!
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Jfc. That’s was heavy.
Really shitty article.
Just give us the facts without all the dramatization.
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