Arresting officers in Chavis Carter case reinstated

theGRIO REPORT - Officers Ron Marsh and Keith Bagget, the two arresting officers present when Chavis Carter was fatally shot on July 28, have returned to work after spending one month on paid administrative leave...

Police memo gives new details, raises fresh questions in Chavis Carter case

Joy-Ann Reid

theGRIO REPORT - Jonesboro, Arkansas police on Wednesday released two new documents that offer significant new details in the case of Chavis Carter -- the 21-year-old Mississippi man who police say shot himself to death in the back of a patrol car where he had been detained -- in handcuffs -- by officers...

Forensic expert calls Chavis Carter suicide 'possible', 'very unlikely'

Joy-Ann Reid

theGRIO REPORT - The medical examiner in the case of Chavis Carter, the 21-year-old Mississippi man who Jonesboro, Arkansas police say fatally shot himself in the head while handcuffed in the back of a patrol car, ruled Carter's death a suicide...

Jonesboro police 'recreate' alleged Chavis Carter handcuffed suicide

Chuck Bartels, Associated Press

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Police in Arkansas released a video reconstruction Tuesday meant to show how a 21-year-old man who was handcuffed behind his back could have shot himself in the head while in the backseat of a patrol car...

Police chief on Chavis Carter: Handcuffed suicide is 'quite easy'

Carrie Healey

theGRIO REPORT - Jonesboro, Arkansas police chief Michale Yates originally admitted that the alleged suicide of Chavis Carter while handcuffed in the back of a police car 'defies logic'...

Chavis Carter case: Dash cam video, autopsy to wait

Joy-Ann Reid

theGRIO REPORT - The FBI will 'monitor' the investigation into Chavis Carter's death, the police chief of Jonesboro, Arkansas has confirmed to theGrio. "They have agreed to monitor and we are sharing all our investigative material with them as we conduct the investigation," Chief Michael Yates told theGrio...

Chavis Carter case: Police chief's past scrutinized

Alexis Garrett Stodghill

theGRIO REPORT - The controversy surrounding the Chavis Carter case has caused the local black community in Jonesboro to question police chief Michael Yates about his department's explanation, and to unearth disturbing details from Yates' past...

Police chief: Handcuffed suicide 'defies logic'

Joy-Ann Reid

theGRIO REPORT - The police chief in the case of a 21-year-old man who officers say shot himself in the head while his hands were cuffed behind his back admits that the scenario "defies logic," but Jonesboro Police Chief Michael Yates stands behind the officers who made the claim...

Forensic expert raises questions about alleged handcuffed suicide

Similoluwa Ojurongbe

theGRIO REPORT - Jonesboro, Arkansas police say a Mississippi man shot himself in the head while handcuffed in the back of a patrol car. Forensic expert, Dr. Michael Baden says that in his decades of work he has never heard of something like that happening...

New details in handcuffed youth's alleged suicide

Joy-Ann Reid

JONESBORO, Ark. -- Chavis Chacobie Carter's death while handcuffed in the back of a patrol car occurred while police detained, and then released, two other men who were with Carter that night...

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Chavis Carter Case

Arresting officers in Chavis Carter case reinstated

Police memo gives new details, raises fresh questions in Chavis Carter case

Forensic expert calls Chavis Carter suicide 'possible', 'very unlikely'

Jonesboro police 'recreate' alleged Chavis Carter handcuffed suicide

Police chief on Chavis Carter: Handcuffed suicide is 'quite easy'

Chavis Carter case: Dash cam video, autopsy to wait

Chavis Carter case: Police chief's past scrutinized

Police chief: Handcuffed suicide 'defies logic'

Forensic expert raises questions about alleged handcuffed suicide

New details in handcuffed youth's alleged suicide

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