Primary SOURCE for this post was the article, A Mother Reported Her Son Missing in March. Police Kept the Truth from Her for Months by Jon Schuppe for NBC News
#DexterWade
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
#Genocide
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Documents provided in response to a FOIA requests show that just before 8 p.m. on Mar 5, #DexterWade was walking across I-55, when a Jackson police SUV driven by an off-duty corporal,” mowed him down. The cop “was not given field sobriety tests. Nor was he cited for any traffic violations.”
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Bettersten’s claims remain "pending in state court.” But I digress… Every time she called, the police they "told her they had no information. It turned out that the Jackson Police Department had the answers all along.
#DexterWade
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
4/8
The cop was convicted of manslaughter." A wrongful death lawsuit was filed "accusing Jackson cops of excessive force & trying to cover up their actions [like they covered up the vehicular homicide of her son] & accusing the city of failing to properly train & supervise officers."
#DexterWade
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#OTD in #History 2023
Mar 05: #DexterWade Killed by Jackson, Mississippi Police Officer
Context: March 5th, 2023, an off-duty cop ran over a 37-yr-old Black American man an hour after he left his mother’s home. The cops covered it up & lied to the man’s mother for 7 months.
#WhiteSupremacy
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Primary SOURCE for this post was the article, A Mother Reported Her Son Missing in March. Police Kept the Truth from Her for Months by Jon Schuppe for NBC News
#DexterWade
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
#Genocide
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
8/8
Documents provided in response to a FOIA requests show that just before 8 p.m. on Mar 5, #DexterWade was walking across I-55, when a Jackson police SUV driven by an off-duty corporal,” mowed him down. The cop “was not given field sobriety tests. Nor was he cited for any traffic violations.”
5/8
Bettersten’s claims remain "pending in state court.” But I digress… Every time she called, the police they "told her they had no information. It turned out that the Jackson Police Department had the answers all along.
#DexterWade
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
4/8
The cop was convicted of manslaughter." A wrongful death lawsuit was filed "accusing Jackson cops of excessive force & trying to cover up their actions [like they covered up the vehicular homicide of her son] & accusing the city of failing to properly train & supervise officers."
#DexterWade
3/8
#OTD in #History 2023
Mar 05: #DexterWade Killed by Jackson, Mississippi Police Officer
Context: March 5th, 2023, an off-duty cop ran over a 37-yr-old Black American man an hour after he left his mother’s home. The cops covered it up & lied to the man’s mother for 7 months.
#WhiteSupremacy
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‼️POLICE‼️LIES & COVER-UPS RUIN TRUST!
This story is heartbreaking and absolutely infuriating!
💔Remembering #DexterWade
Read more:
www.mississippifreepress.org/who-was-the-...
Just tell the truth!
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#DexterWade was hit and killed by a Mississippi officer and those officers buried him in a mass grave behind the Jackson Mississippi jail, never told his family and STILL hasn't reached out to his Mother to even apologize, after she has found his body in said mass grave.
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youtu.be/6K2PqBm1bjE?...
Hundreds of Bodies Discovered Behind Mississippi Jail in Unmarked Graves! youtu.be/JChYJ2SuL6g?... via @YouTube
#Police #Mississippi #UnmarkedGraves #DexterWade #PBSnews
A mother reported her son missing in March. Police kept the truth from her for months.
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.
#DexterWade #BlackLivesMatter #ACAB
