Native American Activist Found Dead in Jail Cell After Traffic Fine Arrest

[villager]

A Native American activist was recently arrested and found dead in jail under conditions very similar to those of Sandra Bland in Texas.

Rexdale W. Henry, 53, was recently found dead inside the Neshoba County Jail in Philadelphia, Mississippi, on July 14th. He had been arrested over failure to pay a minor traffic citation.

Local WTOK, reported that corrections officers reported Henry dead around 10 a.m.. But reports and logs reveal that he was seen alive and perfectly fine only half an hour before that.

Reports say that the state crime lab in Jackson are currently conducting an autopsy. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation also says that they are “looking into” Henry’s death.

But that hasn’t satisfied Henry’s fellow activists, friends and family. Just after funeral services were held on July 19th, in Bogue Chitto, Henry’s body was flown to Florida for an independently-funded autopsy paid for by anonymous donors. They hope that this autopsy will get to the bottom of what really happened.

Syracuse University law professors Janis McDonald and Paula Johnson of the school’s Cold Case Justice Initiative comment that, “at a time when the nation is focused on the terrible circumstances of the brutal death of Sandra Bland, it is critical to expose the many ways in which Black Americans, Native Americans and other minorities are being arrested for minor charges and end up dead in jail cells.”

Henry was a member of the Choctaw tribe. He has been well known in the community and by opponents in law enforcement as a lifelong community activist.

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https://redpowermedia.wordpress.com/2015/07/26/native-american-activist-found-dead-in-jail-cell-after-traffic-fine-arrest/

[irisblue]

1. The more things change

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the more they are the same

[Enthusiast]

32. Looks like it.

[udbcrzy2]

2. The first I've heard of it

Wow, many of these deaths I've never even heard about. I hope they find out what happened to him/them.

[noiretextatique]

3. not again!!!!!!!!

sharing this on facebook. i am in a permanent state of outrage these days

[Unknown Beatle]

35. That's just it.

I'm also pissed off constantly. The police are in a constant state of terrorizing the citizens of the US.

Sometimes, I just have to back away from news and DU for a day to catch my breath and relax.

[Fred Sanders]

71. Along with racist police, the old-age media, the GOP and the NRA are also in a constant state of terrorizing the country.

[kelliekat44]

4. Philadelphia,MS....says it all. nt

[Major Nikon]

10. Subject of the movie, "Mississippi Burning" for those that didn't know

Also not so coincidentally where Saint Ronnie gave his infamous "states' rights" speech, which was (and still is) wingnut codespeak for 'fuck your civil rights'. Also the center of the ancestral home of my tribe, the Choctaw, who now are only a tiny minority after being forcibly relocated on the Trail of Tears.

[artislife]

62. The saddest movement of our people.

Fourth Ojibwa. .we did not walk that trail but our hearts heard the weeping.

[malaise]

5. Is this their latest plan

Take out the activists!

[villager]

6. Worked for them in the 60's, and there was no meaningful pushback

Hell, worked for them with Karen Silkwood, too.

Someone might make a movie, but again, there's no real pushback, and once the activists are dead, business pretty much continues as usual.

[hollysmom]

57. dead men tell no tales,.

If you think that someone will sue you or testify against you, kill them so much simpler - then only your story goes onthe record.

[eridani]

7. I can't help but think assassination in both cases

Once they get their targets in jail, it isn't hard to find out about their involvements and plan accordingly.

[noiretextatique]

16. too coincidental

you have to at least wonder...

[noiretextatique]

8. and another...on the same day as this man

did they send out a memo?
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhe259Y0q0oXwO3Fz2

[jwirr]

24. And once again arrested for a minor offense.

[udbcrzy2]

54. That one is very disturbing

They showed the video to the family of Ms. Chapman, she unfortunately did commit suicide. We need better mental health for people.

While in the cell, the video shows that she appeared to be agitated, and she attempted to damage the contents of the cell. She knocked over a water cooler, took a bed sheet, and stood on the cooler to tie the bed sheet to a wall support rail extending from the ceiling. She then used the sheet to commit suicide, Falls said.

http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2015/07/video_of_kindra_chapman_shows.html

[noiretextatique]

58. yep...this one appears to be an actual suicide

my schizophrenic nephew is in prison now because of the lousy mental health care in this country.

[jalan48]

9. Police state tactics. No one can prove anything.

[Downwinder]

23. Wonder if Henry had a DHS Fusion Center file.

[jalan48]

30. Seems like somebody is sending a message.

Get in line or....

[Downwinder]

36. Since i asked the question,

I wonder if I have a file.

I don't know how to find out without possibly becoming a target. i was told by a local Cop that they had a file on everybody in town. I'm starting to believe him.

[jalan48]

38. It's the kind of shit they (Hoover) did in the 60's.

The government wanted to weaken the protests. They really went after the Black Panthers. Fred Hampton being killed in Chicago reminds me of what we are seeing today. Our government has supported repressive regimes all over the world for decades and used the CIA to rig elections and assassinate leaders. Why would a person think those same secret elements of our government wouldn't use those tactics here in the US? I think American's can be very naive about the 'good guys' and the 'bad guys'.

[Downwinder]

40. Actually, I would be disappointed to find that there

is no file on me. Would mean I was not doing my job. FBI had one on my dad. Might be a family tradition.

[jalan48]

43. You never know. The unnamed bureaucrats have to stay busy.

[cstanleytech]

53. Sure they can, you just need evidence rather than unsubstantiated theories

that are bordering on going over to the Donald "wheres the birth certificate" Trump nutjob conspiracy region.

[jalan48]

55. Yes, that could happen also. Let's see how it plays out with the latest 'suicides'.

How long should we wait for evidence do you think? Apparently, Trump still thinks it's out there on Obama's birth certificate and some still agree with him.

[cstanleytech]

69. How long to wait? Silly question because evidence will either be found or it wont and if its not

found that doesnt mean there is a coverup going on it just means that isnt any evidence.
Of course the lack of evidence wont stop people from coming up with nutjob conspiracy theories like the one some people go on about there being a 2nd shooter involved in the shooting of President Kennedy.

[jalan48]

77. Maybe it's all just an organic occurrence.

That is, this spate of suicides is the result of it being summer and hot. A perfectly rational person gets arrested and within a few hours of being incarcerated just decides, "I have to kill myself!" Who knows, maybe Oswald was effected by all the gumbo he ate while living in New Orleans prior to his killing Kennedy. And Sirhan Sirhan, he killed Robert K. outside the kitchen at the hotel. I like the organic approach because it is more tidy.

[cstanleytech]

79. Suicides, its a fact

https://www.afsp.org/understanding-suicide/facts-and-figures

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

11. Meanwhile, Wall Street criminals party in their Hamptons mansions.

The cops we most need in this country don't exist.

[SoapBox]

19. Don't forget the rich-and-free BushCo. War Criminals

America needs a change.

[noiretextatique]

12. Our lives matter!

no one should have a problem with that.

[Stellar]

13. I think they can't possible clean out the police departments one by one...corruption is everywhere.

There has to be away to attack the police departments and their unions as well as all of those that claim there are some good kkkops. I can't believe there are good cops until they start reporting the bad cops that's giving their department a bad name. This has been going on for decades if not more and I believe each and every police should get a new evaluation to determine their worth and honor with the police department.

[noiretextatique]

14. they cannot continue to "police themselves"

that's for sure. we need civilians policing them.

[Stellar]

46. Now that a thought. Panel of citizens to say if they can keep their job or get fired or penalized

... some kind of way. I think maybe their community should penalize them since that's where their tax dollars go.

[noiretextatique]

59. civilian review boards

i don't know if they exist anymore, but they used to.

[Stellar]

64. I still like the sound of that.

Their fate in the hands of a civilian.

[Sunlei]

15. That town is the crossroads of kkk Might and Native American 'trail of tears', booted off homeland.

if there really was a good god, with physical 'powers', a sinkhole would suck down the entire town.

a couple hundred years ago.

I hope something is done about this police murder.

[nikto]

17. I'll believe these are actual "suicides" when ...

Some rich, white bankster oligarch dies mysteriously in a jail.


I'm sure it'll be happening any day now.

[malokvale77]

18. K & R for visibility. nt

[Uncle Joe]

20. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, villager.

[hifiguy]

21. "Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is enemy action." Auric Goldfinger

We are way, way past three.

[TBF]

47. ^ This -

[sadoldgirl]

22. There should be so much outrage, that

the national media will have to pay attention!

[jwirr]

25. There is outrage but as you pointed out the media is not interested.

[V0ltairesGh0st]

26. The oldest sins of the United States.

There hasn't been enough outrage since General Nelson A. Miles Sent Geronimo to prison in Florida.

[OldRedneck]

27. Philadelphia, Neshoba County, Mississippi

1964; three civil rights workers arrested, taken from county jail by Klansmen, murdered, bodies buried in earthern dam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_civil_rights_workers%27_murders

1980: Ronald Reagan, in his first speech as GOP presidential candidate, tells shrieking, cheering, foot-stomping all-white crowd in Neshoba County, MS: "I support states' rights!!!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan%27s_Neshoba_County_Fair_%22states%27_rights%22_speech

2015: Same old shit.

Where is General Sherman when we need him?

[blackspade]

28. Indian lives matter too

Sickening.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

41. The real reason is racists in the police force.

They have been involved the whole time, it's obvious, just look at it in a historical sense,there is a long history, it's been well documented.
It will be very difficult to purge them from law enforcement and the court system, but it needs to be done, the tentacles run through our whole culture.

[Tommymac]

50. Real Reason is those that HIRE Racists for police forces.

If no one hired racists for such work then they couldn't kill from within.

Just sayin'

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

80. It's called denial

Some of my best friends are.....

[beam me up scottie]

29. KnR

[historylovr]

31. ...

[Enthusiast]

33. Kicked and recommended!

[oberliner]

34. Native-Americans are killed by police at a higher rate than any other demographic in this country.

Native Americans Get Shot By Cops at an Astonishing Rate

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/native-americans-getting-shot-police

[noiretextatique]

60. +1000

i've switched to OUR lives matter. it is a way to focus less on ALM vs BLM and more on this reality: too many people are being brutalized and killed by police.

[Liberal_in_LA]

37. k&r

[Duval]

39. Kicked and recommended.

This is awful. I have purposefully not given to their National organization because of this crap. Did it start when the police got all of those military weapons? I also think they should be drug tested for steroids....all of them. I had never been afraid of the police until they were granted the right to come into our homes and search for whatever without a warrant. Who isn't going to be scared when they get stopped by a patrolman or a policeman? Thanks, villager. We needed to be aware of this.

[Igel]

45. Link.

www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/shsplj.pdf

Suicide death rate declined sharply from the 1980s to the early 2000s. For 2001/02, the Texas rate was substantially less that the rate for Rhode Island or Maryland or Vermont, but that's what small number statistics get you. Lots of ways to skew the numbers in this report that make for outrage but little understanding; I almost regret posting it.

It's worse in local jails than prisons, but that makes sense. Jails don't have the same levels of security and monitoring; they're short-term holding facilities and the staff wear many hats. In some ways the distribution by section of the country also makes sense, but given internal variation I doubt that a truly coherent story could be devised with getting into the details.


http://www.nbcnews.com/news/other/suicides-kill-more-inmates-homicide-overdoses-accidents-combined-f8C11072563
This is 2013. NBC points out that suicides exceed drug ODs and homicides.

[sunnystarr]

42. The day before this happened there was another death by cop

Again in Mississippi

The attorneys told the Jackson Free Press that around 10 p.m. on Wednesday, July 8, Sanders, who was sitting in a buggy being pulled by a horse, observed Officer Kevin Herrington speaking with a man Sanders knew at the Cefco gas station in Stonewall.

The attorneys say when Sanders rode by, he told Herrington to leave the man alone. The lawyers declined to identify the man at the gas station, except to say that he is white.

Based on the testimony of other witnesses who live near where the scene played out, Herrington caught up with Sanders down the road and flashed the blue lights of his squad car. Sanders' horse reared up, presumably frightened by the lights, knocking Sanders from the buggy and causing the headlamp he was wearing around his head to fall around his neck. The horse started to run off, and Sanders ran after him.

According to the lawyers, witnesses say Herrington chased after Sanders, grabbing at the headlamp around his neck and pulled him to the ground, which the attorneys believe could be where early false reports came from about Herrington using a flashlight to subdue Sanders. From there, Herrington spun Sanders around and applied a headlock, they said.

Witnesses told the lawyers that Sanders was face down with his hands underneath him; Herrington was on his knees in front of Sanders, they said. By then, several neighbors had gone outside, including a witness who told Herrington that Sanders would not be able to breathe with his face buried in the tall grass.

The attorneys say that Herrington had a female companion with him in the police car, who was not an officer. As Herrington applied a chokehold, attorneys say, the officer instructed the female companion to remove his gun from its holster so that Sanders could not reach it; however, the woman could not unholster the weapon, but one of the witnesses was able to tell her how to remove it.

Witnesses told the attorneys that Sanders said at least twice that he could not breathe, attorneys say. Another witness went home and got a mask that would enable them to perform CPR just in case it was needed. Attorneys say Sanders never fought the officer and did not move throughout the incident. Herrington did not let the witness perform CPR and maintained the headlock until backup and emergency-medical technicians arrived as much as 30 minutes later, the attorneys for the Sanders family say.

The attorneys, Lumumba and Lawrence, said Sanders had no active warrants and cannot understand why Herrington would follow Sanders.

"You can't speed on a horse," Lawrence said. "What crime could you have committed that would require a violent takedown?"

more at ...

http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2015/jul/13/attorneys-recount-events-jonathan-sanders-death/

[noiretextatique]

61. this has to end

perhaps i've found my life's purpose. this is INSANITY and lawlessness being perpetrated by those who are supposed to protect an serve.

[valerief]

44. They've got orders to kill off the POC activists. Fuckin' KKK Kops. nt

[WillyT]

48. K & R !!!

[MisterP]

49. ususally it's done outside of the jail

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlight_tours

[rhett o rick]

51. Maybe the DoJ should look into this. Oh yeah, they are too busy playing patty-cake

with Goldman-Sachs and the HSBC, the worst of the worse.

[udbcrzy2]

56. Where is the monitoring in the jails?

I'm amazed that with today's technology that they can't have live video monitoring. I know some jails have it. This shit can be prevented!

[vaberella]

66. Monitoring by whom?

By the same people who support these racist fucks. This is the irony of it all. We call the cops to protect us and they are the ones terrorizing us. The people who hired are terrorists are the ones who monitor them.

[BeanMusical]

63. ...

[KansDem]

65. Powerful movie

Especially this scene. Explains a lot about the current mindset of some Americans--

[BeanMusical]

68. +1

A masterpiece.

[oasis]

74. Wow

[raouldukelives]

67. K&R

[L0oniX]

70. Jails ...the new death chamber ...apparently.

[niyad]

72. they are not even bothering to try and pretend anymore.

[UCmeNdc]

73. Go to Jail = Death Sentence

[psychmommy]

75. The similarities between these 2 are striking.

The things that stuck out to me are minorities and activists. People that know their rights are in danger if they speak up. Please be safe out there people. A traffic ticket can be a death sentence.

[SummerSnow]

76. kkk .....

plan 1....become police officers
plan 2 ..... kill non whites (legally)
a. " they were going for my gun"
b. " i thought my life was in danger"
c. " he was resisting arrest and it was an accident"
d. " he had an illness and that's what really killed him"

plan 3.....arrest them for minor infractions
plan 4....kill them in their cells

[Faux pas]

78. Too many

too sad

[wheniwasincongress]

81. Has this gotten any play on the news channels?

anyone see?

[Dont call me Shirley]

82. Henry...

I'm so filled with sorrow. Please make them stop.

[d_legendary1]

83. This is becoming a hell of a trend in Texas

Who do the police have to kill in order for the Feds to get involved in these incidents?

[rladdi]

84. WHEN will American people realize the cops are the KKK and the LYNCH mods across America.

The US Attorney General and the Dept of Justice seems to be just silent and doing nothing. The States have passed laws giving the cops freedom to murder at will.

Not until the people of the states take to the streets and demand new laws, this will continue.

[Rex]

85. Nothing ever changes much does it? Perfectly healthy minority goes into jail

comes out dead a few days later.