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Mar 18 2020 10:26am
Found an interesting story of a contortionist who managed to shoot herself in the mouth despite her hands having been tied behind her back.

Luckily the police investigated themsleves and ruled the death a suicide so we can rest assured that this wasn't simply another police brutality incident

The family of the deceased feels otherwise, what do our resident pardians make of this story?

https://www.cbs17.com/news/south/family-responds-after-police-say-handcuffed-woman-shot-herself-through-mouth/
CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — A 19-year-old woman whose hands were cuffed behind her back when she committed suicide during a traffic stop in Chesapeake died of a gunshot wound through the mouth, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Sarah Wilson committed suicide on July 25, 2018, during a traffic stop near the intersection of Berkley Avenue and Wilson Road, according to the Chesapeake Police Department.

She was the passenger of a 1996 Lexus driven by her boyfriend, 27-year-old Holden Medlin. The couple was under the surveillance of two CPD officers — one assigned to uniform patrol, and the other to vice narcotics — when they were stopped around 4:24 p.m.

During the stop, the officers approached Wilson and Medlin separately. While one officer handcuffed Wilson with her hands behind her back, the other tried to detain Medlin, CPD Officer Leo Kosinski told 10 On Your Side in August.

Medlin resisted arrest, becoming combative and trying to flee the scene, police said. That’s when the officer who handcuffed Wilson left her outside of the car’s passenger side and went to assist in Medlin’s arrest, which involved using a Taser to subdue him, according to police.

Kosinski said in August that Wilson was handcuffed with her arms behind her back when she got the gun out of the Lexus, “contorted” her body and shot herself in the head.

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Mar 18 2020 11:11am
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Mar 18 2020 11:25am
^Ghot

I'd love to see your defense of the police on this, assuming you want to defend the police on this
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Mar 18 2020 01:47pm
I wonder what she was thinking... I mean why shoot yourself in the head during an arrest? was she some kind of serial killer that thought she was finally caught or something?
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Mar 18 2020 01:57pm
At least she didn't accidentally fall down an elevator shaft, onto some bullets. Or suffer blunt-force trauma to the head, neck, and torso due to a series of drunken falls after days of excessive consumption of alcohol. Or shoot herself in the back of the head and have shell casings appear later after the fact.

This post was edited by Arsenic_Touch on Mar 18 2020 01:57pm
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Mar 18 2020 07:45pm
No body cam I'm assuming or dash cam sound?. I can't fathom why its not law everywhere to have a body cam on at all stops.

Its not outside the realm of possibility that she got the cuffs in front of her and shot herself.
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Mar 19 2020 04:41pm
Quote (krackprophet @ Mar 18 2020 07:45pm)
No body cam I'm assuming or dash cam sound?. I can't fathom why its not law everywhere to have a body cam on at all stops.

Its not outside the realm of possibility that she got the cuffs in front of her and shot herself.


but why though?
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Mar 19 2020 04:43pm
Quote (krackprophet @ Mar 18 2020 09:45pm)
No body cam I'm assuming or dash cam sound?. I can't fathom why its not law everywhere to have a body cam on at all stops.

Its not outside the realm of possibility that she got the cuffs in front of her and shot herself.


The same reason why they allow, at the discretion of the officer, to turn off their cams in the places that have them. They don't want the public to know this stuff.
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Mar 19 2020 04:45pm
Quote (Arsenic_Touch @ Mar 19 2020 04:43pm)
The same reason why they allow, at the discretion of the officer, to turn off their cams in the places that have them. They don't want the public to know this stuff.


and yet the public does know and still nothing is happening... it will just be brought up as HUMAN ERROR and the cops will sweep it under the rug as usual...




BUT WHY SHOOT YOURSELF IN THE HEAD INSTEAD OF BEING ARRESTED?!?!?! it sounds like she thought death was a better option because she was caught for something very very bad
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Mar 19 2020 06:48pm
Quote (caswallen @ Mar 19 2020 05:41pm)
but why though?


Why does anyone commit suicide? Their mental state is at such a low point that they want to take their own life.
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