*The horrific imagery is long seared into the minds of Black Americans and imprinted in the history of the American South: A Black man hunted down, beaten bloody, run over, hung from a pecan tree, dragged behind a pickup truck, or shot in broad daylight as he jogs through his own neighborhood. The brutal lynchings and murders of Black Americans are almost as American as apple pie.

You’d think that in the year 2023, these horrific accounts would be well in our past –– unfortunate reminders of what used to happen, not what does. Yet, just last October, 25-year-old Rasheem Carter went missing in rural Mississippi after twice reporting to the Taylorsville Police Department that he was being hunted by a group of white men in pickup trucks. It was the last time he was seen alive.

Rasheem was a Fayette, Mississippi, resident who routinely worked contracting jobs in neighboring towns to provide for his young daughter and earn a living after his business closed during the pandemic. He dreamed of reopening his restaurant, Cali’s Express, by saving money through odd jobs, reports MSNBC.

A certified millwright and welder, in late September he picked up a job in Taylorsville, Mississippi. Just a few days later, Rasheem experienced a threat that all Black mothers fear for their sons — being chased by a group of white men in a pickup truck. He sent a text to his mother letting her know what was going on and she immediately became terrified for his safety and well-being.

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At her encouragement and out of fear for his life, Rasheem went to the Taylorsville Police Department twice to plead for help, and according to Chief Gabe Horn, he also filed a police report. He was so shaken that he asked the police for a ride back to his hotel. But by the department’s own account, they brushed him off, saying they’re not a “taxi service.”

After his second and final visit to the police department seeking help, on Oct. 2 he called his mother, warning her that his phone battery was dangerously low. He dropped a pin to his location so a family friend from a neighboring town could pick him up and get him home safely. When the friend arrived a few hours later, Rasheem was nowhere to be found.

The last image of Rasheem, eerily caught on a hunting camera the afternoon he went missing, shows him running, partially clothed and muddy. After viewing the photo, Rasheem’s mother knew in her soul that her son was “running for his life.” It’s the last image she has of him, burned into her memory forever.

On Nov. 2 — a month to the day that he went missing — Rasheem Carter’s skeletal remains were found dismembered and scattered in the woods just a few miles from the Taylorsville Police Department where he twice sought help. His skull was severed in half. Despite those disturbing facts, police have continued to claim that no foul play is suspected.

There should be no doubt that this was an act of murder, a hate crime — and a Mississippi lynching. But the Taylorsville Police Department and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations continue to ignore the cold, hard facts and railroad the family at every turn.

Given the recent history of so-called investigations into the violent deaths of Black men in Mississippi, police inaction is not a surprise. According to a 2021 Washington Post report, there have been at least eight suspected lynchings of Black men and teens in the state since 2000. Most were brushed aside as suicides despite evidence to the contrary, and when law enforcement was pressed, they simply responded that they couldn’t comment.

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McCallion, who is white, admitted to violently stabbing a 17-year-old girl at an apartment complex where he lived at the time, court documents revealed. The incident took place on Friday, March 13, 2020, at the Avalon apartments on North Highland Avenue in Ossining in Westchester County, New York.

Police arrived at the apartment complex to find the victim, whose name has not yet been made public bleeding from stab wounds to the face and back.

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Westchester County District Attorney Mimi Rocah said the man used racial slurs while stabbing the victim, who was a stranger to him. “This was a brutal, despicable and cowardly attack by Robert McCallion on an innocent young woman because of the color of her skin,” he said.

“Hate crimes such as this not only traumatize the victim, but the community as well, and will be prosecuted aggressively by this Office,” DA Roach added. McCallion was found nearby in the complex’s parking lot covered in the victim’s blood. The knife he used during the crime was also found at the scene.

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