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If the cop was walking back to his cop car, wouldn't the dash cam picked up the shot?

Death to the pig!

The officer's patrol vehicle may not be equipped with a dash cam and audio recording.  Don't know the protocol down in Mississippi.

why won't mainstream media pick up on this?

this is another story that will get swept under the rug, and it really is too bad.

It's mississippi.  They can't afford dash cams.

this was on espn yesterday...

been to the state before and it does'nt surprise me a bit,dig a big hole and bury the entire state into it.

Why won't the mainstream media pick up on this?  Simple.

Because its a small local story with no national importance.  This, at worst, is a sign of personal dislike of a person and NOT a sign of systematic racism.

The officer, acting alone, may have shot the boy because he was black.  Or because he was a bad boyfriend.  Or because of any other reason.  Or the boy shot himself.  Based on this article, their are some serious holes in the story that need to be answered but that answer will not be Systematic Racism.

Systematic Racism is gone.  Obama is President of the US, a Black man is head of the GOP, the Governor of a Southern state is of Indian decent and Hispanics occupy high office across the nation.  We have achieved the dream.

The only people still crying out racist conspiracy are those that need to believe it to excuse their own failings.

Hey if you're black in MS, dont date a white girl!

Of course it was a murder..

No sane person trusts the police nowadays, they aren't our friends, they aren't here to help us or to serve and protect. Think of the police in America today as the gestapo of Nazi Germany (jack booted, murderous thugs who can't wait to find a new victim).

The police are what the bullies in school grew up to be, they abuse their authority, get away with things that anyone else in this country would be arrested for.

If Kurt Cobain can shoot himself in the head with a shot gun high on heroin, this young man sure can.

Video from the cop cam  NSFW blood

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The Obamasaiah will fix this!

good to see the south is still several hundred years behind the times.  @ss backward part of the country.

My Uncle was murdered by Mississippi police in 1999. He was shot in the back multiple times within his own home. The PI we hired was able to come to the conclusion that the police involved were dirty, but not get any hard evidence.

While my uncle was never the easiest person to get along with, he would never threaten someone's life unless his was in danger.

I'm sorry to state all of this, but this has brought up no fond memories for me. While the major difference would be that we are white. I still felt the need to post this.

It's a sh*t hole where most people think it's still the 1800's. We still have some problems like this in Texas but not nearly as much as Mississippi. I'm white and I can't stand people like this. Everyone is everyone's buddy...probably all related too. Oh, and by the way, they haven't figured out how to mount a camera to a horse.

I used to be a homeless rodeo clown but now I am a world class magician !

RIP Billey Joe Johnson, Jr., I pray that the truth will be revealed and the murderer(s) will be brought to justice.

absolutely disgusting that Mississippi is still such a backwards State, and worse, it's not the only one...many parts of the U.S.A. have a long way to go when it comes to racism..

I bet he had a dash cam, and that it was conveniently not working

Let's drop that cop in the middle of the hood and see if he can bop his way back to Coney

My only question is what is the  police officer's excuse for not noticing a shotgun inside a car? Lets propose the cop IS a racist backwards bigot. In that situation, he'd be extra cautious, take a real good look around that car visually from the outside with his flashlight, and possibly remove and search the person or vehicle (probable cause isn't hard to invent). So this football player owns a shotgun so long its impossible to shoot himself with it, but its capable of being concealed within reach inside a vehicle? This allegedly racist, bigoted officer wouldn't knowingly leave a shotgun within reach. I don't know what that all means, just an observation.

The police in this nation have become little more than government sanctioned gangs. They days of the good old neighborhood flat foot are long gone. Cops today have an US against THEM mentality (THEM being anyone not a cop). Most are either the bully's from high school or the ones they picked on seeking revenge.

The irony is that more whites suffer from racism than blacks, nowadays in Mississippi. In Jackson, the police force is very corrupt, white and black.

If you are black in a white neighborhood, yeah you may get a little police harrassin, but if you are white in a black neaighborhood you will be lucky to leave with your life, let alone your wallet and sneakers.

if this article's claims are correct, the young man was murdered and his killer MUST be executed by the State. no less a deterrant will do, murderers this foul deserve full Oblivion.

Government failure to *independently and competently* investigate this fairly obvious murder would be a clear signal that Law and Government deserve no respect at all.

In a time of accelerating widespread economic chaos, that is a horrific and horrifically stupid message to send.

Wow.  And y'all think Mississippi is loaded with bigots.  The hypocrisy is so bad in the comments section I can smell it.  

Obviously, the reported conclusion is questionable.  Obviously, there are a number of things that need explaining.  Has there been a grand jury investigation into the matter?  There simply isn't enough information here for to jump to conclusions and label millions of people.

Conversely,  none of you critics have the right to stereotype Mississippi unless you've lived there long enough to be a Mississippian.  I've lived all over the USA throughout my life, and I settled in Alabama, just a few miles from Mississippi.  And I'll live here 'til I die, because you're not going to find an overall nicer place to live.  

We have our problems, and I personally understand and despise some of the cultures here, but there's trash and stupdity everywhere.  There just seems to be a whole lot less of it here than in California, New York, Florida, Virginia, Indiana, etc.  

It's because the freaking news media only cares when a rich white girl is abducted. Look at all the major stories like that. Rich, suburban white girls, occasionally boys. Yet blacks are killed at a <a href="lifeofwaldo.blogspot.com/.../put-clove-of-garlic-in-your-ass.html">MUCH HIGHER</a> proportion, and even more often by officers or other people.

It's just ridiculous the amount of racism in this country still. The south should be torched, again.

Obviously there's more to this story that we will never know. Oh well.

@ David

I am a hispanic young man living in San Diego CA and the only people out here who are still really steadfast about their racism happen to be white.  Go out to lunch and you can often find tables of mixed minorities eating together while one table over you have nothing but bro white guys talking crap.

I am a 40 year old white man who lives in the town where this took place. There's no doubt Mississippi has a bad reputation in race relations left over from decades past, but times really have changed. Mixed race couples are relatively common and don't attract any special attention that I've ever seen. Obviously some old timers are bent out of shape about it, but it's not like the Klan is holding meetings. This particular town apparently escaped all of the real racial strife during the Civil Rights struggles; the schools integrated peacefully and, unlike many other southern counties, no private whites-only schools popped up.

I watched Billey Joe play football from the time he was a freshman, and he was in inspiration. I'm sure he wasn't a saint, but I heard almost exclusively positive remarks about his character and how well liked he was in general.

Yes, there are questions that need answering in this case, but many of the "facts" in the story above are just wild speculation and rumor. The sheriff shut the scene down when this happened and immediately called in the state investigators. I don't believe there is an attempt at a cover-up, and if there is, it seems impossible to imagine that a killing could be carried out just outside of town just before daylight and successfully covered up.

For the sake of the residents of George County and Lucedale, Mississippi I hope and pray that this does not turn out to be a shady deal and that it can be clearly and convincingly proven that it was an accident, tragic as it may be. On the other hand, if it was murder, I believe I would be in accord with the vast majority of the local residents (who are mostly white) in demanding justice.

Moral of the story: If you dont want to get shot...dont date against the fathers will.

How many black men murder white people a day? TONS. So shut the fuck up.

To that other hispanic idiot who says "Only whites are racist in CA..." BULLSHIT! The real reason mixed races eat togather, is they share a common bigotry. WHITE PEOPLE.....I tell you, its ok to make fun of white people, tell jokes....harass them, but if they say something back........RACIST!!!!!!! Get over yourselves AND your hatred. The reason Main stream media hasn't picked up on this....is they are too busy reporting the massive amounts of black on white crime. so once more......Get over it.

The kid was a football player - I'm sure his arms were long enough to reach a trigger on a shotgun and to suggest they weren't is a lie.

Hey Sean King, you sound like one of those internet tough guys who are gayer than Richard Simmons.

Here is a more thorough report: sports.yahoo.com/.../news

I'm flabbergasted that Billey's father has the vehicle and it is not being tested for forensics and trajectories!

This story does not provide all parts of the report.

Cop said he was in the car not walking back.

Yahoo new ran an article about this yesterday or Wednesday.

sports.yahoo.com/.../news

Yes, it is possible to shoot yourself with a shotgun - the assertion is that the wounds were not consistent with that act.  And come on, people do kill themselves when stopped by the cops, but with the backgound to this story, certainly one has to wonder...and no one should be surprised if the dash cam video never comes out - if it showed the shotgun blast then it should have been out by now, or very soon, yes?

Of course the south is backward this way! If a black gets shot anywhere else in the US you can be damned sure another black did it!

WHO CARES!

I'm tired of Mississippi getting a bad rap!   This happened in my county.  This was a sheriff's car.  They don't have enough money let alone citizens to support car cams.   I'm white and this sheriffs deputy has stopped me at least 4 times in 6 years(tag expired, headlight out, taillight out, one time for no apparent reason - he didn't give me one).   They really don't have that much to do!   My wife's aunt who happens to be white has been followed by the same sheriff department for a couple of miles at 3:30 in the morning going to work and was stopped.   Yes, people in Mississippi go to work at 3:30 in the morning.  It's called shipyard work!  By the way, this high school standout was as dumb as a box of rocks.  The local gossip is she broke it off with him and he could handle it.  Case closed!  MOVE ON!  I have a brother-in-law who is black with a PH.D and a sister-in-law that is a doctor.  

i read this story and i see a sad sad tale about people covering up corruption and racism in this country... really 2 shots with a shot-gun.. wow if your gonna put a bullet inyour brain I'd think you would get ir right the 1st time ...sad sad time america

Hey Sean King, you are a moron. You gotta love people who summon statistics they cannot back up. Oh yes, I remember reading about the TONS of crime now, on Rush Limbaugh's website of scientific truth.

As for you Angry Black Guy, news of no national importance get reported nationally every day. The fishiness of this should be reason enough to hear about it. Remember the Holloway girl? How nationally relevant was that? Or was that part of the dream?

I'm an older white guy who lives in north central Wisconsin.

It's mostly a white place.

I hunt.

I like my guns.

I'm originally from Chicago.

I've done a hell of a lot of "been there/done that".

I'd like to see anytime that someone shoots theirselves with a 12ga and, the shotgun is lying on their body.

If you're not a gunny, it wll KNOCK YOU ON YOUR ASS!!

I say this young man was murdered by that cop and the girl's father was probably in on it or at least PAID for it to go down.

As I said, I'm a white guy.

I'm 70, own a business, a house and even golf and/or fish with a couple of cops.

I am the kind of person they like to label as a cop hater as they ALWAYS do with anyone who objects to their behavior.

Honest people, do NOT let this issue die.

Billey Joe was MURDERED!!

"Protect and serve" indeed!!

I live in Mobile, AL.  This has been big news around this region.  This article leaves out a lot that has been reported.  The cop car was not equipped with a dash camera.  Those of you who are mocking a poor hard working county for not being able to afford one are pathetic and need to check your liberal credentials.  The idea that any state in the South-where the majority of blacks live- doesn't have plenty of blacks in positions of power in the state entities that investigate these types of crimes is simply ignorant.  Most of you have developed your impressions of the South watching movies like "Mississippi Burning" and the like.  While the South certainly has much to be ashamed of for it's part in slavery and its treatment of it's black citizens, I've lived around the country and the worst racist talk and actions I've ever witnessed were in Seattle, Pittsburgh and Columbus, Ohio.  You need to take a long hard look at yourselves and ask "Why do I harbor this deep hate for the South?"  Is it to make me feel better about my pathetic self?  BTW its Feb 7 and the temp outside reached 70 today-so who's the idiot for choosing to live in 3 feet of snow?

I live in Mobile, AL.  This has been big news around this region.  This article leaves out a lot that has been reported.  The cop car was not equipped with a dash camera.  Those of you who are mocking a poor hard working county for not being able to afford one are pathetic and need to check your liberal credentials.  The idea that any state in the South-where the majority of blacks live- doesn't have plenty of blacks in positions of power in the state entities that investigate these types of crimes is simply ignorant.  Most of you have developed your impressions of the South watching movies like "Mississippi Burning" and the like.  While the South certainly has much to be ashamed of for it's part in slavery and its treatment of it's black citizens, I've lived around the country and the worst racist talk and actions I've ever witnessed were in Seattle, Pittsburgh and Columbus, Ohio.  You need to take a long hard look at yourselves and ask "Why do I harbor this deep hate for the South?"  Is it to make me feel better about my pathetic self?  BTW its Feb 7 and the temp outside reached 70 today-so who's the idiot for choosing to live in 3 feet of snow?

This is the biggest crock of bull I've seen on this story so far!  You have COMPLETELY misrepresented and downright lied about what happened!!!

There are so many untruths in your story, I can't even take the time this morning to detail them all.

Grand Jury is on February 12th.  Maybe THEN all of you who are screaming, "MURDER", "COVERUP", "HATE CRIME", and all the other hateful things you've slung at our town will get the "truth" that you say you want.  I have my doubts, though, that when it does get presented, you probably won't believe that, either!

Too bad this guy wasn't an attractive white girl, then everyone would know about it.  Greta would do an expose on it for 30 weeks in a row, harping every angle.