another young black woman commits suicide in jail, now in Alabama

[irisblue]

from The Root, 7/16/2015


Kindra Darnell Chapman was reportedly booked at Homewood City Jail Tuesday at around 6:22 p.m. on a first-degree-robbery charge for allegedly taking a cellphone from another individual. She was last seen alive at 6:30 p.m. Jailers found the 18-year-old a little under an hour and a half later, at 7:50, unresponsive. According to officials, Chapman used a bed sheet to hang herself.

The teen was taken to Brookwood Medical Center but was pronounced dead.


What the hell is going on?

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. You mean "commits suicide"?

Suicide by cop has a lot of additional meanings these days.

[SamKnause]

2. Could you provide a link please ???

Thank you.

[irisblue]

4. Tumblr & twitter feeds, they sent me to TheRoot.com, then when googling her full name

this came up....http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2015/07/teen_hangs_herself_in_homewood.html#incart_most-read_. Now huffpo has this....http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kindra-chapman-death_55a9063fe4b04740a3dfa844.
When I put my OP up, there wasn't much up about it yet.

[SamKnause]

6. Thank you.

[KamaAina]

3. Did she shoot herself in the back, too?

[uponit7771]

7. +1

[ncjustice80]

5. I think you meant to say "Murdered by pigs"? n/t

[Spatened]

8. What would their motivation be?

[ncjustice80]

9. Same as the others- racism.

I'm guessing they were angry that a black woman "sassed" them or some such, went a little too far in their beatings, lynched her, and claimed it was a suicide to cover it up.

[Spatened]

10. Uh huh...