You can tell how giddy the national media are about the possibility of more race riots by their repeated use of the fake term “independent autopsy” to describe the latest development in the Nolan Wells case. There was no independent autopsy, but they’re using that phrase to warm up their trusty racial agitation machine.
Shakedown artist and alleged attorney Benjamin Crump is back in the national spotlight of late, having parachuted into Jackson County, Mississippi, where 18-year-old Nolan Wells was found dead on July 6, floating face down near an island off the Gulf coast. Wells’ family commissioned a private autopsy, paid for by former NFL player Colin Kaepernick, the results of which — cause of death left “undetermined” — were announced by Crump at a press conference on Wednesday.
This is what he does. Crump, in all his illiteracy, seizes on some tragedy involving a dead black person, stirring up suspicions and hurling accusations before ultimately trying to squeeze out a multimillion-dollar settlement from the government, of which he takes something like a third. A big part of that strategy is working with the media, always compliant, to push out racist narratives, along with allegations and insinuations of wrongdoing by authorities, well before official investigations are complete.
In the case of Wells, there is neither a publicly available toxicology report nor an autopsy that has concluded his cause of death. The local sheriff’s department has only said Wells appeared to have drowned and that they had not found reason to suspect foul play, though an investigation was still underway.
Friends who last saw Wells said they were boating with a large group that included Wells on Independence Day. They said they stopped at an island, and when the friends Wells had arrived with were ready to leave, he remained behind with others. There are reports that Wells’ phone and keys made it back to the home of one of his friends who drove the boat, though it’s unclear how. A publicly available photograph from July 4 appears to show Wells posing and smiling with three other boys, who are white. Three of them, including Wells, can be seen holding canned drinks.
Few helpful details outside of that have yet to be confirmed by authorities or public accounts by witnesses. But why should that stop Crump? He’s got a racial sore to rub!
Crump has gone on TV to claim he heard about a possible argument between Wells and at least one other person on the day he went missing. He also said he spoke with someone who said Wells told her that he would be returning to the shore with the friends who brought him to the island, information that has not yet been corroborated by authorities.
Hellbound and Down 