It didn’t make it to space.

Don’t forget NASA’s SLS system a year ago, which not only launched successfully, but delivered it payload all the way to Moon orbit and back to Earth in one piece.

Yeah, that’s an expensive and inelegant way to run a space program.

It was always planned to be a sub-orbital launch so nothing bad there. Seemed like a very successful test with a ton of progress being made from the first launch. I am encouraged that Muskrat was nowhere to be seen. The faster SpaceX and Tesla can divest from that idiot the better.

No need to pull out the wallet, they knew whose son he was before they hit him and they want the people of Jackson to know that.

Right. you know they probably also covered up some other hijinks by messing with the body.

How drunk was the Cop who ran him over?

or if it was even a death by car at all

How have we let a paid, (nominally) professional workforce have so little accountability to the people they actually work for? In my lab, if I stop a two-hour incubation at an hour fifty-eight, I’m going to be spending time filling out paperwork explaining myself to the QA goblins. And I’m just working with cells, the…

“How many mistakes you can have before you take responsibility,” Wade Robinson told ABC News.

Don’t you threaten the rest of us.

Reading the accounts of the story is fucking nuts. The Jackson police report that an off-duty police officer hit Dexter while he was crossing a 6-lane highway. They didn’t find the wallet in his pocket but found prescription medication and “tried” to call his next of kin based on medical info. They never bothered…

ALL OF THIS leads me to wonder whether the original death by police car was an accident or not.

Sooooo maybe I missed it due to the jaw dropping callousness and zero effort to even ‘appear’ contrite by every official in this story — but what happened to the off duty cop that killed Dexter?

So, they didn’t even empty his pockets before tossing him in a hole? I can’t tell if this is the result of brazen indifference or utter stupidity. If the former, I’d be checking all of the other graves in that cemetery because it seems like those cops are treating pauper graves like the Vegas mob treats holes in the…

Lived in MS for a few years (originally from, and currently living in, Pennsylvania).

Obviously corruption and shitty things exists everywhere, but the Deep South is on a different level.

I’d happily launch Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama into the sun, given the chance.  And I’ll throw Florida in just for fun.  

I don’t understand why the FBI is not stepping in. It’s clear that the local government cannot be trusted to investigate themselves.

NBC News reports that after Wade’s body was exhumed, Crump says an independent pathologist found a wallet in the front pocket of Wade’s jeans that contained a state ID with his home address on it, as well as both a credit and a health insurance card. Assuming that’s true, it’s even harder to believe that officials…

Probability that he was on drugs is now dropped to 10%

They just keep adding zeroes to the eventual settlement they’ll pay the family. Of course, it’s the tax payers who will foot the bill and not anyone in a position of authority. Plus, it’s Mississippi, so those authorities (probably rightly) assume no one is going to remove them from office.