Ferguson activist and Hip Hop musician Darren Seals, 29, was found dead inside of a burning car Tuesday (September 6) in North St. Louis County, The St. Louis American reports.
Seals was found to have suffered a gunshot wound before the car was set on fire early Tuesday morning at approximately 1:50 a.m, when the Bureau of Crimes Against Persons and Bomb and Arson Unit were called.
The St. Louis County Police Department is treating the incident as a homicide.
Darren was well-known locally in the city for his activism following the death of Mike Brown, an unarmed black teenager who was fatally shot by a white Ferguson police officer, Darren Wilson on August 9, 2014.
He was right beside Brown’s mother, Lezley McSpadden, when prosecutors announced in November 2014 that a grand jury had decided not to indict Wilson in Brown’s death.
Seals recently uploaded a Facebook Live video recounting an encounter he had with Ferguson police, who reportedly pulled him and his 14-year-old brother over at gunpoint in July. He claims in the video that the police who pulled him over told him to “choose your enemies wisely.”
Fellow activists and celebrities such as Tariq Nasheed and Chuck D took to social media to mourn the untimely loss of Darren Seals.
HipHopDX sends its condolences to Darren Seal’s friends and family during this difficult time.
Check out the tweets mourning the loss of Darren Seals below.
black lives matter is a joke. they are the new KKK. But RIP. I know this guy had good intentions. The problem is that gang bangers, not cops, are the ones treating black lives as if they are disposable. that is why the cops use more caution when dealing with them. The anger is misplaced by the media, who is just trying to cause racial tension.
I don’t fully disagree with all you said…. But COPS ARE GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER….
Totally agree
you dont even know who the kkk is lol. otherwise you wouldnt make such a silly statement.
Either police cover-up or killed by rival but made to look like a police cover-up. It is gonna be a lose-lose situation for the cops.
The new kkk… tf? Have u seen white people hanging from trees, or sorayed by water hoses from fire trucks or burning crisses in white people yards? Fuck no so dont compare blm to the klan
Because if that shit started in the united states last time i checked caucasians outnumber african americans almost 5-1 per the census and not to mention im sure legal lisceneship of firearms from white to blacks is more like 20-1…. whites in the military vs blacks is easily around again 20-1 so firefight training and field tactics in whites favor…not to mention white people who are in local militia groups and independantly trained with there firearms is again easily 10-20-1…… so if blacks started hanging white people it wouldnt last more than 2 minutes in the united states before more rounds start flying around than WWII…..
And here we go….can’t possibly be a black on black crime, it had to be the evvvvvvil Poe-lease. Face it, you marched and protested BLM, turning your back long enough for one of your own to put a bullet in your head.
Whats this got to do with hip hop?
If you have to ask you’re the reason it sucks now. Got back to your mindless “turn up” music with your anti intellectual ass
Here are the facts: BLM is the new KKK for black people. It’s obvious this was set up by DeRay and Johnetta. They used their BLM street team/cronies to do this on 2 fronts: Frame police and wipe out their competition. Anyone who can’t see how hateful BLM is is delusional. “Pigs in a blanket fry them like bacon” and then they kill those cops in Dallas? They’re waging a war against whites and society as a whole because they feel as though blacks are superior to other races. I’ve heard black supremacists say they are the chosen ones and were once Kings and Queens although history greatly disproves this. Sad to see he died at the hands of his own people, but he was involved with violence, and it only attracts more violence.
Ok now go back to watching hours upon hours of infowars on youtube now….
THIS! You’re 10000% right! How could people not see BLM did this! They did it in a way to frame police. The war on cops is getting out of control.
The cops did that ….
I smell bacon. Didi you write this at the precinct?
I didn’t think BLM were considered the KKK for black people as I didn’t see any of them making a grand mockery of themselves while wearing sheets over their heads. I also don’t think BLM have a cult-like behavior like the KKK such as having fucking meetings in the woods almost like the members are ashamed of what their doing.
I bet it’s gang related. He was black after all.. and we all know how those type of people get down
Dear HHDX, will you attempt to delete my comment due to the honesty I’m expressing again? Listen, I’ll repeat and keep doing so until you leave this ish you hypocrites. Y’all were late with this story, cops and supremacists are all over the comments to discredit the man and the truth AS USUAL. Make this a bigger issue than just another story around the way. Y’all were hyped with AHH when the movement was hot but now it’s back to your lil yachty coverage and Drake praises
If not youll just post under my username talking about your horribly abusive homosexual life at home cause your too afraid to tell the truth about who you are so you say it 3rd person lol
Good riddance scum bag!