Jarveon Hudspeth Dead During Traffic Stop in Tennessee

Submitted on 08/29/2023 by: Wicked
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Videos released Thursday of a Tennessee traffic stop that ended in a fatal shooting shows a deputy holding on to the car’s steering wheel and being carried away as the vehicle speeds off, but does not show the moment when the deputy shot the driver.

Jarveon Hudspeth, 21, was shot and killed June 24 by a Shelby County Sheriff’s Office deputy after the deputy approached his car and tried to stop it from leaving the scene, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

The situation escalated and Hudspeth drove off and “dragged” the deputy about 100 yards (91 meters), the bureau said in a statement, and at some point the deputy fired his gun at least once and hit the driver. The car stopped about a half-mile later (nearly a kilometer).

The videos released by the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office are from the deputy’s in-car and body-worn cameras, and a neighbor’s doorbell camera.

The body camera video shows the deputy stopping a white two-door car in a residential neighborhood and walking up to the vehicle. The deputy asks Hudspeth for his license, and he hands it over. The deputy tells Hudspeth to get out of the car, which he does, and then checks his pockets.

The deputy says he is going to search the car, and Hudspeth returns to sit in the driver's seat. Hudspeth then hits the accelerator, and the deputy grabs onto the steering wheel. Hudspeth appears to try to push the deputy away with his leg.

The body camera video ends with it being jostled and a view of the sky and a tree. The sound of a car driving away is heard.

The dashboard camera shows the deputy climbing into the driver's side of the car and being carried away as Hudspeth drives off with the car door open. The doorbell camera only shows the car driving past.

None of the videos show the officer being dragged or the shooting itself. The reason for the traffic stop was not immediately clear from the footage, and authorities have not provided a reason either.

Hudspeth's family, their lawyer Ben Crump and activists had been pushing for release of the video. Hudspeth's family has seen it, the district attorney's office said.

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