Seals, who described himself as a “revolutionary, activist and unapologetically black,” helped lead protests after the shooting of Michael Brown in the St Louis suburb of Ferguson in 2014.
In what is now being widely speculated, St Louis County Police Department said the 29-year-old Seals was found dead inside the vehicle around 12 miles from his home and added that the motive for the killing was unknown, according to the New York Times.
But many believe it was a targeted attack.
What is notable about the killing is that Seals is not the only Ferguson man to have been shot and set on fire in a car.
The latest incident makes him the sixth person to be found in such circumstances. In the case of DeAndre Joshua, who was also shot dead before his killer or killers set his car on fire on the November 2014 night of the grand jury decided not to charge Darren Wilson for Michael Brown’s death, speculation continues over the murder.
Rumors spread that Joshua had testified before the grand jury who had been probing Brown’s death at the time, but the St Louis County prosecuting attorney’s office said in December 2014 that Joshua had not been a grand jury witness, the Washington Post reports.
The four other men who were also recovered from burnt-out cars are even less known.
For Seals, the last three years had been life changing as he became a prominent anti-violence advocate, after being shot seven times in 2013 and turning into an activist once he left hospital.
Just so we are clear about the allegation that the police had something to do with Seals’ death. He was shot seven times in 2013 and there has been a series of similar murders in the area but the police had something to do with this?
This is another example of what the police across America face on a daily basis. So called activists that seemingly care nothing about the violence in their street and only want to blame the very ones, the police, that are trying to stop it.
