Darren Seals was found dead in a burning car with a gunshot wound in 2016, a case that remains largely unresolved by the St. Louis County Police Department. The lack of media follow-up on his death is compared to the Seth Rich homicide in Washington D.C., suggesting that certain activists are silenced when they challenge powerful narratives. The absence of "martyr" status for Seals is interpreted as evidence that his dissent against the established movement made him politically inconvenient.