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Nolan Wells....Another Black Boy Murdered · Black Girl Interrupted Podcast

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Speaker 1: Uh uh oh, what's up? What's up? What's up? Y'all
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is your favorite girl? But the five before bringing you
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another episode of Black Girl interrupted, Hey, what's good? I
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missed y'all. Let me first start off by saying happy Tuesday.
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I hope everyone is having an amazing week thus far.
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I also want to say thank y'all for being so
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patient with me. A lot of things have happened in
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the last few weeks since my last episode, but I
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am here. Most of y'all know that my dear baby,
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Karma passed away. Do we know what happened?
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Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 1: All I know is that my baby is no longer here.
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Uh mmm, and it's it's it's been a struggle. Even
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though we only had her for just a few months,
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she really made a very, very, very big impact on
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our lives. And I miss my baby. So y'all keep
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raying for me. Maybe next year I'll be ready to
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get another Doug. Maybe we'll see. Oh God, I don't
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even know how I want to start this show tonight.
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But of course y'all know I always do my mental
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health check ins every every every episode because I need
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to know how you're feeling. I want mental health to
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not just be limited to two or three months out
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of the year, but I want it to be an
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everyday conversation, so it's imperative that I do these check
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ins at the start of every show before we jump
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into tonight's conversation. Tonight's conversation is very near and dear,
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not only to me, but everyone in the world. Tonight,
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we're gonna be touching on the death of Nolan Wells,
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eighteen year old young man from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, who
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went missing fourth of July weekend, and we still don't
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know what happened. So before we get started, let's do
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our mental health check in again. I hope everyone is
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having an amazing week thus far. I have missed y'all.
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I love y'all so dearly. I appreciate y'all still loving
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on your girls, Still support your girl, and stay tuned
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for the end because I do have some of the
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most amazing news that I would love to share with
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you guys. Hint why I was late, uh starting to
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live tonight. But ooh, your girl is excited. I'm so,
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so so excited. I can't wait. I can't wait. I
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don't know if I should tell y'all now, or should
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I wait until after the show? You know what, Let's
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wait until the end of the show to reveal the
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news because I think it'll bring a little more joy
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to the show. So before we get started, here we go,
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let's do our mental health check in and again dropping
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the comments. Let me know how you're feeling, let me
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know what's going on, let me know what I can
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do to help you on your journey. Because I am
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making commitments to show up for my people. I'm being committed,
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y'all bear with me tonight. I am in a full
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fibril flare tonight. But the show must go on. I
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have to push through because again, I've made commitments to
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show up, not just for me, but for you. So
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here we go, and then we'll get into tonight's show.
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Speaker 3: If the lion is the king of the jungle, how
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can he be the king of the jungle If he's
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not the biggest.
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Speaker 4: The elephant is probably one of the biggest.
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Speaker 3: He can't be the fastest because that's a cheatah, he.
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Speaker 5: Can't be the smartest, So he's not the biggest.
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Speaker 6: The fastest, or the smartest.
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Speaker 4: So how does the lion.
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Speaker 6: Become the king of the jungle.
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Speaker 4: Its mentality.
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Speaker 3: That's the only difference of a lion and the elephant.
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When a lion walks up and sees an elephant, he
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has lunch. Ever, some things run, and it's all mentality,
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because when a male lion walks up, he may be
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outnumbered by a pack of hyenas.
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Speaker 5: But I'm teen of my jungle because of my mentality.
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What happens when you're gazel.
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Speaker 7: And you're not being pushed, you're not being proud of,
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You're not giving it a reward, nobody's encouraging you.
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Speaker 3: What happens when you're a gazel and the lion's not
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chasing anymore, you stop running you But what happens when
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you're a lion. When you are a lion, it does
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not make a difference. You realize that if your family
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is going to eat that, if that pack of lions
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is to survive.
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Speaker 7: Then you gotta go hunts. A part of being a
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beast just ain't eating a gazelle. A part of being
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a beast is the hunt. It's the hunt that they're
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excited about. They like to see the gazelles run to poove.
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Speaker 3: They take off because real lions like the hunt. They
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love the process just as much as they love a prize,
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and some of y'all just want to score. You don't
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like the process, You're not in love with the process.
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Speaker 8: A true hunter's go it's not the prize. A true
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hunter's goal is to hunt. That's what they live for.
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They live to hunt. They don't just lamp to catch it.
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It's the whole process. When you are a true hunter, you.
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Speaker 3: Don't go by time, you'll go buy the gazelle. When
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you are a true hunter, you hunt until you get
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a gazelle, and you don't stop until you get one,
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and then you get another, and then you get another,
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and you get another. If you're gonna do what you
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say you're gonna do, be what you say you're gonna be,
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you're gonna have to lie.
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Speaker 6: In me out.
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Speaker 3: You are Gazel, You're gonna come up short. You a Gazel,
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You're gonna have an average experience.
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Speaker 4: You're a student that needs you.
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Speaker 3: In lion mode, you're an entrepreneur, I need you. In
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lion mode, you try to lose weight. Lion mode. You
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can't do nothing significant in Gazel mode. Nothing, nothing impressive
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happens in Gazel mode. Nothing happened in run mode, give
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up mode, quit mode, scared mode, fearful more, nothing happened,
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Everything happen in line more like I'm coming to get you. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I needed to hear that today when I tell you
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I've been in the bed all day. I am in
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the most excruciating thing ever. But I gotta show up
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for my people. I gotta show it for my people.
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I love y'all so much. I am so appreciative of you.
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Oh yeah, I miss my Karma, I do. I miss
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my baby, y'all. I'm not gonna get emotional. I promise
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I'm not. God I miss her I do. Oh that's
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my man. Heyboo, I love you and thank you. Thank
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you for loving me, thank you for being so supportive
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of everything that I do. Hm. But, like I said,
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Happy Tuesday, y'all, Welcome back to another episode of Black Girl.
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Interrupt the podcast. It's your favorite girl, your girl, ash oh,
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and tonight. I promise I'm not gonna get emotional. But
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it touches me because I have a son, a black
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son that has friends of all shades, tones, races, and
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every day that he goes out with his friends, I
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prayed it my son makes it back to me, m
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let me get it together. Oh but y'all know, y'all
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know I'm the biggest cry baby ever. Y'all know that
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topics like this are so I'm so passionate about because
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we are tired of our black boys and our black
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men not making it home to us. No, we can't
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let me figure out how I'm gonna word this. We
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can't keep them bottled up. We have to let them
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be in the world. But one thing that I'm gonna
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do is I'm gonna always pray not only over my husband,
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but my children, because in the last six months, maybe
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twelve months, we've seen so many black boys go missing,
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only to be found the way we were not expecting
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them to be found.
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Speaker 6: M hm.
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Speaker 1: When is enough gonna be enough? When are our black
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boys gonna be able to go old?
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Speaker 3: M h m hmm.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna push through this episode tonight. We're gonna get
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through it. But I want to speak on Nolan Wells.
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I wanna talk about Nolan Xavier.
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Speaker 8: What else.
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Speaker 1: I want to speak on an eighteen year old young
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man who's no longer here with us, taken away from
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us so tragically. Have I seen all the social media
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posts I've seen the back and forth. I've seen them say, oh,
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this is not a race thing, Yeah it is. We've
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seen this with Tamla Horsford. We've seen this with Kendrick Johnson.
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We have seen this with so many other black boys
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that have left with their non melanated friends, only never
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to be seen again. As we have this discussion tonight,
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I ask that everyone remain respectful. I ask that you
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be mindful of the things that you see. I ask
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that you respect the house rules. I ask that you
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respect others' opinions and their thoughts, because everyone has thought
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and opinions surrounding this case. I'm not a legal analyst.
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I'm not a professional, nor do I proclaim to be.
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But these are my takes and my opinions regarding the
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death of Nolan Exavier Wells. Yes, I'm gonna say his
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name because Nolan was my son, Nolan was my nephew,
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Nolan was my cousin. Nolan was my brother. So again
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I ask, as we go into the discussion of Nolan Wells,
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eighteen year old young man from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, who
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disappeared for the July weekend, was it an accident or
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was it murder? Around July second or third, Nolan Wells
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departed Horn Island with a group of friends. You know what,
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Let me correct that, with a group of associates, only
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to never be seen again. All the family wants is justice.
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All we're asking for is transparency regarding this. Ah. My
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heart goes out to not only the mother, the father,
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but to everyone in the world who has the Nolan Wells,
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to families that have lost their children in the manner
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that Nolan Wells lost his life. MM. Nolan Wells had
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his whole life ahead of him. He was on his
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way to the Southwest Mississippi College I believe, on a
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football scholarship, and he was robbed of that. A weekend
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of fun turned into a weekend of tragedy. Oh Noland,
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we love you, we miss you. We're praying that justice
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will be served for you and your family. Hasis good
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to see your beautiful absolutely hashtag Nolan Wells and we
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will say his name from here on out. We will
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be in support of justice and transper parentcy for Nolan
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Wells family. They deserve that. So for those that are
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not familiar with the case, let me bring you up
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to speed on Nolan Wells.
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Speaker 9: Search continues for a teen reported missing from Horn Island.
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Eighteen year old Nolan Xavier Wells was last same Saturday
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afternoon on the northwest tip end of Horn Island and
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joining us now live as we'll post in with the
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details on this ongoing investigation.
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Speaker 1: Good morning to you, will.
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Speaker 4: Oh, Good morning, Brandy, Good morning everybody joining us at home.
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If you were with us for our first couple of
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live shots, you saw the mobile command unit here and
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now over my shoulder you can see a couple of
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rescue boats here as well, many of them saying State
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law Enforcement on the side of them, as the search
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party is getting ready to get back up and rolling
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here from the Lake Marsh Pier. Now this is out
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in Jackson County. Nolan Wells is the subject of this search,
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an eighteen year old boy from here in Ocean Springs
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who now plays college football and now he went missing
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as of last scene at Horn Island on the northwest
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tip at three pm on Independence Day. He went out
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with a couple of buddies, but has not been seen since.
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His last scene wearing no shirt with blue swim trunks
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and sunglasses on Now the United Cajuan Navy has also
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been aiding in this search. We got a chance to
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speak with them earlier. Earlier during this search, talk about
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what needs to be known to better find Nolan.
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Speaker 6: And I've heard that he got on a different boat.
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I heard he went to a different island. I heard
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did he swam out trying to catch another boat. I
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heard a lot of different things, but I don't know
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which one is true. But I need to know exactly
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what's the last thing people saw Nolan doing. It's gonna
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make my job a lot easier.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 4: Southwest Mississippi Community College is where Nolan plays football at.
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They just recently released a statement as well. That statement saying,
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in part quote, the SMCC family is praying for the
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beloved football player Nolan Wells, his loved ones, and everyone
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involved in the search. We ask our community to join
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us in praying for Nolan's safe return. And the Jackson
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County Sheriff's Department is also asking if you have any photos, videos,
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or anything from Horn Island on Independence Day that could
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help pinpoint where Nolan could be to police, send that
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in to the department as well. Live from Jackson County,
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we'll Polson WLX News now.
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Speaker 1: So again, here we are. We have a eighteen year
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old young man, not a boy, but I'm a dinners
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from that. No, But seriously, we have an eighteen year
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old young black man who went out to hang out
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with some friends for the Fourth of July weekend again,
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only to never be heard from again. What happened? Let
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me say this, those were never friends to begin with,
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because I want to know and I get it, I
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understand certain areas. I used to live in Mississippi, in
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Biloxi for a couple of years, and let me just
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say it was not the most pleasant experience in my life.
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But that I'll save that conversation for a different day.
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But any real true friend would have been on it
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would be willing to assist a family with regards to
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what happened. We've heard conflicting stories, we've heard different timelines,
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we've seen ai photos, we've seen it all. But the
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million dollar question is what really happened. Who's gonna step
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up and say, you know what, this is what happened?
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Because an undetermined cause of death doesn't sit well with me.
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If these young men and women that Nolan was out
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with that weekend, why aren't you speaking, Why aren't you
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seeing anything. Why aren't you trying to assist in the investigation.
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Why are you not trying to bring closure to this
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young man's family. I don't understand, because see, a real
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true friend would go to not only the family, but
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to law enforcement and say this is what I saw happen.
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Oh I wish that would happen. I prayed that someone
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that was with him, or that was out there that
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saw would go to the family or contact law enforcement
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and say this is what I saw. Because again, what
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I don't understand, the only lone black man with a
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group of non melenated people was the only one that
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didn't return. And this is again not the first story
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that we've seen this happen. When is enough going to
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be enough? When are people gonna start doing the right thing?
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You have a mother and a father that are grieving
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the loss of their child. You don't think that mother
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and father deserve some type of closure so they can
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begin their journey of healing. Accountability is what we're asking for. Well,
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you know what, Let me not say, let me not
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speak for everybody, but I know for me, accountability is
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what I want for this family. Closure is what I
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want for this family. Justice is what I long for
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for this family, because again, I have a black son
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that has a lot of non mellenated friends, and I
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tell my son every day when he leaves out, be careful,
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be mindful of who you call friends. Stop going to
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everybody's house, Be mindful of who you take home. This
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is what I tell my son every day that he
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goes out. I pray that my son makes it back
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home to me period. I just had this conversation with
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my son when this case first broke news. Be mindful
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with who you take home. Because people are people are
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crazy out here. We see it happen far too many times,
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text messages being deleted, social media accounts being deleted or deactivated.
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If you don't have anything to hide, why are you
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doing all of this? That's what I want to know.
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That's what I need to understand. I don't have an
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issue with my son having non millenated friends. That's his prerogative,
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but I tell them all the time, you need to
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watch them. I may catch flak for that comment, but
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that's okay because as a black mother of three black children,
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I have to protect mine because the world is unkind
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to my children. But I don't think a lot of
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y'all are ready for that conversation. You look at Tamla Horsford,
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the young lady. We still don't know what happened to her.
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She went to the sleepover with her non melenated friends
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and wound up dead, and no one's talking. See, they'll
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protect theirs, So now it's time for us to start
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protecting ours. That's what we have to start doing. Hey
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says hey, my baby, But that's what we have to
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start doing. And we absolutely want justice for Nolan. We
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want transparency. We don't want the lies, we don't want
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the bs. We want the truth. Helped his family get
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the justice and the closure that they so rightfully deserved.
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Hey sis, hey beautiful, good to see you. But that's
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old to Nolan. So this baby can rest. This is
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what we want. We want to know if it was
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an accident, say it was an accident. If it was murder,
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let's prove that it was murder. Because again, he was
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the only black boy with non melenated people, and he
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was the only one that didn't come back home, the
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only one, the only one. Let that sink in for
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just a moment. You, as a parent, you allow your
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child to go hang out with friends and everyone comes back.
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Everyone's child comes back, but your own. You don't think
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that that's sitting well with the mother and the father
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not knowing what happened to their child. That could be
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your baby, That could be your son, that could be
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your daughter, that could be your brother, your sister, your cousin,
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your nephew. What we're doing here is we're keeping Nolan
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Well's name alive. We want to see justice from Nolan.
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I want to see his mother and father be able
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to rest a little lighter. I see the mother and
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then I see me, what if this was my baby?
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When I want someone to stay in ten toes down
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for mine? Yes, what I want someone to help to
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hold the people responsible for the loss of my child accountable. Yes,
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this is what I want for the family. I want
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this for Nolan. I want this for his family. I
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want this for his mother. I want this for his father.
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I want this for the people that really, truly, genuinely
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loved Nolan, and I want them to be able to
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sleep lighter. I want someone to be able to come
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and say, you know what, we can tell you exactly
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what happened, and we're gonna get justice. We're gonna make
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sure the people, the person or the people are responsible
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for this are punished to the maximum extent of the law.
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That's what we want, my sister says. The truth will
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definitely be revealed, and it will because see God sees everything.
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He sits high and looks low, and the truth is
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coming to light. The more we peel the layers back
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on this case, the closer we get to the truth.
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You understand, that's what happens, beautiful sister says, Amen, absolutely,
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because if this was your child, I would be up
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here doing the same thing for your baby. I don't
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have to know you to want justice for your family,
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but I have a platform that I could utilize to
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get it out to the world. You understand, So that
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way your child or your love. Let me say this,
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so that way your loved one is not forgotten. Because see,
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the first thing that happens when our children go missing
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and they're found in ways that we were not expecting
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them to go found, they love to pull up if
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they have a background. I don't care what your background is.
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I'm gonna walk with you to see justice for your
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loved one. So I see some new people have tuned
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in y'all, welcome to Black Girl Interrupted podcast. It is
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your favorite girl for the five o four Ashley bringing
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you another great episode. Tonight. We are discussing Nolan Wells.
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I'm so sorry Nolan Xavier Wells because I'm gonna say
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his name. Nolan Xavier Wells, eighteen year old black male
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from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, who disappeared fourth of July weekend
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after an outing on a boat with his friends. You
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know what, let me back up with his associates, because see,
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true friends, real friends will come and tell the truth.
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They will tell you what happened. They would be the
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first in line running to law enforcement to say, let
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me tell you what happened. We're not seeing that when
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I seen that, all I've been seeing online is you
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monkey's hate water. That's what I've been seeing. Where was
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the empathy? Where was the compassion? Because what if this
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was your child? I've seen so much as people saying, oh,
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he was drunk, he caused his own demise, Stop it
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because his rhetorica's getting real old. I've seen some of
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the most distasteful post regarding the loss of this young
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man from white and black. I've seen that instead of
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taking a time out to call us monkeys and say
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you're gonna do this that, and the third to us
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imagine if this was your child that went out with
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a group of black boys and didn't come back, which
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you still feel the same way. You remember in the
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movie of Time to Kill was Samuel L. Jackson's daughter
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was great by two white men. And at the end
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during the trial, Matthew mcconnae hay was describing to an
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all white jury what happened to this little girl? And
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then he ended by ended it by saying, what if
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she were white? Let that soak in for a minute.
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What if we had one white boy that went out
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with a group of black boys and all the black
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boys came home, but a little white boy didn't. Would
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you still have that same energy? See one thing about me,
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I've never been afraid to push the envelope. I've never
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been afraid to make you uncomfortable in conversations. But I
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want to know where that energy still be the same.
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If this were a role reversal where a little white
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boy went missing after being out with a group of
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black boys, this case would have been solved in in
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a week. I'm exaggerating the timeframe. But you get what
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I'm saying. It wouldn't have been no well this or that. No,
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It's sad that we see this so often when black
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boys and black girls, and black men and black women
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go missing, were pushed to the side. There's never a
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sense of urgency, never when one of us go missing.
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I'm gonna let y'all marinate on that for a moment. Hey, beautiful,
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I love you real big baby. I love you infinity,
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I love you absolutely. Hashtag Nolan Wells, hashtag forever eighteen.
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This was like a gut punch when I heard about this.
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I understand investigations take time, I do. I know how
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it goes, I know how it works. I'm very aware
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and I understand. But my question still remains, when we
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go missing, there's never a sense of urgency. It's always, oh,
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there's no there's oh we suspect no foul play. It
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was a suicide. It was this. It was always that
38:01
with us. But when you have Jack that goes missing,
38:10
it's a documentary on YouTube tube, be everything. It's like
38:18
the whole world stops. But when you have a de
38:22
Quine or Lakisha that goes missing, oh, that was a suicide,
38:31
that was this, that was that, And you can't sit
38:37
up here and tell me I'm wrong. Do you know
38:42
how many people you know, let me rephrase that. Do
38:46
you know how many young black men and black women
38:49
and black boys and black girls that I've sat on
38:51
my platform and I've advocated for no sense of urgency.
39:01
You have Kendrick Johnson's family, the young man from Georgia
39:06
who was found rolled up in a gym mat, whose
39:08
family is still fighting to get justice and find out
39:12
what happened to their baby. Here we are still talking
39:25
about john be name Ramsey, and y'all are still trying
39:29
to figure out who want to live to her? Y'all
39:37
want not, y'all, But the people are still talking about
39:43
Lacy Peterson and we know what happened to her, Gabby Purtito,
39:54
Natalie Holloween. But when it's one of us, there's never
40:01
a sense of urgency. We have to get out and
40:03
do the legwork. I was reading a story yesterday, I
40:08
was talking to my sister by a young man in
40:12
Alabama that went missing, left with a friend, only to
40:19
be found shot, burned and mutilated. Let that sink in
40:29
for a moment. The family found their child. The father
40:39
found their child in the woods, and he was nineteen.
40:52
I'm gonna let y'all sit on that for a moment.
40:56
I'm gonna let that soak in for just a moment.
41:03
He was n IRI's friend. That's my niece, and we
41:09
will forever tell. I'm telling you, yell Nolan Wells, because again,
41:21
we have to get out and do the legwork. What
41:24
are we paying law enforcement for if you're just gonna
41:29
sit around. I see cases like this every day. There
41:38
are some days that I have to take a break
41:39
from social media because stories like this they upset me.
41:47
They trigger me because I want to know why, I
41:59
want to know what we are not treated in the
42:03
same manner one of our loved ones goes missing. I'm
42:09
ecstatic that this Nolan Wells case has opened the door
42:17
for other stories to be told. I'm very sad that
42:23
this young man had to lose his life for other
42:26
stories to be brought to the forefront. I'm devastated because
42:36
Nolan Xavier well should still here, still be here with us,
42:39
He should still this young man should be getting ready
42:42
and ramped up a football season. But all were left
42:51
with his memories in the what ifs What if Nolan
43:00
would have never got on that boat. What if That's
43:13
what I want to know. What if we know Mississippi
43:21
to be racist? Hell we found I did the story
43:28
on the two hundred and fifteen plus graves that were
43:31
buried behind a jailhouse, so I'm not new to this.
43:42
I don't get up here and advocate for these families,
43:45
for cloud for numbers, for cliques and views. I do
43:48
it because, you know what, Nolan Wells could be my son,
43:52
Trayvon Martin could have been my son, Cyrus Carmac Belton
43:59
cut I been my son. I get up here and
44:03
I advocate because if I don't do it, who will
44:10
I have the platform to do it. I do this
44:14
because I'm passionate about this. I do this because I
44:17
love doing this. I enjoy doing this because I would
44:22
want someone to come up and do this for me
44:25
if this was one of my children. This is why
44:30
I do this. This is why I get on Black
44:32
Girl Interrupted podcast and I share and have these conversations.
44:43
I don't have a problem with having the dialogue. I
44:46
don't have a problem with having a tangible conversation, a
44:50
conducive conversation. I don't have a problem. I do this
45:01
again because I will want someone to do this for me.
45:04
If it was my child that went missing, I would
45:12
want someone to stand in solidarity with me and help
45:15
me fight to get justice. I would want someone to
45:20
stand and walk with me to try to get the
45:22
truth brought to the light, to get the people or
45:25
the person or the people that are responsible held accountable.
45:32
That's why I do this. I don't care about anything else.
45:41
I do this because I love this. I do this
45:46
because I'm passionate about this, and I'm gonna say it again.
45:51
I do this because some of y'all are afraid to
45:54
have these conversations because you don't want to offend anybody.
46:07
Nolan Wells, you are loved, you are missed absolutely. Max
46:18
Lily says he had his whole life ahead him. He did,
46:22
and he was robbed and now we're left, Max, you
46:28
know with the what ifs. What if he never would
46:34
have got on that boat, what if he would have
46:37
stayed home that weekend? Will we ever get the truth?
46:45
Will the personal people responsible this ever be held accountable?
46:48
Or will it just be ruled as a suicide or
46:54
an unfortunate accident or drowning Because I've seen that too.
47:04
I've seen that too. I've seen that. So I do
47:14
have some updates regarding the official state the autopsies of
47:21
the state's official autopsy has been completed, but there will
47:27
they will not reveal what it says. But then there's
47:35
also been some breaking news regarding the timeline and things
47:41
not adding up the times from this to that. So
47:48
they're a little long. I'm not going to play them
47:50
in their full entirety, but just kind of get to
47:53
the gist of it because I really want to get
47:55
back into this conversation. So here we are with the
47:58
state's official autopsy than has been completed. Here's an update
48:01
regarding day, and then I want to discuss the autopsy.
48:05
Here we go.
48:08
Speaker 10: We do want to continue on with some of our
48:10
top stories that we're following from this week, taking you
48:13
out to this. We have an update in a case
48:15
that is really capturing attention all across the country. We
48:19
do know that as of this weekend, the official autopsy
48:22
in the death of Nolan Wells has been completed, according
48:25
to officials who are familiar with that investigation. Results from
48:29
the State Medical Examiner's Office have not yet been made public,
48:33
but are expected to be sent to a grand jury.
48:35
This all has to do with the early July death
48:38
of Nolan Wells, an eighteen year old who was on
48:41
a boat on Horn Island before he effectively went missing.
48:45
Days later, his body surfacing, and still so many questions
48:48
as we are continuing on in the days and weeks
48:51
to follow us death, and to talk a little bit
48:53
more about what we're watching here, I'd like to bring
48:55
in a Dante Poyter, civil rights attorney. A Dante, thanks
48:58
so much for being with us here on Life.
49:00
Speaker 1: Now from Fox.
49:01
Speaker 2: Thanks for having me.
49:03
Speaker 10: Absolutely and once again I'm getting a lot of text
49:05
emails and even people reaching out to me on social
49:08
media asking questions about this case. And so since we
49:12
have the time to speak with you right now, I
49:14
want to start with some of the basics. There have
49:15
been a lot of conversations around these autopsy reports. There's
49:19
an official one from the state, but also the family
49:22
has gone on their own path to produce an independent autopsy.
49:25
What has sort of been revealed through these reports? Again,
49:28
the official one has not yet been released yet, But
49:30
what's the difference between the two and why are they
49:32
important to figuring out what ultimately happened to Nolan.
49:35
Speaker 2: Wels Sure the state autopsy is conducted first, because the
49:40
state actually had custody of Nolan's body way before the
49:44
family got their hands on the body, and we're able
49:47
to send it to an independent autopsy for an independent autopsy.
49:50
So what you have is the state actually had the
49:53
body in its most original state from once it was recovered,
49:57
and so they have the primary opportunity and duty to
50:01
investigate and examine this body for any type of science
50:04
or trauma or drowning and any other type of physical
50:08
injuries or the condition of the body. Whereas an independent examiner,
50:12
they're getting a body after the original autopsy is done,
50:15
and oftentimes the body, as once again during the autopsy
50:19
is cut open. Not only is the external body examined,
50:22
but also the internal body is examined as well as
50:25
toxicology chests of the sort to see if there are
50:27
any type of any type of intoxicins on board, alcohol
50:31
and things of that nature. So the independent autopsy is
50:34
a way for a family to get answers in advance
50:37
of the state's autopsy coming out, and oftentimes that's all
50:40
the family has because the state autopsies oftentimes take much
50:44
longer to deliver the results to the family. And as
50:46
you can imagine, if you're a family, you're anxious to
50:49
know what happened to your son.
50:52
Speaker 10: Absolutely, and so we do know from Ben Crump, he's
50:55
the attorney who's currently working there with the family. They've
50:58
been very outspoken about what they believe happened to their
51:01
son and just really wanting to know more answers from
51:04
those officials who are in charge of this investigation. But
51:07
so far as we've been talking about that independent autopsy,
51:09
we do know that the family released some information indicating this.
51:14
They said publicly that the determined and cause the manner
51:17
of death is undetermined, pending investigation. Legally, what does undetermined
51:22
mean and why might this information that this independent autopsy
51:26
brings also be able to be reconciled with what the
51:29
state has in order to put together the real pieces
51:32
of what happened to Nolan Wells.
51:34
Speaker 2: All Right, Well, the independent autopsy and the person who
51:37
conducted it, forensic examiner, was not able to reach a
51:41
final conclusion about the cause of death. Why because they
51:44
were missing significant parts of Nolan Wells's body, in particular
51:48
his LARNINGX and his throat, which may lead evidence, lead
51:52
to evidence or maybe evidence towards saying that he was
51:55
chosen or asphyxiated or things of that nature. Are also
51:59
that he took on water and he drowned, because that
52:01
was the initial story that was put out and that
52:04
was what officials suspected, or at least they said they suspected,
52:08
was that he drowned. And so not having the throat,
52:10
which could be evidence of maybe some foul play, is
52:14
super important. And without really fully examining the body, a
52:18
forensic examiner cannot rule out or rule in a particular
52:23
cause of death. So that's critical for the families, for
52:27
the family to get that information.
52:29
Speaker 10: And so Dante, I want to ask you this. We've
52:31
seen several videos that have surfaced online TMZ, who's some
52:34
of our partners here at Thoughts. They have obtained video
52:37
of some of the moments where Nolan Wells was last
52:40
seen there on the island. He's there on several boats,
52:43
he seems to be with the crowd of people. So
52:45
my question for you is about witnesses and the story
52:47
that they'll be able to tell in order to help
52:49
move along in this investigation. How critical are some of
52:53
those eye accounts of people who are there on Horn
52:55
Island to get together the pieces that really determine Nolan
52:59
Wells life the last few hours as he was alive.
53:02
Speaker 2: Witness accounts and their statements are critical. They are actually
53:06
very pivotal to try to piece together what took place
53:10
because the witnesses have essentially first hand information as to
53:14
whatson place, who was involved in how this whole thing
53:18
came to be. And also you can use those witness
53:20
accounts to either undermine or contradict, or to further probe
53:24
bended with maybe some of the initial statements were made
53:26
by his friends who actually sailed out to Horn Island
53:30
with him and ultimately left him, at least their claims
53:33
are that they left him on Horn Island. So it's
53:35
going to be critical to interview each and every one
53:37
of those witnesses, no matter when they saw Nolan or
53:41
if it was before or after his friends left, because
53:43
that's going to determine the circumstances, the mind state he
53:46
was in, whether there was any type of arguments, any
53:48
type of disagreements, whether they saw him with the phone,
53:51
because as we know, the phone made it back to
53:54
Mississippi and on to Land, whereas Nolan supposedly left opts
53:58
to say Nolan stayed, did not take the boat right
54:01
back with his friends, and that I think most people
54:03
will find that pretty odd that a person would leave
54:05
their boat, I mean, would leave their phone and not
54:09
have it with them while they plan to stay behind
54:11
and let their flans go on about their business for
54:14
the day. That's just a little odd and odd factor
54:16
that I'm sure the family is, you know, really trying
54:19
to get.
54:19
Speaker 1: To the bottom of.
54:20
Speaker 10: And yes, especially in this.
54:21
Speaker 1: Day, I'm I want to talk about that for a moment,
54:33
because again, the clip was is like nine minutes long,
54:36
and I didn't want to bore y'all out playing the
54:40
clip in its entirety, but I will post it to
54:42
my page to anyone that is interested in looking at
54:45
the continue you know, finishing out what they had to see.
54:49
But let's start with the cell phone. Because as she
54:56
was about to see, and as she continues to see
54:58
in the interview, in this day and age, who's leaving
55:01
their cell phone? In this day and age and this
55:07
climate and this temperature of the world, you see everybody
55:11
with their cell phones. Everybody. You don't see not one
55:16
person like this with a cell phone in their head,
55:23
because that's like me saying, Oh, I'm gonna travel to
55:27
New Orleans, but I'm gonna leave my phone here in
55:29
Houston like that. That makes zero sense because again, in
55:36
this climate, everybody has their cell phone ever, everybody old, young,
55:41
and everybody in between. So that's number one. Then you
55:48
have number two because I did see a couple of
55:51
people posting saying they were a little conflicted about the autopsy.
55:57
The throat and the layer nex were missing whenever an
56:01
autopsy is conducted. And the only reason I know this
56:03
is because my daughter just graduated with a bachelor's in
56:06
criminal justice and she has explained and broken things down
56:10
for me. And as she was explaining to me as
56:16
well as the gentleman that was in the video clip,
56:21
that's imperative, especially with the manner of his death. So
56:31
that's imperative to note. Was he did he drown? Was
56:35
he expiciated, asphyxiated, strangled and thrown into the water? So
56:42
why was that not all sent? That reminds me again,
56:46
that takes me back to the story of Kendrick Johnson.
56:50
When Kendrick Johnson went missing after they completed the autopsy,
56:57
how dare you not send all his parts. My sister says,
57:07
my heart aches for his family, his parents and loved ones. Absolutely,
57:13
because again, you have this eighteen year old young man
57:22
who died under mysterious circumstances, and you mean to tell
57:26
me you're not going to send the most imperative organs
57:31
with the body for the independent autopsy. Make this make
57:41
sense to me? Because to me of me and this again,
57:50
this is only my opinion. What are you guys trying
57:54
to cover up? Because other stories that I've looked into
58:02
and read about that have happened in Mississippi under this
58:06
same medical examiner have all come back, Oh, no foul play.
58:11
It was a suicide. It was this, it was that.
58:15
Why is this medical examiner not under investigation? Who are
58:22
you trying to protect? It's also alleged that the young
58:29
woman that was friends or girlfriend of Nolan Wells. I
58:33
don't know, is I believe the daughter of the judge
58:38
and the judge's friends with the medical examiner. Again, no
58:48
sense of urgency. Again, I feel like we're getting the
58:55
run around. I feel like they're just seeing whatever just
59:00
to appease us. But again, when I saw that the
59:11
autopsy was completing, and the things that were being said,
59:19
my flabber was gassed, as they say, because why are
59:31
we not getting transparency? You have a mother and a
59:39
father that are grieving. And me, again, I'm not a
59:45
legal analyst, I'm not an attorney. I'm not a medical examiner.
59:48
I'm not a professional in that field. But I am
59:52
a mother, So I understand. And then the people that
1:00:02
are saying, oh, he was drunk, he had too much
1:00:07
to drink, We don't know that. You're just making assumptions
1:00:13
on information that hasn't even really fully been revealed. So
1:00:19
shout out to all the Facebook detectives, Shout out to
1:00:27
the woman that cleared the audio. Do I believe that
1:00:36
this was murdered? Yeah, but again that's just my opinion
1:00:44
and my patiently waiting to see what the autopsy really
1:00:48
truly revealed. Absolutely, I think we all are. We wanna
1:00:58
know what happened. We just want the truth. We just
1:01:08
want pure transparency, just like so many other black men
1:01:16
and black women and black boys and black girls that
1:01:19
have lost their lives so tragically only to be told
1:01:22
or it was a suicide. The story I told you
1:01:27
all a couple of weeks ago about the young man
1:01:28
that was at the festival who reported his friends to
1:01:34
the police and then a few hours later wound up
1:01:36
dead in the woods. Or the other young man in
1:01:41
Mississippi who was found hanging with two broken legs, Or
1:01:52
the young man whose story I shared that I read
1:01:53
about yesterday, who was found in the woods, burned, shot, mutilated,
1:02:08
Or the young man that witnesssing back in April, who
1:02:13
was found in a lake and two people were only
1:02:18
arrested for tampering with evidence. We're seeing this far too often,
1:02:30
but never justice being served, Never justice being served. You
1:02:41
don't feel like these parents, families of these loved ones
1:02:46
deserve some type of justice, some type of closure. Some
1:02:55
of you may agree, some of you may disagree. Y'all
1:03:04
tussling back and forth on social media, hurling racial epithets
1:03:09
at us because we're tired, we're exhausted. I remember when
1:03:20
my niece went missing, no sense of urgency, only to
1:03:28
be found in a manner that we didn't want her
1:03:30
to be found in, along with another young lady, and
1:03:35
police had the suspect right up under their nose the
1:03:37
entire time. So yeah, this is personal to me, Nolan Wells,
1:03:52
It's personal. The countless other young black men and black women,
1:03:58
and black girls and black boys that have gone missing.
1:04:01
This is personal. I need y'all to have that same
1:04:08
energy when little Lion tell Carly Russell. I need y'all
1:04:14
to have that same energy for nol In Wells and
1:04:16
that and we seek and demand justice not only for
1:04:21
Nolan Wells, but the others, the others. I want that
1:04:34
same energy. I want justice for Kendrick Johnson, Tamila Horsford,
1:04:49
Trey Read. The list goes on and on and on.
1:04:55
I want documentaries for them. I want movies for them.
1:05:05
I want law enforcement to do their job. I want
1:05:09
the same sense of urgency that white people get. That's
1:05:19
what I want. We want to know Nolan Well's family
1:05:29
wants to know. His loved ones, want to know his
1:05:31
real friends want to know. We're tired of the lies.
1:05:42
We're tired of the contradictions. We're tired of oh well
1:05:46
it was know. We're tired. We are fatigued and miss
1:05:55
me with that. But y'all kill each other, we know.
1:06:01
But when we do it, justice has served. As I
1:06:08
tell y'all all the time. When Ray Ray Ray kills Pooky,
1:06:14
guess what Ray Ray has sentenced to the fullest extent
1:06:17
of the law. He is, he's found, he's brought to justice,
1:06:28
and he's punished. But when it's the others that kill us,
1:06:37
it was, oh, we didn't find any foul play. They
1:06:41
get a slap on the wrist. Retired. We're exhausted. We
1:06:54
are so some of the other updates that have come
1:07:00
in regarding the Nolan Wells case. I do see there's
1:07:04
new people that have tuned in. So again, y'all, welcome
1:07:07
back or welcome to Black Girl interrupt the podcast. It's
1:07:10
your girl, ass your favorite girl from the Fible for
1:07:13
bringing you another beautiful episode tonight. We're discussing Nolan Wells.
1:07:18
Was it an accident or was it murder? There have
1:07:24
been some other news that have come in today regarding
1:07:28
the timeline. Things aren't adding up, things aren't matching. It's
1:07:35
saying it was this time, it was that time. So
1:07:39
let's see again. This is a pretty long clip. But
1:07:41
again I'm not gonna play the clip in its entirety,
1:07:44
maybe three minutes just to kind of get the gist
1:07:47
of it, because I want to keep this conversation going.
1:07:49
Speaker 5: So here we go, and then it gives a working timeline.
1:07:54
They started at three twenty three pm. They're saying it's unresolved.
1:07:57
No continuous chronologists established in the supplied package. Three twenty three,
1:08:03
the supplied vertical screen recording displays a phone clock and
1:08:06
then the ghost to tell you at that user identified
1:08:09
this as the start of the critical gap. This is
1:08:11
the critical gap. That's a little bit later here, right
1:08:15
between three twenty three, four to twenty seven and four
1:08:18
thirty one. User identifies this as the start of the
1:08:21
critical gap. Exact time and corroberating source are not contained
1:08:25
in the supplied media package. Okay. And then four to
1:08:29
twenty seven, a second supplied vertical screen recording displays a
1:08:34
phone a clock four twenty seven while showing boats people
1:08:37
in the anchorage time indicator potentially highly relevant. And then
1:08:42
it gives you the NAIN NP four what is it
1:08:44
B three whatever, and that is the image number that
1:08:47
they can refer to. And then four thirty one, the
1:08:49
boat on which Nolan arrived at Horn Island departed at
1:08:52
sixteen thirty on. As we said, per the user supply timeline,
1:08:55
the supplied package does not include the underlying GPA engine
1:09:01
AIS record, proving this time again this is their analysis.
1:09:07
Nothing has been proved. Yet it's still this all this,
1:09:10
even this analysis, this report has to be corroborated and investigated,
1:09:15
and people are going to go through it. And yes,
1:09:18
I believe investigators are going to use this, okay, asserted Hinge.
1:09:22
Underlying record not supplied.
1:09:24
Speaker 4: Okay.
1:09:25
Speaker 5: So then five o'clock, five o'clock Matthew Lamp states a
1:09:30
passenger was pretty certain a person was part of a
1:09:33
group that was almost fighting around five pm. He says
1:09:39
the bertram with blue top left shortly afterwards and fast
1:09:48
not believed to be a factor at this time, but
1:09:51
they don't know. It is secondhand and it's social media claim,
1:09:56
they say, five pm, inflicting. Melissa Thomas disputes the identification,
1:10:04
states a different young man was with the group and
1:10:06
says they spoke to the boys, one of whom had
1:10:09
an entire vodka bottle, conflicting social media claim. And yes,
1:10:16
the way this case is being handled does not seem normal.
1:10:20
SR Warren one O three go to the next one.
1:10:26
So we've heard about these we've heard about the fights,
1:10:28
we've heard about the arguments, and then it shows do
1:10:31
your correspondence later uses eighteen hundred GCST, which Central Standard
1:10:38
Time six pm with the origin vessel GPS DATAM for
1:10:44
SAAR sonar planning. This should not be interpreted automatically as
1:10:48
a sighting time documented search planning time seven thirty Caitlin
1:10:53
Bouchard states that they were parked next to the group
1:10:56
and he was nowhere in sight when they left at
1:10:59
seven thirty. Social media claim four thirty four to fifty
1:11:02
pm six fifty CST new supplied shoreline photographs shows the
1:11:08
crowded anchorage Frontier Bay. That's a boat. Vote number two
1:11:13
is no longer in its earlier original position, matching the
1:11:19
positional change seen in the later flight video still user
1:11:27
supplied capture time direct visual configuration. So if this is
1:11:32
from an aerial that is something that is has more
1:11:38
validity than a social media claim. Although witnesses are very important.
1:11:43
Witnesses are very important. And then we have the as
1:11:46
we have said before, as they were pointing out the
1:11:48
critical interval Andy, which is number six. Here, the critical
1:11:54
interval the period requiring the most scrutiny. As I said,
1:11:56
this is the most important thing. The period requiring the
1:12:00
most scrutiny is the interval between the last independently corroborated
1:12:04
sighting of Nolan and the asserted four point thirty one
1:12:08
PM Triton departure. This is the critical time. The three
1:12:13
twenty three and four to twenty seven visual material may
1:12:16
bracket or illuminate part of that interval, but only in
1:12:21
the displayed clock times. If the displayed clock times can
1:12:24
be authenticated as corresponding to the original event recordings. The
1:12:29
supplied media does not close the gap because they don't
1:12:33
know if this four to twenty seven, if it was
1:12:34
accurate through twenty three. They don't know which, which they
1:12:37
would imagine would have captured, perhaps from video that they
1:12:41
have gotten, or from an aerial or from wherever they
1:12:44
got it. Okay, that is the critical point right there
1:12:47
that I've been saying.
1:12:49
Speaker 2: So scroll up.
1:12:51
Speaker 5: Let's scroll a little bit, all right.
1:12:52
Speaker 2: So we have all that.
1:12:53
Speaker 5: We got the boat one, we've got Boat X, we
1:12:55
got Okay, we know that their movement, their occupancy, they
1:12:58
have been scanning and tracking all of that. Keep going, okay,
1:13:00
because I want to get to some of the images.
1:13:02
And then they have what the triton is doing.
1:13:04
Speaker 9: They have that.
1:13:04
Speaker 5: So here we go. This chair is squeaky, so don't
1:13:09
think there's something else. Okay, So here's the thing. This
1:13:14
is the comparative configuration. You see all those people in
1:13:17
the water, and that's what they call the vessel cluster.
1:13:22
Now you see why I don't like those that. Now
1:13:27
you see why I don't like the clusters.
1:13:29
Speaker 6: Look at that.
1:13:29
Speaker 5: That's too many people in the water, too many people
1:13:33
in neck deep water. Too much can go on. You
1:13:39
lose track of your buddy. You don't know where it is.
1:13:41
It could be let me just be on. It could
1:13:43
be under a boat, could be stuck in something, could
1:13:47
be stuck in an anchor. You have no idea with
1:13:51
all of these things. And that is okay. So that's five.
1:13:55
A source annotation shows boat X between boat number one
1:14:00
and BOTE number two. Okay. And then you have the
1:14:04
fight video. Botex is missing vote one point of view.
1:14:11
This was taken from BOTE one and that's the point
1:14:16
of view from BOTE one. I just I want to
1:14:18
look at these pictures.
1:14:19
Speaker 1: Keep going.
1:14:19
Speaker 5: These pictures are very important. That's where I think you're
1:14:22
going to get a lot of the information. And then
1:14:24
you have that's the fight video that everyone is talking about. Right,
1:14:28
Apparently there was a fight. The member that give me
1:14:30
my f and phone. They said they couldn't tell who
1:14:32
it was. A guy said it was him, and then
1:14:35
someone else said, no, it was Nolan. Right, Still don't
1:14:38
know for sure, but the friend said no, I was
1:14:40
the one saying give me my phone. And then there
1:14:43
are others who have disputed that on board the Triton.
1:14:47
So this is Nolan. This is geospatial timeline. He is
1:14:52
on board the Titan with one of his friends. The Triton,
1:14:57
excuse me, the Triton, the Triton with one of his friends.
1:15:01
And then there is you can see the Triton right there,
1:15:05
the back of it. You see a dark skinned man
1:15:08
on the back looks like sometimes these kids are so
1:15:10
tan you can't tell they're out in the sun all day.
1:15:12
And then then there's the Palm Beach, which is another boat,
1:15:15
and then there is boat number three. Okay, keep scrolling,
1:15:19
keep scrolling, Andy, let's go through this. And it tells
1:15:22
you the photographs, right, it says the bayfrontier position changes sources.
1:15:25
A newly supplied photograph is represented at having been taken
1:15:28
at sixteen fifty CST, which would be after the sixteen
1:15:34
thirty one. So if this is sixteen fifty after that,
1:15:41
is that Nolan nineteen minutes after the users supplied sixteen
1:15:45
thirty one departure of the boat on which Nolan arrived
1:15:48
at Horn Island keep visual observations. Frontier Bay Boat number
1:15:53
two is no longer in the earlier original position in
1:15:56
Figure five A. This is consistent with the later flight video.
1:16:00
Still where the vessel figuration was was likewise changed, has
1:16:05
likewise changed analytical significance here. So this is where they're
1:16:09
going to say. If the sixteen fifty capture time is authenticated.
1:16:13
The photograph established an upper bound time Frontier Bay had
1:16:17
moved from its earlier position by sixteen fifty. It does
1:16:20
not establish the exact minute of the movement, destination occupants,
1:16:25
or any connection between that movement and Nolan's disappearance. Nolan
1:16:30
possibly in the photo but not confirmed.
1:16:34
Speaker 3: But not.
1:16:37
Speaker 5: Confirmed, but possibly in the photo. What on earth is
1:16:43
happening here? Was it him? What time was that taken?
1:16:50
Sometimes these investigations or these analysis can lead to more
1:16:54
questions than answers. Thanks for watching, everybody, I appreciate you.
1:16:59
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1:17:03
Speaker 1: Oh that is a lot to process. So this was
1:17:14
breaking today. This was from the Cajun Navy. What was
1:17:21
that Nolan was on that boat in between those times
1:17:26
because we saw him. So if we're doing military time,
1:17:32
sixteen hundred is four o'clock, was that Nolan on the boat?
1:17:39
Was that Nolan in the water? Who was it? And
1:17:46
some of the people in the comments were saying, this
1:17:48
is getting messier by the day. Absolutely, but it's becoming
1:17:52
a lot clearer. None of this has yet been authenticated
1:18:00
or confirmed. But the real question is what really happened
1:18:07
to Nolan Wells. That's what we're all wanting to know.
1:18:13
That's what we're all rooting for and praying for that
1:18:19
the truth does come to the life. Again. I understand
1:18:26
investigations take time, and I would like for it to
1:18:32
take time because I wanted to be a thorough investigation
1:18:36
because again we've seen a lot of the conflicting stories
1:18:40
the times of when they saw Noland first to when
1:18:44
they saw Nolan last. But there's always three sides to
1:18:51
a story, their side, the investigation, and then the truth
1:18:59
lies in the middle. I just want someone whoever was
1:19:10
on that boat with Nolan that day, was out on
1:19:13
that water with Nolan, or someone else that was on
1:19:16
another boat that saw because I wonder know what happened.
1:19:20
Was that really truly a fight? Was that Nolan that
1:19:25
said that said? Was it Nolan that said give me
1:19:28
my FN phone? Or was it someone else? These are
1:19:39
all theories again, no validity to them at all. None
1:19:49
of this again has been authenticated, you know how Ai is.
1:19:55
And like Don Lemon said, we're not sure if that
1:19:58
was Nolan or not. And again the million dollar question
1:20:07
goes back to why would Nolan leave his phone? Again,
1:20:19
in this climate and in this temperature of this new generation,
1:20:23
no one is ever without their cell phone. You're walking
1:20:27
to the grocery store, somebody's on their phone. You're going
1:20:30
to Starbucks, somebody's on their phone. You're going to the
1:20:33
movie theaters, somebody's on their phone. Everyone has their phone
1:20:37
in their hand at all times unless they're a seat.
1:20:43
So make this make sense to me. Make this make
1:20:49
sense to me. I want to know, as much as
1:20:56
everyone else does, what happened to Nolan Wells. I pray
1:21:05
for this family daily because again I sit on a
1:21:12
platform that I created not only for me, but for y'all,
1:21:18
for us to have these conversations. If this were my child,
1:21:26
I would want someone to do this for me. I
1:21:33
want justice. I want closure for the family and the
1:21:42
loved ones of knowing Xavier Wells, a life taken far
1:21:51
too soon. As the young lady in the Chad said,
1:21:56
the young man had his whole life ahead of him.
1:22:04
We have to be Nolan Wells's voice. We have to
1:22:10
walk with his family. We have to hold uphold up.
1:22:15
We have to hold his family up because they need
1:22:20
all the prayer and love and comfort in this time.
1:22:26
You have a mother and a father that are begging
1:22:30
for the truth. You have love his loved ones that
1:22:38
I'm pretty sure they want to get back. When is
1:22:47
enough going to be enough? Again, you look at the timeline,
1:22:59
we look at the odd tope, key things missing. But again,
1:23:07
I know investigations take time, and I would rather for
1:23:14
them to take the time to give a thorough investigation
1:23:17
than to rush and feed us some bs. Not only us,
1:23:21
but the family. Yeah, that's what I would love for
1:23:31
the family. So my final thoughts as we get ready
1:23:39
to bring this episode to a close. What really happened
1:23:46
on July the fourth on Horn Island. Was it a
1:23:53
tragic accident or was it a murder? Was that Northern
1:24:01
Wells and those photos on that boat at the times
1:24:04
that they say he was there or was it not?
1:24:12
Who are they protecting? What are they covering up? Why
1:24:19
was the most important organs of his body not sent
1:24:26
when the family one of the independent autopsy shout out
1:24:32
to Colin Kaepernick for paying for this independent autopsy for
1:24:38
the family of Nolan Xavier Wells. Despite how y'all may
1:24:42
feel about Colin Kaepernick, he still does good will true
1:24:51
justice ever come. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
1:25:00
But to know then, Xavier Wells, your life mattered. It's
1:25:09
so tragic that your life had to end for other
1:25:11
stories to come to the forefront. We will forever yell
1:25:18
your name. We will never let you be forgotten. It's
1:25:29
sad that we are left with the what ifs? Where
1:25:34
do we go from here? Another episode today? Down for
1:25:44
the books? Another episode so to change the temperature, a
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