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Black and MISSING (Breaking News Episode) · Black Girl Interrupted Podcast

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Black Girl rusty. Y'all already know how erupted. Y'all already know how Black
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Girl is rusty. Mm hmm. What's up, y'all? What's up?
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What's up? Y'all? Welcome to another episode of Black Girl interrupted. So
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y'all know, typically I don't go live on Mondays. Typically, y'all know,
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I'm live every Tuesday, every Thursday ate thirty pm Central Time, nine
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thirty pm Eastern Time. But there are a few things that I want to
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address that I've been seeing floating around on social media. Some of y'all,
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I may piss off tonight, some of y'all men from me, I don't
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care. But I've seen some of the most ignorant shit come across these social
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media outlets that it's ridiculous. I think it's sad, I think it's pathetic,
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and I think some of y'all really need some intense therapy. But anyway,
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y'all welcome again, like I say, to another episode of a Black
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Girl and to rupt that. Like I said, y'all know, I typically
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do not go live on Monday night, but it's imperative that I addressed this
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today. I couldn't wait till tomorrow. I wanted to do it today,
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So I'm gonna take a break tomorrow after tonight's episode. I'm definitely gonna take
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a break tonight, and I'll see y'all back on Thursday. Because I'm definitely
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gonna take a break tonight. I promise, I'm definitely definitely gonna after tonight's
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episode, I'm absolutely gonna need tomorrow Wednesday off, and I'll see y'all on
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Thursday. So hey says girl, Welcome y'all, Girl, welcome to another
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episode of Black Girl. At her off that But AnyWho, y'all know,
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I always always start off with something positive. I always start off with something
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encouraging, something uplifting. I always do that. But tonight I'm gonna say
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that for the end because see, I'm gonna pray for some of you,
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some of you people out here today. I'm gonna praying for some of y'allcause
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some of y'all really do need prayer. Some of y'all lack empathy, some
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of y'all lack compassion, some of y'all just lack common sense period all together.
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So tonight's episode, absolutely I am gonna address Carl Russell. But before
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I even get to a story. I want to address the black girls that
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the black and brown girls that go missing the ale and get zero to little
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media coverage, and then I'm gonna roll into car Then I'm gonna address the
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Carly Russell situation. So let me do my mental health check in first.
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Let me let me just check in with everybody. I want to know how
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you're feeling mentally. Like I say, happy Monday, It's back to the
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work week. It's back to the ground for some people. The grind doesn't
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stop. For me. I'm always in grind, Molde always, I'm always
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trying to make a way out of no way. But I'm always sure for
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me. But again, happy Monday. I hope everyone has had a beautiful
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weekend. I hope you had a beautiful weekend. I hope everyone has so
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far had a beautiful Monday. Despite all the foolishness and all the foolery that
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has been going on in this world these last seventy two hours, ninety six
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hours, these last few days, let me just say that. But I
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just wanted to address this tonight because this Carly Russell story, it's very personal
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to me. Anyone that has followed my story, anyone that not my story,
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but anyone that has followed Black Girl Interrupted. I have spoken out about
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sex trafficking. I have spoken about it. I even share the story of
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my niece. But I guess it's time for me to revisit this conversation because
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again, some of the things that I've been seeing flowing around on social media
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is absolutely sickening to me. I'm feeling good too, Sis. You know,
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I'm on a thousand today, Me and you just we just got out
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the phone. You know. You know I'm on a thousand right now,
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So my adrenaline is going because again I'm absolutely triggered by this situation that's going
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on with Carl Russell. I'm absolutely triggered. So again, let me know
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dropping the comments, how y'all are feeling. I love you guys. I
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pray for you guys day. I hope whatever it is that you're going through,
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I hope you'll make it through. So without further ado, I'm ready
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to just jump into the conversation. I'll save all the love emoshy stuff for
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the end. So tonight's conversation, I'm talking about Black Girl Gone. And
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when I say black Girl Gone, I want to address the countless black and
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brown girls that go missing daily and no one bats a eye. I wish
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the same energy that y'all are still putting into the disappearance and Natalie Holloway and
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that happened with twenty something years ago. I wish y'all would put that same
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energy into the black and brown girls that go missing daily. Let me take
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a deep breath, because I'm telling y'all I'm about to let loose today.
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I really truly am, because again, this is personal to me. This
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is personal. This ain't nothing that I'm experiencing, experiencing something that I've seen
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on TV. No, this is personal. This right here here has hit
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home and it triggered me, and I said, you know what, I've
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got to revisit this conversation. I've got to start doing more episodes about black
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and brown girls that go missing and why there's little to no media coverage.
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And if it is, it's very brief. I will say this, I'm
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very grateful that Carly Russell is home safe. I will start off by saying
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that that's one black girl that the world has saved, but at whose expense?
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But we'll get into that later. But again, tonight's conversation with talking
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about black girl gone. The countless black girls and brown girls that go missing
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daily is ridiculous, and there's nothing being done about it. I have seen
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when white girls go missing. I've seen equal search get involved. I've seen
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people put up hundreds and thousands of dollars. I've even so much as seen
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billboards. I've seen news coverage everywhere when white girls go missing, but never
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for the girls that look like me. It pisces me off. It upsets
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me because you white people cannot say all lives matter until Black lives matter.
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Okay, So let me go ahead and put that on the table right now,
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because y'all keep saying, oh, that's racist. Y'all are trying to
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divide the country. You keep it divided because you don't make us feel important.
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Black are under attack right now. Every time you turn on the news,
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a black girl missing, a black girl kidnapped, a black girl dad,
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and you don't bat an eye. But you will invest hundreds and hundreds
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and thousands of dollars for the Becky that goes missing. But you're gonna do
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it for little little shi sheet right here that goes missing. So you can't
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sit and say that all lives matter until all black lives matter. You understand
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what I'm saying, until black lives starts to matter. Because regardless of what
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y'all say, black women are more likely to go missing, and they're gonna
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go ahead and put that up there for you. Black women are more likely
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to go missing but receive less news coverage than missing white women. Y'all can
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argue with me all day, because I'm on my soul box today, I'm
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on my ship to day, but you can't argue with numbers. And know
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these statistics are not statistics. Excuse me, are not skewed. They're not
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something I'm made up. Anytime I bring y'all any type of information, I'm
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always gonna bring receipts. I'm gonna always bring receipts. So, according to
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the study Missing White Women's Syndrome and Empirical Analysis of Race and Gender Disparities and
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online news coverage of missing persons, black people were significantly underrepresented in the population
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of missing persons who receive coverage, even though missing people of color make up
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nearly forty percent of all missing person cases. And don't forget y'all, we
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only make up thirteen percent of the population. M Yeah, black and brown
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women go missing at higher rates than white women. And then the analysis also
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found white women were over represented in news coverage, accounting for more than half
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a missing person coverage when they make a thirty percent of missing persons cases.
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Let me run that back for y'all one more time, because a lot of
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y'all love to argue in your life, the tussle and the comments, but
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again, Black people were significantly underrepresented. So we were underrepresented in the population
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of missing persons who received coverage even though missing people of color make up nearly
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forty percent of all missing persons cases. And then you have the white women
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that only make a thirty percent, they get overrepresented. And this is statistics
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as of twenty twenty three. Not argue with your mom for y'all to say
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again that all lives matter. How when we make up forty percent of all
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missing persons cases and we only make up thirteen percent of the population. Somewhat
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the math ain't mad then, But somehow, in this warm little sense of
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mind that you guys have, feel like we don't matter. Black women are
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the most underappreciated and disrespected that walk this earth. I don't know why we're
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hated so much. But yet y'all want to be so much like us.
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I said it. See a lot of y'all be afraid to say things so
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not to offend people. I don't care because I represent for the people that
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look just like me, and I'm gonna always stand front incenter for the people
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that look like me. Again, you can say whatever you want. Just
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because I'm pro black doesn't mean I'm anti white, because there are some white
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people out here that you know what I'm saying. I guess you know,
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rock and do what they need to do. But if some of y'all that
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don't, so, I'm addressing you ignorant ones, the ones that feel like
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they're so privileged. But I'm here to tell you black women matter, Black
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men matter, Black girls matter, black boys matter. We matter, whether
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you want to believe it or not, whether you like that or not,
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we matter, we matter, and we're gonna keep showing up the way that
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we do. We're gonna keep showing up the way that we do. Hey
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that hey girl, my Sis says, the numbers are staggering. Speak those
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factses Nat says, yes, this the math is way off. Again.
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We only out of all these missing person cases, forty percent are people of
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color and only thirty percent of white women thirty percent, but they're overrepresented.
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When black women go missing, no one bats a eye, No one bats
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a eye. You want to know why, because when black girl, black
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and brown girls go missing, we're not listed as missing. We're listed as
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runaways. And the only reason I know that it's because that's how they listed
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my niece before my niece was killed. So that's what I mean when I
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say this is personal to me. So it's imperative that I speak for her
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and the countless other black and brown girls that have gone missing that may have
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been found or may not have been found. It's imperative that I sit right
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here behind this camera and I speak for her, and I speak for the
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other little black girls and black boys and black men and black women. They
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go missing and get zero to media and get zero to little media coverage.
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I'm here to tell your story. That's what I'm here to do today.
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That's why tonight's conversation is called black Girl Gone, because black girls go missing
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every day and going back tonight sickening, very sickening to me. And again,
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you can't say all lives matter until black lives matter, and don't get
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on your soapbox talking about well, you black people kill each other every day
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and your white people kill each other every day for insurance money. Now what
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I told you, I'm on my ship today. I'm on my soap box
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today. I'm on it, and I'm shouting for the rooftops. I'm speaking
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for every black and brown girl that has gone missing, that has been kidnapped.
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I'm speaking for them today. I'm representing them today. That's what I'm
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doing today. So again, y'all, welcome to another episode a Black Girl
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Interrupted. Tonight's conversation is Black Girl Gone? Yes, I am going to
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speak on the car It Russell situation because I have a lot to say with
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regards to that, because I don't like some of the things that are being
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set. Do I feel like the authorities or or some type of explanation or
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something. Yes, they do, but I'm gonna save that for later on
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in the show. But I'm definitely gonna get back to that because I want
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to address that. I tell you I'm on one today, I'm on a
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thousand period. But again, y'all, welcome again to another episode of Black
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Girl Interrupt that I appreciate everyone that's tuning in with me tonight. I appreciate
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the continuous love and support. But I got to rip a scab off of
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this now I do. I told y'all twenty twenty three was personal. I
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told y'all I was coming, I was shaking the table. I told you
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that's what I was doing, and I'm here to do it. So the
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question is, why is there a little to no media coverage when black or
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brown people go missing? Or yeah, that's right, I forgot. We
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don't matter. But I have a video table. It's good to see you,
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honey. I hope you're having a great, a great Monday, Happy
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Monday. But ever since Carly Russell's story broke when she went missing on thirty
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O, I'm so sorry. On Saturday, Thursday Thursday, at about nine
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thirty pm, she went missing. But I want to talk about what this
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has done, what this Carly Russell's story has done. So here we're going.
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Then we're getting back into the conversation a new attend tonight. We're new
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talk about the creation of an alert system to help find missing women and children
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of color. The recent case of a missing woman in Alabama sparked that this
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view South Airport of Lamonica. Peters is live in San Jose with more from
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a local advocate who says having a specific system in place to alert the community
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will help keep more black women and children safe. Lamonica State Senator Stephen Bradford
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says more needs to be done to help locate missing black women and children because
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they don't often get an Amber alert when they are missing. Four months ago,
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he introduced the Ebony Alert, and he is working to make sure that
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the city of Oakland also is implementing this system. Police officers who were already
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in route to the location of the initial nine one one call located the female's
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vehicle, as well as some of her belongings at the scene. Carlthia Carly
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Russell was reported missing on July thirteenth in Hoover, Alabama, after telling police
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and a family member that she stopped to help a toddler alone on the road.
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After extensive national and social media attention, Russell's safely returned to her family's
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home forty eight hours later. Police are still investigating and havn't released details about
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what happened to Russell. This has definitely opened away and opened more of a
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conversation and awareness about this national epidemic of black women and girls missing at a
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very alarming rate. Oakland based advocate Amina Ahmad says hundreds of black women and
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men are reported missing in Oakland each year. State Senator Stephen Bradford introduced the
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Ebony Alert Bill or Senate Bill six seventy three in March, hoping to implement
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a state wide system for missing black women and children, much like the Amber
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Alert. The City of Oakland has already adopted an Ebony Alert system. They
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are encouraging first responders, law enforcement agencies, dispatchers to really put a high
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prioritization on cases of black women and girls once they come missing. According to
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the Black and Missing Foundation, black children are thirty eight percent of children reported
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missing. A recent human trafficking report also states that black women make up forty
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percent of sex trafficking victims across the country. Amat says raising safety awareness in
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black communities is key. Being sure that when you're walking in public, you're
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not on your phone, you're not distracted, you're paying attention to your surroundings,
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You're doing your best to be in tune and being judges good judges of
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people's characters that you come across. Now, there's also a case we've been
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following of missing nineteen year old Martin Brown, a black woman with disabilities.
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Her family says she was last seeing June twenty ninth, at a bus station
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in Hagerstown, Maryland, with an older man. Police believe he may have
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taken her to San Francisco. Now, if you have any information about this
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case, you can reach out to Hagerstown or San Francisco police. Greg Yeah,
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Lamonica Peter's line in San Jose Force tonight, Lamonica, thank you.
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M. It's so sad. Did you see these black women are go missing
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and no one does anything about it? M those that know two years ago
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I lost my niece. My niece had been missing and h h Atlanta police
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did nothing about it. I even went to Atlanta to get her and a
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police will not help. So I just want to say this is personal,
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and that's why I sent imparative that I continue to revisit this conversation because sex
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trafkin is real, the kidnapping of black women is real, the killing of
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black women is real. So when I say there's little to no media coverage
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when black or brown people go missing, that's accurate because when my niece were
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missing, I sister went to the police and told the police, this is
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who you need to go look at, this is who you need to talk
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to, and they did nothing because they said she was grown. Not only
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did my niece not only was she on alive, but another young lady was
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on alivee too, by the same man that my sister so vicariously fought locust
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Grow police to go and investigate. Again, you can't say all lives matter
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until black lives matter. I don't know if my sister is watching tonight.
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I don't know where she is, but this is for content shut. You
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may not have saved her, but you could have said the other young lady.
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That's why it's imperative, very imperative that we protect that were black women.
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It's very imperative that you get news or media coverage out of back these
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black girls said were missing, because you could very well be saving someone's life,
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someone's daughter's life, someone's niece or sister or cousin. But they did
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nothing. They briefly spoke about her, but then her story was cut short
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to speak about a woman, a white woman and her dog who were killed.
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So That's why I say this. Carly Russell's story is very triggering to
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me. It's personal. It's deep, y'all keep saying. And I promised
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I was gonna wait until the end to even address Carl Russell. But let
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me let me go ahead and do it since I've already opened the wound.
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Anyway, the authorities absolutely ow us something because if this young lady, let
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me, let me let me before I even do all of that, let
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me just say, I'm very grateful that this young lady was found home,
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was found a safe I'm so sorry, and was home with her family.
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My sister was not so lucky, okay, And she warned the people Locus
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Grow police department. She warned y'all and told y'all you need to go find
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this man. You need to go to this man's house. And they did
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nothing. Y'all allowed this monster, this predator, to not unerlie with one
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black girl, but two. So absolutely I will see the authority. You
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owe us something. You need to know people that are in that area,
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is the perpetrator still out there, if there's a if there was a toddler
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that was allegedly seen walking again, it's the interstate is this baby, Okay,
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sex trafficking. The hubs are Houston, Atlanta, New Orleans. Anyone
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that lives in Atlanta, you know Birmingham is right there. You go straight
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up twenty The people of Birmingham, Hoover best in my area. They deserve
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to know if this perpetrator is still out here. These people deserve to know
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that. You deserve to get up here, and you deserve to alert these
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truck drivers that drive these interstates day in and day out what they need to
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be looking for. That could be very imperative to this young lady's case,
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because if you really cared about black women, you would drop some type of
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inflammation like that out to the public. I don't care if we get a
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statement from Quality right now, understand, but the auretis you away stand And
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for the people that I've read your comments where you say, oh, she
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doesn't, they don't always anything. Yes they do, because this could very
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well be your child, This could be your sister, this could be your
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mother, this could be your cousin. Something. Wouldn't you want to save
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another black or brown girl's life. You can't sit up here and tell when
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you care about black women and you don't want to give us the information to
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protect us. I'm pissed off. I'm pissed off because this right here,
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y'all are showing me every day that y'all don't care. Y'all don't care.
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Had the police have listened to when my sister went and told them this is
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the person you need to go and see about, you may not have saved
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my niece, but you might have saved this young lady. If Hoover Police,
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you owe that to the community to let them know. We understand you're
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coming through this. You're trying to make sure your eyes are gottter mts across.
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We get that. But there's a neighborhood that's close by to where Carly
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Russell disappeared. You need to have these people need to be on high alert.
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These people need to know what they're looking for. You owe that.
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You owe that to the people of Hoover. You owe than that. You
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owe that to the people of Birmingham. Anyone in that area sending alerts out
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to the truck drivers be on alert for this. If you see anything in
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that area, or if you hear somebody talk, you owe us that.
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Because Locus grow up Police Department, y'all can kiss my entire ass. Atlanta
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Police Department, you could kiss my entire ass too, because you could have
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helped us instead of listing her as a runaway. She was missing. You
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owe my sister that you owe the other black girls that go missing daily,
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you owe a stack. I don't even understand how people that know stuff.
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I don't even understand how you sleep at night. I'm over here shaking.
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I would give anything for my sister and the handful daughter back, because I
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have a daughter. My niece and my daughter were one year and one day
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apart. One year and one day. She was taken by a monster that
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y'all could have stopped. In Carl's situation, she was stopping. She was
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She's saved. She's at home with her family. You have other mothers,
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families that are out here begging and pleading for media courage for their lost loved
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one, and y'all do nothing. And that's very disheartened to me and to
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the rest of the parents in the world whose love is gonna missing and y'all
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don't care. I look at the young lady I want to say that was
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in Chicago. She was a man opposed to carriage. She was pregnant went
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missing. You heard about it for one or two days, and now you
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don't hear about it. And I want to say that happened some years ago.
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Y'all have an Amber alert. I think that am ebony alert needs to
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be worldwide. I get it they're doing it in California, but that needs
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to be worldwide. If you guys can put boohoo energy into what goes on
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in celebrity lives, y'all can put that same energy into what's going on in
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real life. Y'all need to open your eyes. Black women earn or attack.
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Do y'all not even see that? Do y'all not understand that us black
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women, we need to get locked and loaded around here because for some reason
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they hate us. I just read a story that they it happened in Atlanta
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between Clayton and Fayette County. A nineteen year old girl kidnapped from her job
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by her twenty year old boyfriend and she was killed and love Joint High School.
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When are y'all gonna wake up America? When are y'all gonna start doing
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something to these communities where y'all gonna come together and do something? If y'all
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could share foolishness on your timeline. Let us know what goes on in your
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city so we can repost it. Let us know. That's the only way
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we're gonna get any type of coverage. Utilize your platform for the good.
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There's a thirteen year old that's missing out of Detroit, Michigan. Her name
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is Mackenzie Davis missing. No media coverage on the way. I saw that
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was on TikTok. I haven't heard about it on a news station. I
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haven't seen anyone share it anywhere other than on TikTok. Where was the empathy?
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Where is the empathy? What if this was your love one that went
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missing? That when you want someone to put that out there to help bring
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your love one home. But I remember when Gabby Potito went missing and I
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saw that circulated all over the place. That's all I saw. But you
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have little black girls that go missing right in your community and you don't even
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share. You don't even share. Nat says she gets a notification that there
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is a black thirteen year old girl every other day in Metro Atlanta. She
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says, shaking my damn head. Keisha says, you as well. So
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far, so good, and I believe y'all are important just as much as
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I am. It's crazy how this country is messed up and don't care about
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y'all. I wish I could change it, since I really do. I
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just want to make it better. I just want to make it better.
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She say, yes, it is this very sad, and my Sosa says,
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I am. Keisha says, and you have a right to up assist.
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Nat says he kidnapped her the same day, a year prior. And
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that's what I mean. Nothing happens. Have another story. I hope I
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pulled it up Minnesota. So what Minnesota is doing, Uh, Minnesota is
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open. They're actually going back and they're opening these cases of the missing black
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girls to investigate. So let me play this and then I want to jump
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back into the conversation tonight, because again, I really want to make sure
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that this is share I really want to make sure that this is not a
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conversation that's left and swept up under the road, because it's imperative that we
35:31
continue to keep these types of conversations going. So here we go, this
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is Minnesota, and then I want to get back into the conversation. It's
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forty five days now, long days Erica Embree and Charles Lewis Senior have been
35:50
anxiously searching for their daughter who's been missing since April. Danielle. She's fifteen
35:54
years old. She's very smart, and she's not returning any calls any Texas
36:01
or anything. And that's what made it real scary. From Minnesota family,
36:06
Joyce and Peter Hayden, a different nightmare involving their daughter Taylor when she was
36:12
taken from us was twenty bad. She went on a girl's trip to Atlanta
36:15
and she was grabbed and used as a human shield. There were two bullets
36:22
fired, she was killed. Her killer has never been found. Now,
36:27
Minnesota has passed a bill to create an Office for Missing and Murdered Black Women
36:30
and Girls, the first of its kind in the nation. The office will
36:34
investigate cold cases and reopen suspicious cases that were never solved. Representative Ruth Richardson
36:39
sponsored the bill. Minnesota this year has the largest contingent of legislators of color
36:51
that it's ever had. We all had a story that we could relate to
36:57
families that are in this crisis, and I think it's just a real recognition
37:02
of how important representation is in Minnesota. Black women make up only seven percent
37:07
of the population, but a state task force found that they represent forty percent
37:12
of domestic abuse victims and are nearly three times as likely to be murdered compared
37:15
to white women. When we find out that a black girl or woman is
37:22
missing, many people talk it up to where they must have been doing something
37:28
devious. There's a crisis in our nation around missing and murdered Black women and
37:34
girls. Swanna Kirkland is the vice chair of the National Black Police Association and
37:38
testified in favor of the office. What current gaps in law enforcement will miss
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office address. It will establish best practices. It will also create that bridge
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between families and law enforcement and communities around solving of these cases. But Embrey
38:00
says that collaboration needs a lot of improvement. She told us that she and
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several of the impacted families in Minnesota also experience their concerns being brushed off or
38:10
ignored by officers. I just want him to bring my baby home, anybody
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to bring a home. Taylor's obviously God, and we can't bring her back.
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That We are really hopeful that because of Thise, things like this will
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be greatly reduced. So the Office is slated to open in August, and
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Richardson says she hopes it will become a blueprint for the rest of the nation.
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As for Eric and Charles, they say they will continue to push for
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answers in the search for their daughter Danielle until she's found. Thanks for watching
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our YouTube channel. Follow today's top stories and breaking news by downloading the NBC
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News app. These are absolutely some of the things that we need to go
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down and we need to vote for. People keep asking what can I do?
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What can I do to help you? Go down there and you vote.
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What they're doing in Minnesota needs to happen across all the fifty states.
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You'll need to go down the town hall. I'm sorry, city hall.
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My apologies. You need to go to city hall. You need to vote
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to have this type of office opened in your state because you heard what they
39:40
said. I gave you statistics forty percent Black people make up nearly forty percent
39:54
of all missing persons cases. That My daughter has been missing since April of
40:00
twenty twenty three, and we're in July. My niece were missing February twenty
40:13
twenty one. Her body was found July twenty twenty one. I had to
40:35
breathe through. I gotta breathe through because I have two daughters, and I
40:52
would absolutely want someone to do this for me. I would absolutely want someone
41:02
to help me fine any one of my children, if able to ever go
41:06
missing. That's why it was imperative for me to do this episode tonight.
41:19
I remember when I first addressed when my niece went missing. I remember that
41:24
very first time a lady reached out to me here in Houston whose daughter was
41:30
missing, and she had no one to turn to me. And she says,
41:37
she just stumbled across my video and she tuned in and she said,
41:44
my daughter is missing. She said, I've been back and forth to HPD.
41:49
She said, I called the hospitals every day. She said, I
41:52
call the jails every day. Nothing. She went and filed a rapport down
41:59
at them Houston Police Department, and all they took us a report. They
42:04
never followed back up with her, and she said, I don't know where
42:15
to go. I don't know where to turn to. I've asked everyone to
42:19
help me, and they just keep telling me because she's over the age of
42:22
eighteen, there's nothing they could do. And she said the first question that
42:28
they asked her was had her and the daughter had an altercation? And she
42:37
said, my heart dropped to the bottom of my stomach. And I said,
42:44
what did you say? She said, I couldn't say anything, she
42:51
said, because that was the first question they came out of her mouth,
42:52
not how does her daughter look? But had her and the daughter had an
42:57
altercation that would cause the or to leave pretty much is what they asked her.
43:02
And she said no, and she showed him a picture. She said.
43:07
They took her information and they would put flyers out. They would post
43:12
it on the Houston Police Department website. She said, you know it would
43:15
take what did she say? I think? She said it would take up
43:17
to seventy two hours because they have to send it over to the people that
43:21
handled the social media accounts for the Houston Police Department. So she said okay,
43:29
and they gave her a case number, and she said she checked back
43:32
the following week, no post. She was back to calling in the hospitals,
43:40
back to calling in the jail. She said, every day, you
43:42
know, she said, people would see her daughter, but they could never
43:45
say where they saw her act. And she said every day, she said,
43:50
I would go to these look any spot I could think of where prostitutes
43:53
hang out, hoping to see my child to dad never did. So she
44:00
reached out to me because I told her, you know, I was going
44:01
the same thing. She said, well, how did everything the outcome which
44:05
your needs to say, Well, the guy was finding committed. He's now
44:07
serving two years two life sentences in prison. I say, because he on
44:10
alive, not only my niece, but another young lady. She said too.
44:14
I say, yes, ma'am, I do want to update him that
44:19
you know her daughter has been found safe. This was right before Christmas,
44:22
I want to say. She contacted me and told me one of her co
44:27
workers saw her daughter walking down Bisonette. Anyone that lives in Houston or is
44:34
familiar with Bisonette and fifty nine, y'all know that as a high prostitute area
44:37
here in Houston, one of the high prostituting areas here in Houston. So
44:44
she said, the co worker pulled over and solicited the daughter as if you
44:47
know, he was trying to solicit to her, and he drove the daughter
44:52
to home, and her daughter has been home ever since. But she says,
45:04
law enforcement, I have no faith. And I asked her to explain
45:09
me why she said, because instead of asking me, how did my daughter
45:16
look? What was she last wearing, they immediately asked me. Had her
45:20
and the daughter had an altercation prior to the daughter leaving or disappearing? She
45:27
said, they refused to help. She said, they lied to me,
45:30
told me they was going to post things about her on their social media site.
45:34
They never did, she said, so I have zero faith. She
45:39
said. I'm so sorry that your situation didn't pan out the way you wanted
45:44
it to turn out, she said, but something needs to be done.
45:51
I did reach out to her tonight to invite her onto the show, and
45:52
she said no, and I understand why. I definitely understand why. But
46:02
since she did say to you she loves you, she will forever pray for
46:07
you, and she says although Dennis Lane being in prison will never bring you
46:16
closure, but she prays for peace. I say all of that to say,
46:40
we as a community have to do what the police want do. We
46:46
have to start being becoming our own resources. That's what we have to start
46:52
doing, because when black and brown people go missing, law enforcement doesn't care.
47:00
I think the only reason Carlin Russell's story got so much coverage is because
47:07
she called the police. I believe that's why had she not have, we
47:17
would never know who Carl THEA Russell is that Amber alert. We definitely need
47:30
that that Ebbene alert worldwide, even if we as a people start sharing this
47:37
on your timeline so people can start reposting. I've seen little black girls and
47:44
brown girls that go missing that have been found eight nine ten cents away from
47:49
they even from where they even disappeared. We have to do our own police,
47:55
and we have to start protecting our own black and brown girls because they
48:01
show us consistently that they don't give a damn about us. They show us
48:07
this daily, but y'all don't seem to care until it's knocking at your door.
48:19
I remember when my niece went missing. I remember and I begged y'all
48:24
share her picture. I beg I posted it to people that I knew that
48:28
lifting at lant share help us bring her home. My sister's looking for.
48:34
Atlanta Police Department won't help, the cab County won't help. Nobody and only
48:40
two people share. But the moment I let y'all know that my niece had
48:45
passed away, y'all were all in my inbox talking about oh my god Ashally,
48:49
I'm so sorry for your loss. We're sad. Our thoughts, our
48:52
thoughts and prayers are with you. Tell your sister we're praying for her.
48:55
But I asked y'all to help us, and only two people share. Why
49:15
if this was your child, I'm anna repost and I'm gonna help you whatever
49:21
I gotta do, whatever resources I have access to. I'm not gonna keep
49:27
any information. I'm gonna share. I'm gonna help you bring your child on
49:30
because I'm a mother. Even if I wasn't a mother, you know I
49:34
have loved ones, I would do it for you. So I really think
49:43
y'all really need to start doing this. We have to become the community.
49:45
We have to become our own neighborhood watch, even if we live several states
49:51
away. It takes five seconds for you to repost. If you you can
50:00
repost what Glorilla and Little boosting Them got going on in a personal life.
50:07
Five seconds all it takes us for you to share, and then that share
50:13
could get another share, That share could get another share. That share can
50:17
reach as far as California, that share can reach as far as Canada.
50:24
We have to start protecting our own law enforcement ain't doing it, Hey,
50:32
big brother, what's something not a p Now that he say, yes,
50:37
we do, he says they only they don't, only their kind. Jeule
50:47
says, that's why I continually share when I see missing posts, and I
50:52
do the same. Now that peace say, wow, we have to do
51:00
better as a people. And that's what I mean what I say. One
51:04
share could turn into five shares, that five shares could turn into twenty shares,
51:08
that twenty shares could turn into a hundred. You could potentially be saving
51:13
a child's life. Someone may have seen this child or this person and could
51:20
provide a license plate number. Hey wait, this lady's missing and I saw
51:25
her being put into a car. This is the license plate number. Anything.
51:36
I look at my sister whenever I talk to her, and I look
51:39
at how strong and resilience she's been these last three years, and I pray
51:53
over her heart every day. When she sent me the story about Carla Russell,
52:00
I immediately called her, how are you feeling? Since you're okay,
52:05
you're good. I know this is personal, but are you good? Mentally?
52:09
Are you good? And she said yeah, but it automatically took her
52:16
back to February thirteen, twenty twenty one, the very last time she saw
52:24
my niece alive, and we both prayed for the safe return of Carla Russell.
52:31
We both pray and I still pray for her. I still call her
52:53
since how you feeling? I love you every day. I tell her every
53:06
day because I know she has those days. I know she fights, because
53:21
she has four other children she's got to stand tall for. So I pray.
53:28
I pray that this doesn't happen to another family. I pray daily.
53:40
You don't understand how does Carl Russell's story hits home? And y' also don't
53:51
understand why people are questioning this Carl Russell's story. So many un answered questions,
54:08
so many mixed emotions, mixed feelings, mixed views, that it is
54:17
really dividing us. And I say black and brown as people when we're really
54:23
in this point in time, we really need to be coming together because,
54:27
like I say, black women are uther attack. This is the time,
54:32
y'all, we need to beginning in like Beyonce say, we need to beginning
54:36
into formation because not only are they killing our black men, but they're killing
54:40
our black women too. They're pushing black and brown women into sex traffic and
54:46
I remember hearing Houston, well, I'm so sorry. In Texas the month
54:51
of March thirty, black and brown girls went missing in the month of March
54:58
thirty. It's only early one days, so that means that was one black
55:06
or brown girl going missing every day. No media coverage zero or if there
55:21
is, their stories are cut off by something that has no relevance to what's
55:30
going on in today's world. I may be about to piss some people off
55:37
of what I'm about to say, but I don't care the way y'all went
55:40
hard for those people that got in that submarine trying to go look at the
55:45
Titanic. Y'all were posting bookoo about that. Y'all are on high alert,
55:51
but you got black girls and brown girls. They're going missing every day and
55:53
you never fucking post the boy I'm pissed off if you could take the time
56:00
to post about billionaires that went down there gonna look at the Titanic, post
56:06
about something that makes that maps, because how did that affect your community.
56:15
I know y'all about to be pissed off at me, but it's better to
56:17
be pissed off than to be pissed off y'all said nothing. Y'all post nothing,
56:32
y'all post about that Tighten or whatever it was called everything, But I
56:38
really wish black people would keep that same energy for other black people the way
56:42
y'all invested in that damn Tighten. Investing in black and brown people that go
56:45
missing in your community. Put that energy where it's where it's worth something.
56:52
I'm not trying to sound coldhearted or like I'm not empathetic. I'm so sorry
56:57
those people lost their lives going down at the at the Titanic, But I'm
57:02
more concerned about the countless black and brown birds. They go missing every day
57:06
and are never found, and nothing is ever said. We still don't even
57:10
know what happened to Knika Jenkins. Here. We are a year later,
57:17
and we still don't know what happened to Julyani Day Here. It is what
57:24
six seven years now, and we still don't know how Kendrick Johnson died.
57:36
I'm upset, I'm hurt. I'm devastating that things like this are really true
57:44
going on in the world, and y'all don't seem to care. Y'all would
57:49
rather post about Cardi b in all sets relationship, or y'all rather post about
57:54
future still going for Sierra and Russell into talk about what's going on in your
58:02
community. You can't ask for the help and then get mad when they don't
58:12
give it to you. You can't ask for what you don't want. Y'all
58:22
say you want black women protected. Let's start with this because Carlin Russell case.
58:31
Let's start with this case right here that's worldwide. Now, let's talk
58:38
about all the media covers this young lady guy. Let's talk about all the
58:45
money that was donated but has now been taken back. Let's talk about that.
59:00
I've seen people say, oh, the family, they don't owe it's
59:02
an explanation, but the authorities do. How can you say protect black women
59:08
but you don't want them to. You don't want the authorities to get on
59:13
TV and say, hey, this is who you need to look for.
59:16
The purpose still out there. What if this happens to another black lady in
59:23
that same area. What if the purpose has moved out of the area.
59:28
What if he's now in at Land. What if he's in Tennessee. What
59:32
if he's in Louisiana if the what if this person has made it to California?
59:37
What if this person has made into Texas. What if he's in Kentucky.
59:42
You don't want to know. Are y'all even concerned if there was even
59:50
really a child that was walking down the interstate? No one has even asked
59:52
has the child been found? None of y'all, None of y'all. Y'all
1:00:10
don't want to be protected. Y'all. Let me say this, y'all only
1:00:15
want to be protected when if it's a narrative. Because as soon as this
1:00:20
dies back down, as soon as this, as soon as whatever truth comes
1:00:24
to light after the investigation, y'all are gonna y'all aren't gonna even be talking
1:00:29
about this. Y'all only jump on ship when it's cool to talk about.
1:00:36
But this is imperative, this Carlie Russell situation. We have a lot of
1:00:43
questions that need answers, so Malcolm says, and this is the same reason
1:00:52
why our communities are being gentrified, because we don't care. People are only
1:00:57
concerned about their own and no one else. Jule says, exactly, We
1:01:02
need answers to these questions for real, for real, absolutely, because my
1:01:07
question, where's the toddler? Has anyone found this baby? So we're rolling
1:01:15
into these carl Russell updates. So again, y'all welcome. Let me let
1:01:22
me start over. Y'all, welcome to another episode of Black Girl Interrupted.
1:01:25
Y'all know it's your girl Ash and tonight I'm talking Black Girl Gone. I'm
1:01:30
talking about the black and brown girls that go missing daily and get little to
1:01:35
zero media coverage. Why is that? Why is that? But I keep
1:01:44
seeing the white tears that all all lives matter, But how can they if
1:01:51
black lives don't. I gave y'all statistics. Let me run it back for
1:01:59
y'all. Black people were significantly underrepresented in the population of missing persons who received
1:02:07
coverage, even though missing people of color make up nearly forty percent of all
1:02:14
missing person cases. And you heard it for yourself. They took forty percent
1:02:21
Black and brown women. We go missing Black people forty percent and we only
1:02:25
make up thirteen percent of the population, while you have white women who were
1:02:36
overrepresented in news coverage, accounting for more than half of the missing person coverage
1:02:42
missing persons coverage when they make up thirty percent of missing person cases and their
1:02:50
population is bigger than ours. African Americans only make up thirteen percent of the
1:02:54
population, only thirteen percent, but forty percent of the cases are black people
1:03:00
missing, and white women only make up thirty percent, and they're always overrepresented
1:03:12
in news coverage. But y'all want to tussle. I told y'all, I
1:03:22
pulls up receipts, but to these Carly Russell updates, the math ain't manthing.
1:03:37
And I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm very grateful this young lady
1:03:43
has been found safe and she's home with her family and her loved ones,
1:03:46
her loved ones and family. There are a lot of things that just aren't
1:03:53
adding up to me. And yes, you can say, oh, she's
1:03:58
victims shaming, and this is why black women don't that that whatever. If
1:04:08
you want to be protected black women, you gotta want some facts, you
1:04:15
gotta want something. Are we all still waiting for everything to be revealed?
1:04:21
Absolutely absolutely we are. But we also have questions as well, and that's
1:04:31
everyone. Everyone is entitled to have questions about situations. Stop arguing with people
1:04:38
in the comments and trying to tell oh, you shouldn't say that. Why.
1:04:44
That's what obsessed me with y'all because y'all get so upset when people y'all
1:04:47
post stuffing and get people and get upset when people post their opinions. If
1:04:51
you don't want the opinions, don't post a comment. If you don't want
1:05:00
push back on anything you post, then don't post it. Because if it's
1:05:05
something that is in reference and I want to put my two cents, I'm
1:05:09
gonna drop my two cents and I'm gonna keep it moving. But if it
1:05:15
don't apply, let it fly. Y'all get upset when you post these comments,
1:05:19
and then when people come in and comment, you want to tussle with
1:05:21
people in the comments. Stop posting it. Then y'all keep saying we have
1:05:29
to respect our privacy. We're giving her that. But the Hoover police deserved
1:05:34
to get on national TV and say, either the purp it's still a large
1:05:44
the child, this toddler that was allegedly walking down the interstate in a white
1:05:47
T shirt and a diaper, we deserve to know this if she was,
1:05:58
if she was abductive. Were there other women wherever these these abductors took you?
1:06:08
What do we need to be on hiler looking for? You have truck
1:06:11
drivers again that drive up and down the interstate all hours of the day and
1:06:14
night. Let these truck drivers know this is what you need to be looking
1:06:18
for. Let the people that it's a neighborhood right close by where she went
1:06:26
missing. Let the people in the neighborhood know something there. If I'm not
1:06:33
mistaken, I believe there's a shopping strip or like there's like a shopping plast
1:06:39
that maybe I believe up that way in that area. What do they need
1:06:45
to be looking for? What has Carley told you so far that could potentially
1:06:54
help somebody else? Give us that. We can speak Mcarley at a later
1:07:02
thing. Absolutely, but as the authorities, you deserve to give us that
1:07:11
is this perk target specifically targeting black women. If so, let us know
1:07:16
that we're old that. But you you people can't have it both ways,
1:07:23
y'all ow y'all are victim blaming and and they don't owe us anything, Yes,
1:07:29
they do when black women are under attack, when black and brown women
1:07:33
are being sex traffic, we need to know this so as to prevent this
1:07:41
from happening to another black girl. How can y'all see they don't owe us
1:07:49
anything, But y'all are quick to get on here and say we deserve reparations.
1:07:58
The fuck out of Hill. You keep saying you want to be protected
1:08:08
but then you say they don't alwa us anything? Which which way to y'all
1:08:11
want it? Do you want to be a protected or through you not?
1:08:18
I need the math to math to me because I'm really, truly, I'm
1:08:21
honestly not understanding. Do you black women want to be protected? Y'all keep
1:08:29
saying and post we're under protected? Were the most disrespected where this were that?
1:08:33
I want to be protected. I want my black I want my other
1:08:38
black women and brown women to be protected. I want the black community,
1:08:42
the black and brown communy, I want us to all be protected. But
1:08:47
if you're not telling me what I need to do to protect myself, how
1:08:54
are you protecting me? Y'all? Can at least let us know that?
1:09:01
So I pulled some updates and then we're gonna get back into the conversation.
1:09:05
I pulled some videos with regard toss of updates of what's going on. This
1:09:12
is actually from a former FBI agent, Stewart Kaplin, who has dropped his
1:09:17
two cents in on the Carl Russell's story. I'm gonna go ahead and rule,
1:09:24
and then I want to jump back into that because I want to know
1:09:25
what you guys think. How do you feel what are your thoughts on what
1:09:28
he has to see? And a lot to unpack in this story. So
1:09:32
let's welcome now former FBI special agent story Kaplin start. Thank you so much
1:09:36
for being here. Let's dive right in. Please say, this is an
1:09:40
ongoing investigation. What are they doing right now to either validate or invalidate her
1:09:46
story? Well, I think certainly if you look at the physical evidence,
1:09:50
then I would start, obviously with the video evidence of the camera that picked
1:09:57
up the car along the interstate. Certainly the camera or the video does not
1:10:02
in any way a show a toddler a near or in any proximity to where
1:10:11
she ultimately stopped. In fact, if you watched the video, she actually
1:10:15
goes down the highway for a good distance before she finally comes to a stop.
1:10:20
The first thing is an investigator, I think anybody could appreciate that if
1:10:24
you saw a toddler in the middle of the night out there on an interstate,
1:10:28
you would stop your car instantly and get out frantically and try to protect
1:10:33
that child. The behavior of seeing the car continue down the highway number one,
1:10:39
is inconsistent with the belief that in fact there was a child along the
1:10:45
road. Also, I think you would understand and appreciate and anticipate that other
1:10:49
motorists would have made the same observations and would have called nine on one or
1:10:55
would have stopped their vehicles obviously to render aid to this child in obviously great
1:11:00
danger. So those are the obvious direct evidence that I would have a problem
1:11:05
with. I see this case unfortunately, morres she may have been involved with
1:11:13
someone else and maybe in order to have an alibi for where she was,
1:11:18
I think we may see this case un rabble in the days to come.
1:11:24
So start how to investigators go about tracking her account putting some of these pieces
1:11:30
together. Well, the first thing is the cell phone was left on the
1:11:34
side of the road, and so of course it is my understanding that the
1:11:41
phone will not offer any information with respect to after she apparently allegedly was abducted.
1:11:49
However, the phone will be of importance to backtrack and see who she
1:11:57
was talking to, who she was texting, and most importantly, in fact,
1:12:01
we saw the advancement of this technology, the location service services that are
1:12:09
indicative now in all cell phone cell phones, where it can pinpoint with direct
1:12:15
accuracy as to where she was at any particular time. They'll be able to
1:12:18
go back and see or whether or not, in fact there's some validity to
1:12:24
where she was coming from. I think they're going to look at that cell
1:12:28
phone information, and then of course they're going to attempt to interview her and
1:12:33
see whether or not the story that was alleged does it in fact pair up
1:12:40
with the physical evidence. But again that's to be seen. And again,
1:12:45
the other obvious thing when we talk about direct evidence is that if someone was
1:12:49
abducted, as soon as you would break free from your captive, you would
1:12:55
not walk home. You would immediately go to the first person, or the
1:12:58
first house, or the first someone, and obviously get someone to call nine
1:13:03
one one and render assistance to you. This idea that you walked home is
1:13:09
inconceivable, it's not believable, and it's not consistent with logic, and so
1:13:15
that in and of itself is going to be a problem for her. A
1:13:17
lot of gaps in the story, a lot law enforcement didn't say, will
1:13:21
await those details story Kaplan. Thank you for the breakdown, Thank you for
1:13:25
watching. Go to newstation now dot com to find newsation on your television provider,
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of newstations fact driven, unbiased coverage. All right, so after watching that
1:13:42
video, what are your thoughts? How do you feel about this? Does
1:13:48
that change a way of thinking? Do you still feel like she was adopted?
1:13:56
Do you feel like this was a hoax. I'm gonna be honest with
1:14:00
you, and I'm gonna tell you physical evidence does not lie. And let
1:14:17
me just take a deep breath. Physical evidence does not lie. I absolutely
1:14:30
agree that if there was actually truly a toddler that was walking down the interstate,
1:14:42
you would have immediately stopped. I will see that. Y'all keep saying
1:14:54
we're victims shaming. This is why black women. This, this is why
1:15:00
black women that am I readily opinion this is the furthest from the truth because
1:15:06
now there's more questions than answers because and this is my opinion because as a
1:15:18
woman and I'm driving alone down a dark interstate, I just really do not
1:15:32
see myself getting out of the car, especially if I atherid notified the authorities.
1:15:41
I'm gonna wait on the authorities to get there. Am I gonna patiently
1:15:49
wait as the investigation continues. Absolutely, and I hope and pray that this
1:15:57
is not a hoax, because it's already hard enough for black women that go
1:16:05
missing to get media coverage. I really feel like that if this is an
1:16:11
untrue, this is gonna really true, us truly set us back even more.
1:16:17
And again that's just my opinion. I absolutely want black women protected at
1:16:29
all costs. I absolutely do. We all we got, but this is
1:16:36
not the way for us to go about doing it. Malcolm says, they're
1:16:46
not gonna do a thing. Jewel says, it's so much to unpack here.
1:16:51
But like I told you earlier today, I'm gonna wait on the police
1:16:54
to finish their investigation. I'm gonna wait. Does anyone know anyone that's that's
1:17:01
watching. Um. I didn't find anything, whether parents made a comment or
1:17:08
made a statement. I do see where this alleged boyfriend has come out,
1:17:14
but no one has even validated. I'm so sorry that's the word verified that
1:17:21
this was truly the boyfriend. I no one has come out to verify say
1:17:27
yeah or nay if this is the boyfriend. Uh. Maybe they're waiting.
1:17:30
I don't know, but I do hope and I do pray that this is
1:17:39
not a hoax. While I'm sitting up here, trying to put all the
1:17:45
pieces together to make it make sense. To me. That's all that matters
1:17:49
is that I'm just trying to make it make sense to me. I'm not
1:17:53
trying to convince you to think anyway, because you're inside of the feeling.
1:17:56
Think the way you want to think. But to me, it just doesn't
1:17:59
make sense. If the call disconnected when you were on the phone with law
1:18:08
enforcement, why didn't you call back? That's just my question. Where is
1:18:16
this toddler that was seen allegedly walking down the interstate? For those that may
1:18:25
or may not have seen the video, I only see her get out of
1:18:29
the car and walk around to the passenger side. I don't see anyone come
1:18:35
and snatch her. I don't see another vehicle. I don't see another person.
1:18:41
And I've watched it too many times account I've zoomed and I've done everything.
1:18:45
I've even watched multiple enhanced videos of this. But at least let us
1:18:59
know what we need to be on how you alert for. Let us know.
1:19:08
Malcolm says, I pray that she didn't make a fake story. I
1:19:11
do too. I absolutely do too, because again, I really, really,
1:19:24
my heart really and I want to say maybe it's because I've lost a
1:19:29
loved one. That's the part of me that really wants to believe that this
1:19:34
young lady is telling the truth. That's the part of me that I'm thinking
1:19:38
with. But then there's this other part of me that's like, I don't
1:19:44
know, but I think maybe if you just give us something, Hey,
1:19:55
the purpose still out there, something we could be on high alert. The
1:20:03
people in that city could be on high alert. The people across the world
1:20:08
cup be on high alert. We deserve that. If you want to be
1:20:19
protected, you gotta want the protection. You gotta push him and say,
1:20:28
hey, come on now, you gotta let us know it's this perp still
1:20:30
out here. And again, maybe I'm speaking from a personal stance because again
1:20:43
I've experienced this, the abduction and the body being recovered. Maybe that's the
1:20:56
part I'm thinking with. I want to save one life. But then again
1:21:02
it's still that are you sure this is not adding up over here? Maybe
1:21:19
I need to take my emotions out of I don't know. Maybe that's I
1:21:27
don't know, But the biggest part of me is is the the empathetic part
1:21:35
is the part that I pray that this opens the door. But other black
1:21:45
women are brown women that go missing, that we get the same coverage.
1:21:53
I think that's the biggest part that I'm I think that's that's let me not
1:21:56
even say I think I know that's the biggest thing is that this opens the
1:22:03
door, that this makes a way for black and brown women to start getting
1:22:10
media coverage when they go missing. I hope this opens your eyes and I
1:22:15
hope this is this encourages and pushes you to get down to these poles at
1:22:23
a local level to vote to do exactly what Minnesota is doing, to push
1:22:27
and advocate for these states to reopen these cases of black and brown people that
1:22:33
have gone missing. If we take anything away from this Carlin Russell's story,
1:22:42
I pray that you utilize this and let that be the catapult for them to
1:22:46
reopen these missing person cases of black and brown women and black and brown men.
1:22:57
I pray that this becomes the catalyst for that. That's really what I
1:23:02
hope for, is that black and brown people can start getting more media coverage,
1:23:13
that more resources will be put forward to help in these missing person cases.
1:23:20
That's what I hope for. That's what I pray for. I'm gonna
1:23:30
show you why I hope for this Sinscy. If you're still watching, I
1:23:35
love you. If this is triggering, I advise you to just sign off
1:23:43
for a few moments. But this is why I pray that the Carli Russell
1:23:49
story becomes the catalyst to open up some of these missing cases. He's missing
1:24:00
person cases. Here we go more questions for a Henry County mother. Her
1:24:06
daughter, Contitian McCoy, went missing and her body found last week near another
1:24:11
woman's remains. Just hours ago, she told our John Scherick that she told
1:24:15
police who might have taken her daughter, the same man now suspected of killing
1:24:18
the first woman. She is drained numb. I know at this point,
1:24:25
I'm tired of crying. I am. Last night, I cried myself to
1:24:29
sleep. Koco McCoy in her Locust Grove home, along with her husband Antonio,
1:24:33
just found out what they had feared all along. Police confirmed that the
1:24:38
remains found in these woods in Henry County were those of her missing nineteen year
1:24:43
old daughter, Contitia McCoy. Contitia's remains found next to the remains of twenty
1:24:47
three year old Murcia Victor. Victor was murdered earlier this month. Police say
1:24:53
by a forty one year old man named Dennis Lane, a convicted sex offender
1:24:58
who lives nearby these woods. Coco McCoy says Lane is the same man who
1:25:02
had been stalking her daughter, Kantitia, claiming he wanted to marry her just
1:25:08
before she disappeared this past February, but in the past five months leading up
1:25:13
to Murcia Victor's death, Locus Grove police, she says, never pursued the
1:25:16
lead she gave them that Lane might be responsible for her daughter's disappearance, and
1:25:23
I hated for the the family they had to endure that. You know,
1:25:30
I just could have been avoided if you would have just went to his house,
1:25:33
like we kept telling you to do. If you just would have went,
1:25:38
you couldn't say my daughter, but you could have said somebody else.
1:25:41
Have We will work to reach Locus Grove Police for comment. Kantitia, she
1:25:45
says, was funny, always sending her videos to make her laugh, took
1:25:49
good care of her younger siblings. Now she knows she is gone, but
1:25:56
can't believe it. I just thought she was going to walk through that door,
1:25:59
and I've seen my baby again. For new information and updates in this
1:26:03
case, look for this story on eleven alive dot com. That is why
1:26:19
I see, you gotta give us something. They're right there just showed you.
1:26:38
We have to protect our black and brown girls. We have to do
1:26:42
it. Law enforcement did nothing nothing. This is why I see it takes
1:27:10
five ten seconds to share. We have to get out to these polls.
1:27:21
We have to take our communities back. We have to start showing our black
1:27:31
and brown girls how to protect themselves. We have to protect our black and
1:27:41
brown girls so another situation doesn't occur. Devastating, it's heartbreaking, it's scary.
1:28:18
It's sickness that y'all don't care. Law enforcement doesn't care, especially when
1:28:38
you're provided the information and you fail to act on it when you could have
1:28:46
done something about it. So that's why I push and I advocate that this
1:28:55
carlt Russell's story is not a hoax. I pray that this will be the
1:29:04
catalyst to open other doors and avenues for little black girls and brown girls,
1:29:12
and black women and brown women, and black men and black boys, brown
1:29:17
men, brown boys, to get the media coverage we so deserve. Because
1:29:28
until black lives matter, all lives doom. Maybe I think I said that
1:29:32
backwards. I think I said that backwards. I did all lives can let
1:29:40
me let me let me re say that all lives can't matter until Black lives
1:29:44
matter. So it's imparative for us as a people, as a community.
1:29:51
You gotta step in some of y'all. These days you live by, live
1:29:57
by cold, and y'all see something and don't say anything, and you could
1:30:05
potentially be saving somebody's life. But y'all live about it is cold that if
1:30:16
it ain't my business, I'm not getting it, if it don't pertain to
1:30:18
me, until this situation is at your door, and then you're begging for
1:30:26
the community. You're begging and you're pleading for the community to help you keep
1:30:38
that same energy that you have when other black girls and and brown girls go
1:30:44
missing. Stand on that. I'll never give up for fighting for the black
1:31:00
and brown community. I'll never stop. The only way I'll stop is when
1:31:05
Jesus Jerome Jackson takes the air out of my body. That's the only way
1:31:09
I'll stop. I'll continue advocating for the people that look like me. I'll
1:31:18
continue to post about the people that look like me again, because I'm pro
1:31:29
black doesn't mean a man anti white again. I pray that this story is
1:31:39
not a hoax. I'm gonna sit back and I'm gonna patiently wait as they
1:31:47
calm through all the details. I'm gonna wait, but this situation has absolutely
1:32:00
left me with more questions than answers. This is not victim blaming. This
1:32:13
is about what's right and what's wrong. This is not a shot at black
1:32:23
women, because hell, I'm a black woman. This is not to discredit
1:32:32
black women. So before y'all jump on your soap box and say, oh,
1:32:38
she's dog and black women, no I'm not. I'm just giving your
1:32:45
mind humble opinion and how I'm looking at and I'm looking at it from both
1:32:50
sides of the coin. That's the way I'm viewing it. But I still
1:33:02
stand on when I say we have to protect our black and brown girls.
1:33:09
The murdering and kidnapping and sex trafficking of our black and brown girls is so
1:33:15
surreal. I don't even remember the world being like this ten years ago.
1:33:24
I'm not saying kidnapping never existed. But again, Carlin Russell, please allow
1:33:38
your story to be the catalyst that opens the door for other black and brown
1:33:43
people that go missing. The way y'all invested time and money to find that
1:33:53
sub that titan that went to look at the Titanic. Please provide that to
1:33:56
the black and brown girls that go missing. Please go down to your local
1:34:03
representatives, your city, or your state representatives and push for them to reopen
1:34:11
some of these missing cases that have yet to be ones that have yet to
1:34:15
be solved, that remain unsolved. I'm so sorry. That's what I pray
1:34:23
for. I dedicate this episode to my niece, Kantitia McCoy. I will
1:34:34
forever speak for you, baby girl. I promise you, I'll never ever
1:34:41
allow you to be forgotten. I'll never allow your story to be forgotten.
1:34:49
Whoever I had to get in front of. That's why I'm gonna do to
1:34:55
make sure your story is still heard, to make sure that you're not forgotten,
1:35:02
to let you know that your life was not taken in vain. To
1:35:09
my soul start, I love you, and we're gonna do whatever we gotta
1:35:15
do to keep her name alive. You had nineteen beautiful years with her.
1:35:25
I guess those are my final thoughts, y'all. I'm so late. I
1:35:28
guess those are my final thoughts. But you did. You had nineteen beautiful
1:35:34
years with her. I still pray for continuous peace over your heart. I
1:35:47
do. I ask each and every person that if a person goes missing,
1:35:57
please share it on your timeline so it could be shared so we could bring
1:36:03
another loved one to home, another person's loved one home. I salute each
1:36:09
and every person that shared Carli Roussell story. I salute y'all, But please
1:36:15
keep that up. Please don't let this be a one time thing and you
1:36:18
don't do it again. But if you see another post come about a black
1:36:25
and brown person, share it, share it. Let's get active in our
1:36:33
communities. Let's start protecting our black and brown people. That's all I ask.
1:36:46
We gotta be a part of the change that we want to see.
1:36:54
You can't ask for something and you don't proticip and you don't follow through behind
1:36:59
it. I wish every little black and brown person or black and brown man,
1:37:06
woman, boy, girl, that goes missing. I pray that they're
1:37:10
all found safe. Even if they're not, I pray you bring closure to
1:37:15
the family. I pray for that. I definitely pray for that. Again,
1:37:30
I'm very grateful that car Carly Theo Russellless home with her family safe.
1:37:35
But again, I still have more questions than I do answers, and you
1:37:41
can't knock me for my opinions and how I think because God didn't meet me
1:37:46
like you. He made me different, So I'm not gonna think like you.
1:38:00
This one was tough, and that's my final thought. This one was
1:38:09
tough. It was, but I made it through. We made it through.
1:38:19
I hope some of the information that I provided to y'all with regards to
1:38:25
Carl Russell, Uh, maybe that answer some of your questions. I don't
1:38:29
know. We're still gonna wait. But a lot of what that FBI agent
1:38:38
said really truly made sense. But again, we're just gonna wait. Again.
1:38:46
I pay I pray for Carl Russell's mental, I pray for her physical,
1:38:53
I play. I pray for her overwall, overall well being. I
1:38:56
pray that I pray for her. And again I pray for the truth.
1:39:05
That's all I seek is the truth, because again, this is personal,
1:39:15
it is and on that mode, I'm gonna bring this show to a close.
1:39:25
Black Girl Interrupted will not be live tomorrow night because I did the show
1:39:29
tonight, So Black Girl Interrupted will not be live tomorrow night. I will
1:39:31
be back Thursday. Um, I gotta go back a little my episode guide
1:39:38
on what Thursday. This episode, I believe I'm speaking on health. I
1:39:41
believe I'm I'm talking health. I think I don't know. I think I
1:39:46
could be wrong. Am I talking about relationships on Thursday? I don't know
1:39:53
this this My mind has just really been all over the place. But we
1:39:58
made it through another episode of Black Girl Interrupted. But I do want to
1:40:03
say happy Monday. I hope everyone had a great and beautiful day, y'all,
1:40:09
thanks again for tuning in to another episode of Black Girl Interrupt that podcast.
1:40:14
I appreciate the continuous love and the support that you guys give me each
1:40:17
and every episode. I appreciate all the input, all the comments, all
1:40:23
the thoughts, all the opinions. I appreciate all of that. It's greatly
1:40:27
appreciated. I'm very humble. Oh that's right, Sis. My sister she
1:40:38
got me on Thursday. I'm so sorry, y'all. I'm telling you,
1:40:41
my mind has just been all over the place. Thursday, I am addressing
1:40:45
bullying, cyber bullying, online bullying, whatever you want to call it.
1:40:50
I am addressing bullying. I'm gonna see if my son I think he's off
1:40:57
Thursday. I'm gonna see if my son will come on and tell his story.
1:40:59
My son was bullied, So I am addressing bullying and what we need
1:41:05
to do as people. We need to take some steps to control that bullying
1:41:11
because this is one of the causes for the increased suicide rate, is bullying.
1:41:19
So that would be Thursday night, a thirty pm Central time, nine
1:41:24
thirty pm Eastern time. Again, I'm gonna say, I need to call
1:41:28
my son and see my son is all Thursday, because I really want my
1:41:30
son to come on and tell his story when he was bullied in elementary school,
1:41:34
and I want y'all to really know how he felt, how it made
1:41:39
him feel, and what has happened to him to this thing, because bullying
1:41:45
does leave long, long term effects. That leaves long lasting effects on people.
1:41:50
But we'll get into that Thursday night. Like I said, A thirty
1:41:54
pm Central Time, nine thirty pm Eastern time, I do want to let
1:41:58
you know that one of the Man magazine articles, one of the interviews that
1:42:00
I've done for the magazine, was dropped today. So I will go ahead
1:42:06
and I will post the link on my page as well as I will post
1:42:10
it on the Black girlins throughout that podcast, website, I mean on the
1:42:14
Facebook page. The website is still down. I am working to get the
1:42:17
website back up. Unfortunately, I had so got so sidetrack this weekend.
1:42:25
I didn't get a chance to do anything that I said I needed to do
1:42:28
a couple of people I needed to reach out to, but this weekend was
1:42:31
just absolutely crazy. But again, the link for the interview. I will
1:42:39
go ahead and I will post the link not only on my personal page but
1:42:42
also on the Black Girl and to erupt that page. And I am don't
1:42:45
have anything to do this weekend. I'm home. I'm relaxing because I've got
1:42:49
to get this my website back up and running. But again, you guys,
1:42:55
I appreciate you guys showing up for me. I appreciate y'all loving on
1:42:58
me. Again. Happy Monday. I hope everyone has a great and beautiful
1:43:02
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1:43:05
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1:43:10
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1:44:21
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1:44:27
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