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Police Cover Up in Jackson Mississippi · Black Girl Interrupted Podcast

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Black Girl Interrupted. Y'all already know how y'all already know how it started grupt.
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All right, all right, what's up, y'all. It's your girl,
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ash bringing y'all another episode of Black Girl Interrupted. And baby, when
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I tell you, I'm so excited, like I don't think like y'all really
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truly understand, like how much I enjoy doing this, Like when I tell
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y'all like I'm tired, Like I'm tired, but I'm ready to get into
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the bag because Baby, let me tell you something. This something I'm trying
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to do full time. This time I'm really trying to make a career out
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of But any who, y'all, welcome back to another episode of Black Girl
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Interrupted. For those that are just tuning in, my name is Ashley.
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I am your favorite girl from a Bible by beg. Y'all better get into
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it with me because I have some great conversations. But any who, Oh,
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it's a nice conversation. It's much needed. It's it's we really got
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to get into it. I've been seeing people have conversations here and there,
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but I'm gonna bring it to a Black Girl interrupt that podcast. But Happy
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Tuesday. I hope everyone is having a great day. I hope your week
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has been good so far. Hope the weekend was good to you. I
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hope everyone's operative teams or whoever they cheered for, have made it to the
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playoffs. Unfortunately, my Saints didn't make it, but that's cool. I'm
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not tripping. I'm still black and gold for like, and that's all that
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matters to me. But I really hope to see Baltimore in the playoffs.
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Like in the super Bowl, I really wanted for Lamar Jackson. I'm glad
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the Cowboys are out of it. I knew the Texans weren't going anywhere,
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so it is what it is. But no, but really again, Welcome
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back to another episode of Black Girl. Interrupted tonight's conversation. We're gonna get
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into the police cover ups that are going on in Jackson, Mississippi. Why
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does this keep happening? And who in the hell is responsible for all of
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this? But y'all already know before I start any episode, y'all already know
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I have to do my mental health check in it's imperative that I know how
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you're doing mental not only mentally, but physically, emotionally, spiritually, because
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I want people to know that you're not alone. If you're struggling, please
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reach out to somebody, let somebody know. Just know you're not by yourself
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and there are there is help out there to help you through the highs and
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lows. For me, mentally, I'm good. I won't complain about anything
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because we already know complaining gets us nowhere. So I always play something inspirational,
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something motivational, something to get your going, kind of help you over
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the the Tuesday hump for tomorrow's Wednesday. It's hump day, so we're just
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a few days away from the weekend. But I always want to make sure
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everyone stays encouraged, empowered, uplifted, and just know that I love you
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and know that you are not by yourself. So here we go. In
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there, we're gonna jump into tonight's conversation. Let's go say thank you for
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grace, thank you for mercy, thank you for understanding, thank you for
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wisdom, thank you for parents, thank you for love, thank you for
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kindness, thank you for humility, thank you for piece, thank you for
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prosperity. Say thank you in advance for what's already yours. Shall I live
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my life? That's why I am one of the reasons why I am today
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say thank you in advance for what is already yours. Thank you, thank
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you, thank you, Thank you for this day. Thank you for every
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moment that led to this day. Thank you for the hard times they made
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me appreciate the good times. Thank you for the lessons they were needed for
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my development. Thank you for my eyes they get to witness the miracles of
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today and tomorrow. Thank you for everything I take for granted. Thank you
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for all of my blessings. Thank you for my drive. Thank you for
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my spirit. Thank you for my strength. Thank you for giving me the
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courage to fight through the hard times. Thank you for the people in my
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life, those I love and those I learn from. Thank you for it
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all. Thank you, thank you. It's the key that opens the door
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to instant happiness, unlocks the door to everything we are really seeking in life,
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happiness and contentment. Think about, no matter what you say you want
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money, riches, health, to help others, why do you really want
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it? When you drill deep down, the only reason anyone wants anything is
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the feeling we believe we will get from happiness. That all boils down to
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happiness and contentment and the truth is. We can have it now if we
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are grateful, And if you get quiet, get away from the noise of
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the world and think for a moment about what you could be grateful for.
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I'm sure you could find plenty. Grateful there's food on the tape, airing
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your lungs, life in your body. Get grateful that you have opportunity,
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opportunity to take your life to a whole nother level, to decide right now
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that you are going to live your dreams and never settle until you do.
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Get grateful for the mental strength you've been given to survive the hard times.
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Get grateful for your limbs if you have it, many are not so blessed.
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Your eyesight if you have it, many are not so blessed. You're
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hearing if you have it, Many are not so blessed. The health you
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do have. Many are in worse positions. Get grateful for that one person
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that has had an impact in your life, or many people. If you
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are so blessed, then get grateful you can choose to be that person for
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someone else, that one that makes a difference in someone else's life, no
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matter how small. Get grateful you get to experience this. To go universe
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today. Look for miracles. I guarantee if you are looking, you will
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see them. There are unlimited things that be grateful for. Open your eyes,
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unlock your amizs in life. It's ready for you right now. Thank
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you for this day, whatever it brings, whether a challenge I need to
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grow a lineup to teach me patience, an unexpected blessing, every moment of
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joy, whatever today brings, Thank you, whatever it brings, I pray
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I have enough presence in each moment to know that no circumstance is my life,
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no high or low, no event, no thing is my life.
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Life is energy, and I know I'm so much more than my physical body.
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Thank you for my ability to love, to give to others my pentic
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love and kindness without expecting anything in return. Thank you for my strength,
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thank you for my presence. Thank you for my ability to attract only the
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things and people that are in harmony with what I need in my life.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you for this day, whatever it brings.
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Their video there was like so powerful, so inspirational, just it was
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much needed, not only for y'all, but for me. I needed that
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for me because again I've focused and I've dwelt so much on the negative that
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I forgot about the positive. I forgot that God woke me up this morning.
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I still have a roof over my head, I still have clothes on
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my back, I have food in my house, have a car to drive.
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I have a beautiful circle of people that I surround myself with. So
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I just want to say, be thankful. You know, if you don't
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think anybody else, thank God. I think God that I'm in the position
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i'm in. I thank God for allowing me to provide a platform to utilize
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my voice. That's what I thank God for. So, oh, there's
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my sister. He's suss. Look, I'm learning how to do it,
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the little heart. I'm learning how to do it. See, I get
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better every time I do it. But I love you. But I'm just
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thankful. I'm thankful for uh being healthy. You know. I'm thankful.
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I'm not where I was last week. I'm thankful I'm not where I was
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last month. I'm thankful that I'm not where I was last year. I'm
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grateful. I'm thankful for all of that. So I really wanted to play
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that that motivational video because I want you to remember to always be thankful for
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the little things and not just the big things. Yes, the small thing,
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but and the small things will always get you to the big things.
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So celebrate those small victories so when the big victories come, you can celebrate
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even more. But I'm thankful and I'm grateful for that. Hold on,
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we we got some comment. It's us. See. Let me tell you,
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I'm getting better with doing these hearts. But yeah, but I'm grateful
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for the people that are around me. I'm grateful for the people that support
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me. I'm grateful for the people that keep me grounded. I'm grateful and
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thankful for the people that support me my ups, my downs, my highs,
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my lows. They've been there for me. They've never left me.
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Uh So I'm thankful for that. So I really wanted to play that particular
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video because today is Tuesday. So let's be thankful thankful Tuesday. Let's let's
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utilize that, and let's always speak positivity. Let's start reciting our affirmations every
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day. My affirmation is I'm gonna walk away from corporate America. Podcasting is
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going to be my career. This is something that I'm gonna be able to
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pursue and do full time and and be able to get back. You know,
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my kids deserve this. My kids deserve a good life. They've earned
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that, you know, and and I want to provide that and give that
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to them. So just be thankful. That's a lie, but anyway,
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but let me know in the comments, how are you feeling? Today is
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Tuesday. I know it's been difficult, but we made it, y'all.
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We made it. We woke up another day. We've pushed through. We've
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been able to make it through this day. I know yesterday may have been
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rough, for here we are today and God gave us another chance to do
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it all over again. So with that being said, I'm ready to jump
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into tonight's conversation because let me take a deep breath, because when this story
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first broke, it was very disheartening because as a mother whose child has gone
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missing and no one knows anything or they refuse to provide you any information,
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and then when you are providing information, it's not the news that you want.
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So tonight's conversation, we're talking about the police covers up cover ups in
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Mississippi. Why does this keep happening? And who is responsible for this?
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Who do we need to hold accountable for this? So the police cover up
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that have been going on in Mississippi. Some of you may be very familiar
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with Dexter Wade. Dexter Wade was the thirty year old African black man that
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went missing in Jackson, Mississippi. He would miss and I believe in Fbuary
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or early part of twenty twenty three, And it was only October twenty twenty
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three when his mother received the phone call saying that they had located her son.
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But at this point or someone was dead. HM. For this man
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to have been missing as long as he was and no one could give this
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mother answers, it's sickening to me. But for those that are not familiar
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with the story, here we go some new NBC News reporting tonight. It's
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giving us more insight on a story of death and mystery and anger over an
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apparent lack of good police work and accountability in Jackson, Mississippi. I'm talking
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about the story of Dexter Wade, who we now know was killed less than
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a half hour after leaving his home back in March, but his family only
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found that out this month. Wade was struck and killed by a Jackson police
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car, apparently as he tried to cross a highway nearby, and even though
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police knew exactly who they hit, within days of that accident, official say
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his mother, Betterson Wade, would spend the next seven months. She would
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spend seven months looking for her son. It wasn't until one hundred and seventy
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two, difficult days after Betterson last saw Wade, that they came together again,
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this time at his unmarked grave in a state run cemetery. NBC's John
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Shupe is the reporter with this story. John, We're glad to have you
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with us today. It is the details here just shortenard right, because essentially
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what happened here is this seven month long mystery for this family, despite police,
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apparently according to official accounts, knowing for months who they hit, where
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he was buried, and not reaching out to the family. How did this
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happen? That's one of the questions that we have is how exactly it happened.
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But we know some details and a sketch of what happened. It began,
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as you mentioned, on March the fifth, when Dexter Wade, he's
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thirty seven years old, left home and never came back. It turned out.
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Not far from home. Not long after he left, he was struck
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and killed by an off duty Jackson Police officer. A corner's investigator arrives at
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the scene, takes his body back to the examination table, finds a prescription
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bottle of pills that has his name on it. The corner's investigator calls the
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hospital where he got the pills, gets the next to kin, who's his
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mother, better steinweight, and forwards that information on to the Jackson Police Department's
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accident investigation squad. Meanwhile, the mother, Betterstein, has no idea any
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of this has happened. On the fourteenth of March, reports him missing to
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the Missing Persons unit, and for months is checking for updates and searching for
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him and gets no answers. Meantime, it's not clear why, but she
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was never told that they had him in the morgue the entire time, So
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ultimately someone figured it out within the Jackson Police Department and let her know,
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and that's when she realized that while she was looking for him, they had
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assumed in the coroner's office that he was unclaimed and arranged for him to be
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buried in a pauper's field, and so as you showed the pictures just earlier
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a minute ago. That moment came a couple of weeks ago where she finally
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got to see the grave marked only with a number of where her son is
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buried. I know, John, that you and the team piece this together
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from interviews with his family, the coroner's investigator, court records, documents provided
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in response to your request, a crash report, incident reports, other documents,
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office records. I mean, so much of this. It took a
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lot of putting some puzzle pieces here just to get I think, some sense
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of what happened. And yet through it all. As of tonight, have
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you gotten any response from the police department itself. None. As soon as
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I just before leaving to come talk to you, I was reaching out to
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the city. They're preparing some sort of response, but I'm not sure that
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they fully comprehend of how this mistake was made. We have notes, internal
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notes and documents that show what they knew. It's just not clear yet about
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why it was shared. Well, does it kind of ability look like for
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this family? Just quickly, John, what does that look like? I
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think for Betterstein Wade, the mother is just somebody to acknowledge that there was
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a mistake. She can accept if an accident was made, but just an
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acknowledgment and an apology. She just wants to be heard. It sounds like
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John Shoppy, thank you so much. I really sho you bring us the
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story tonight. Thanks for watching. Stay updated about breaking news and top stories
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on the NBC News app, or follow us on social media. Let me
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take a moment to just digest that for just a moment, and let me
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correct myself. I do apologize. He was thirty seven years old. My
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apologies. My confusion comes because I dug a little deeper into this story.
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The officer that the medical examiner notified stated he contacted the family, but no
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one answered the phone. So my question is, why didn't you think to
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call back. You knew who he was, You had his address, or
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you could have into the pharmacy and they could have provided you an address and
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you could have notified the family in person. Dexter Wade was killed March twenty
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twenty three, wasn't buried until July fourteenth, And a pauper was great by
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just a number. And the saddest part about all of this, y'all threw
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them away like he was trash like he was nothing. This man had a
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family, a mother that had been searching for her son for seven months.
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She reported and missing just a little over a week after he left the home,
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just a little over a week, you had his identification. There was
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a pill bottle that was on his body, and you made no other attempts
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to try to locate this young man's family. And the mom pleaded and called
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every day, wanted to know where her son was, and all the while
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her son's body laid in a more But let's always let's remember they knew who
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he was. It wasn't like they didn't know. It wasn't like, oh,
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well you knew, and not one person, one person took the initiative
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to say, okay, well, if you didn't answer the phone, let's
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go to the house. Because from my understanding, I thought death notifications were
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done in person. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't know, maybe things have
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changed, but that's the way I've always seen things that death notifications are done
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in person. I've seen some that are done on the phone, but I
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always thought a death notification was done in person. But you hit this man.
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A Mississippi police officer hit Dex the weight thirty seven year old dex the
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Weight was killed by a Mississippi police officer, no accountability whatsoever, no zero.
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He laid in the morgue from March till July, and in July is
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when they decided to bury him in a pauper's grave, a paupa mitery and
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labeled him as just a number. And you have a mother that was calling
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every day for an update with regards to her son, and y'all knew.
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Y'all knew her son was laying in the moor. Hey, Jemini, it
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says they murdered him. Absolutely, they yeah, they did, because he
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had left the house. I'm gonna try to go back. I'll try to
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skip through the video and and well I can't because I and I should have
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took a picture of the timeline. But he left the home at seven point
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thirty and at seven fifty four he was hitting killed by a Mississippi police officer.
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Y'all failed his family, and you threw him away like he was trash,
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like he was nothing. You knew who he was. That's the disheartening
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part to me, is that you knew who he was. I could see
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if you didn't, if he had no identification on him if you didn't know,
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But there were other ways you could have, you know, if he
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didn't. So if he didn't have identifications on him, let's let's just see
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if he didn't have any type of identification on him, fingerprints, and you
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could have located. But y'all had the information right there, and you still
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didn't think we need to notify his family his next a kid? Was he
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married, did he have children? You know, things like that. But
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this mother searched for seven months to find her son, and then she got
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the phone call that Dexter had been located, but he was dead. He
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was dead. So let's kind of let that digest for just a moment,
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Let that soap in for just a moment, because again, he went missing
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in March. Okay, in March March twenty twenty three, he was hitting
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killed by a Mississippi police officer. Mother reported and missing March the twelfth.
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I'm trying to remember the dates. Okay, the mother reported and missing,
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like I said, just a little over a week and all the while y'all
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had his ID and there was a pill bottle that was located on his body.
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Police officer says, oh I tried the call, but I didn't get
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an answer. Common Sense didn't tell you to go to the house. Common
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sense didn't say, let's go to the pharmacy if you know, and maybe
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they can you know, they'll provide an address or maybe a last known address.
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Or why didn't you try to call back if you didn't get an answer,
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Why didn't you try to call back? So you're responsible. You're liable
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for this. And the fact that you didn't acknowledge the mother's pain is even
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more heart wrenching. It's like you ripped his mother's heart out, not once,
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but twice. And he laid in the medical examiner's office from March until
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July. Y'all April May June July, four months his body laid in the
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in the in the morgue before you said, oh he's been uncleaned. We're
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just gonna throw all my weight, We're just gonna bear him in a paupa's
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grave and he's just gonna be known as a number. No, that's not
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acceptable. I hope this mother soothes and I hope this mother wins. I
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hope whoever is responsible for this, I hope you pay for this. You
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need to be held accountable for the untimely and unfortunate murder of dext Away.
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If I'm not mistaken, I believe he had children. You've taken a father
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away, you've taken a brother away, you've taken a son away, You've
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taken someone's loved and loved one awake, and you didn't care. And that's
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the disheartening part about that is you just oh buried him in a grave and
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just labeled him as a number. So Jim and I say, that's said.
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Jule says, that's bs. They knew exactly who that man was,
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absolutely and they did because they stated, again, y'all, I got into
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the meat and potatoes of this of this story. He called the family,
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Okay, he called, but didn't get an answer, and he never tried
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to call back, didn't try to go to the house. He tried to
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get no additional information with regards to Death's the weight. No information. You
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didn't care. And now you have a mother who pondered for seven months.
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Let that spoke in Ladies and gentlemen. A mother who sat for seven months
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patiently waiting for updates about her son. This mother called every date and then
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in October of twenty twenty three. Again, seven months, y'all, seven
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okay, seven months after dex the Wight was murdered. Was when you decided
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to go ahead and tell her, oh, yeah, your son is dead
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and he's buried in a pauper's Greek. I could only imagine the mother receiving
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that phone call. I could only imagine how the mother felt that for seven
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months, you knew her son was dead. You knew March the twelfth,
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when she called to report her son missing, you knew he was dead.
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Y'all knew this. Y'all failed him. Y'all felt the mother and every other
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parent or father, daughter, son, brother, cousin of you have failed.
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The system failed the family of Dexter Wade, and they felt Dexter Way
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as a person. The way you treated him in the afterlife disgusting because you
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threw him away like he was nothing, and you knew who he was.
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That's the part that stinks to me. I remember when I first heard this
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story, it brought tears to my eyes because I have a son, and
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I put myself in his mother's shoes, because I said, how would I
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feel if that was my child? Somebody has to pay. Somebody has to
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answer for this. That's the way. Didn't deserve that. So let me
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catch you up, let me give you some more updates, because that's the
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way. Was not the only person that this happened to in Jackson, Mississippi,
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but we'll get into him in just a moment. But here we go
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now to a difficult and disturbing story out of Mississippi. Just weeks after NBC
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News learned about a man who was killed and buried without his family's knowledge,
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we've learned it happened again in DC's I Ain't Alexander has more for Marcedes on
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a Chuku. Her big brother, Mario Moore was one of a kind.
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He was full of wisdom and charm, and he just just had a personality
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that you did not forget easily. His life wasn't easy. He'd spent years
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fighting a drug habit and could disappear for months at a time, but he
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would always come home. Until last month, when their sister, Marquita Moore,
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saw an article from NBC affiliate WLBT about homicides there in Jackson, Mississippi
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that had gone unreported. Mario's name was second on the list. I just
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broke down. I felt just weak and I couldn't do anything else. According
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to the coroner's report, Moore was killed by bloot force trauma to the head.
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His body was found on the street wrapped in a tarp, eight months
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before his family ever knew then the second shock, Mario had already been buried
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in a pauper's grave behind the county jail. We do not have a grave
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number. We don't have anything other than basically the corner saying I buried his
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body in an undisclosed location. For his mother, Mary Moore Glenn, the
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grief is unspeakable. They put him in a bag and they just dump them
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in a grave like they're a dog or something. Who gives you the right
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to do that. He was buried on July fourteenth, the very same day
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and location as Dexter Wade. His case sparks national outrage after NBC News first
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reported he was hidden killed by an off duty Jackson police officer, then buried
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before his family was ever notified. His mother, Betterstein Wade, had spent
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more than five months searching for her son. Help me understand what that time
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was like for you. That time was hale. You would lay in your
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bed, you would think he might have been out there suffering. I'm falling
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up beyond. After NBC's report, Wade's body was exhumed, and just this
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week his family held the funeral he was long denied. At the time,
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Jackson's mayor called it a failure in communication. The Jackson Police Department has not
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responded to our requests for comment on either case. A police commander told Moore's
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family an officer left a business card at their mother's home, which they say
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they never saw. If my son had a committed a crime out there,
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I said, you all will be coming knocking in my door, and if
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you didn't get anybody, you would have come back again again. Mario's family
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held a memorial service for him, but it has not stopped the questions.
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His homicide is still unsolved. Blaine Alexander, NBC News. I want your
33:12
to take that in for just a moment. I want to let that kind
33:21
of digest for just a minute, because that's a mother. Let me just
33:40
just give me just a moment. How do you receive that your son,
34:12
your child, not just your son, your child, your son, your
34:15
daughter murdered and thrown away. Mario Moore twenty four homicides in Jackson Mississippi undisclosed.
34:47
There's no coming back from that. You have two families that searched for
35:02
months for their children. Jackson Police Department knew who these individuals were for her
35:25
son's name to be the second on the list. Very heartbreaking, very disheartened.
35:44
Mario Moore was brutally beaten to death, wrapped in a top and left
35:50
on the street and buried in a papa's grave, same way as that's the
36:00
way, And no one has any answers for these families. Hey bebe,
36:12
I hope you're having a good night at work. I love you. No
36:19
answers, These attempts were bs to me, some pisspoor attempts. Had it
36:34
have been their family member, had it been someone of their family, well,
36:40
they have had that same energy. Two families, one answers. Mario
36:54
Moore's family, they don't even have a body, the medical example, they
37:05
don't even know where they buried him at no number nothing, But you expect
37:14
these families to be okay, it's unacceptable. Somebody needs to be held accountable
37:22
for this. And then the sad part of our decks, the weeds death.
37:30
When the family went to Gold when they discovered his body, they wouldn't
37:37
have had a funeral service without the family's permission, and wanted the mother to
37:46
pay to take his body so they could have their own service. Another kick
37:57
in the gut. So you've killed these two black men, you knew who
38:07
they were. The way you notified the family was absolutely pissed. Poor.
38:17
You didn't go back to try to notify the family. You left a card.
38:29
What happened to? What happened to protecting and serving? So Rafael says,
38:38
sue the whole damn state? Yeah, the city, the city,
38:43
Well, yeah, the state Mississippi. You could sue the city, You
38:47
could sue the police department. But you have twenty four homicides and you know
39:01
the names of the people. Javerta says, hey, brother, She says,
39:08
hey brother, law two families, two families just won't answers and apology
39:29
and acknowledgement. You failed two families and countless other families because again there's twenty
39:38
four. There were twenty four homicides undisclosed in Jackson. You failed Jackson,
39:51
Mississippi. I'm gonna go on record and I'm gonna say you failed. You
39:57
have failed the family of debts the way you have found failed the family of
40:00
Mario Moore and the countless of the victims that are laying in these pauper grades
40:06
that you know who they are, Your fail them and it's absolutely disgusting.
40:19
And who's to say this is not happening in other states, not just Jackson
40:28
that has yet to be exposed. But don't worry, when those chickens come
40:36
home the roost, somebody's gonna pay. My heart definitely and absolutely goes out
40:46
to the family of Mario Moore. I pray that they are able to locate
40:51
his body so they can have a proper burial. He deserves that. Regardless
40:57
of what Mario Moore passed was, He's still a human, He's still somebody's
41:02
son, He's still somebody's sibling. He deserves that. What happened to the
41:10
empathy? You know, what happened to that? What happened to the compassion?
41:22
So Javert says, like, what makes them think it's okay to do
41:25
that to someone and get away with it. They look at the fact that
41:28
they have families. Also, they don't put themselves in the other family shoes,
41:31
and they don't they look at them as just another nigga. We don't
41:39
have to worry about. And I'm just gonna go ahead and say the word,
41:42
just another nigga with the hard eat off. We're just gonna throw them
41:50
away. Well Barry, no one, no one's gonna care about him.
41:53
Mario Moore was a recovering drug addict. Oh that's one that's crack crackhead off
41:58
the street, is what they're thinking. But regardless of what demons does,
42:04
man battle, he was still a human being. He still had loved ones
42:08
that cared deeply about him. So for y'all to throw him away like he
42:15
was trash, for y'all to just discard him and throw him away, it's
42:19
disheartening to me, and I hope both families are able to file lawsuits.
42:29
I hope justice comes for both of these families, not also including the other
42:36
families whose loved ones are buried out in these pop for grades. I just
42:47
really want to scream right now because this is sad. But here's more of
42:55
the story of Mario Moore. An investigation by a seen An affiliate has revealed
43:02
Jackson, Mississippi's police department, did not publicly disclose the names of dozens of
43:07
homicide victims this year. We recently told you about Dexter Wade, a man
43:13
in Mississippi who was hit and killed by a Jackson Police Department vehicle and buried
43:17
without his family's knowledge. Wade's mother told me about when police finally contacted her
43:22
about her son months later. Well, when they first called me and said
43:28
we found Dester, I said, oh Lord, let him be okay.
43:31
So I said, uh, whore he had or what's you know going on
43:38
with him? She said, well, I let Officer Gerard come out there
43:43
and talk to you. Right then, when she said that is just my
43:49
heart drunk because I knew, you know, I just knew that he was
43:54
deceased. New reporting by seen an affiliate WLB has now revealed a similar case.
44:01
Forty year old Mario Moore was killed in February, buried in the same
44:07
Paupers field where Dexter Wade was buried. Moore's family did not find out about
44:12
his death until October after seeing his name. Wlbt's reporting on more than twenty
44:16
homicide victims that Jackson police did not disclose to the public. Joining me now
44:22
is the investigative reporter who brought this to light. CJ. Lamaster of a
44:25
CNN's affiliate there in Jackson CJ. Good to see you. This is I
44:31
want to say, unbelievable, but not it is heartbreaking. Tell us this
44:36
story because unlike Dexter Wade, who was killed by an off duty officer,
44:42
this man, mister Moore, was found dead and then reported to police.
44:45
What's his story? So what happened here is a situation where he was killed
44:52
by blunt force trauma. That's what we know. He was found wrapped in
44:55
a tar on a street in the western part of the city and at that
45:00
point police claimed they did not There were conflicting reports as to whether there was
45:07
even ID found on him, but suffice it to say it took some time
45:10
for them to identify him. But at that point, all we know from
45:14
the captain who was in charge of detectives for the department. He told us
45:16
in an interview that essentially they sent a detective to a home that they found
45:22
in connection with more. They left a card and that was it. There
45:28
was no follow up. We pressed the captain for this in one of our
45:30
interviews and he didn't really have any explanation. He said, well, that
45:36
is sufficient. Now we know now that since all this had happened, since
45:39
NBC and other national news agencies have picked up the story as well that now
45:45
the city of Jackson, the police department, for the first time, has
45:47
a death notifications policy, a six page policy. So that came out of
45:52
this. But it took the family not finding out about this until October for
45:58
any of this to to happen and for the ball to be rolling. And
46:00
I got to tell you, Victor, this is something. It was one
46:06
thing for us to find out that there were twenty four individual victims, twenty
46:09
two cases that the public that we had not been told about, but to
46:14
find out that one of those was a situation where the family wasn't told either.
46:20
Like you said, it's heartbreaking. You can't fathom that. Let's listen
46:23
to Mario Moore's sister, Marquita here on what she expected from police. How
46:31
many times do you come back to notify the family if you did come here,
46:36
did you come back the next day, did you try to follow up
46:38
on your report? And so what is the department doing now these twenty four
46:45
individual victims. We now know that Moore's family has been notified, are they
46:49
trying again to reach out to the next of kin of these people? So
46:54
at this point we don't know. In fact, the department has, as
47:00
you might imagine, been fairly tight lipped since these investigations have come forward,
47:06
since these two cases in particular have garnered such national attention. The department only
47:12
speaking through a city spokesperson at this point. But it seems at least going
47:16
forward that this will be happening. But even when I tried to get information
47:21
about these twenty four victims, so we could even put that out there to
47:24
try and help detectives, because you would think that detectives would need that information
47:29
to the public so they could got our leads, they could look forward to
47:31
developments in the case, we gotten very little. I'm saying maybe a paragraph's
47:36
worth of information, And so that's part of the problem here. We talked
47:39
to the captain about this, Captain Abraham Thompson, who, by the way,
47:43
after our story came out, I think a day later, he was
47:46
shifted. He's no longer over detectives in the department. He's not over a
47:50
single certified officer. But he told us, he said, well, you
47:52
know, I'm not even really that frustrated that information didn't get out, because
47:57
we don't want to put a time frame on solving these cases, and that
48:00
sort of flies in the face of what you're familiar with. I'm sure people
48:05
that the first forty eight hours of the most crucial when it comes to investigating
48:07
homicides. And what more is Jackson saying about this this specific case and what
48:13
they are planning to do as they move forward? You say, this new
48:15
six page protocol. So this new six page protocol, we actually just got
48:22
a copy of it not long ago. I want to say it was a
48:24
day or so ago that we finally got a copy of it through a records
48:28
request. And essentially it puts Jackson in line with other agencies, with other
48:32
cities frankly smaller than Jackson that requires every effort to be made to be able
48:38
to contact these individuals when something happens. Keep in mind that the city actually
48:44
has blamed this on a miscommunication, on a failure of communication, if you
48:47
will, but recently has shifted that to blaming the coroner's office, because according
48:53
to statute, the coroner's office does have responsibilities in notifying the family. And
49:00
what we saw with the Dexter Wade case, what we saw, what we're
49:02
seeing now with the Mario Moore case, is that there's this shifting of blame
49:07
to the corner's office, and the corner's office you might imagine not returning our
49:10
calls, not saying anything publicly about this. We may see more details when
49:16
it, I would assume becomes litigated at some point. Obviously, Ben Crump
49:21
has been retained by both families here, and so fully we'll learn some answers
49:25
through that. But it's certainly been incredibly frustrating to not really know and have
49:30
any accountability in something like this. All right, C. J. Lamaster
49:35
with WLBT, thank you so much for your time this morning and for your
49:38
work on this story. The police department in Corner's office since and and copies
49:43
of their reports. The Jackson Mayor's office declined comment, it's the lack of
49:59
account of for me. I'm just gonna go ahead and see it. It's
50:04
the lack of accountability for me. Now. Everybody wants to play the blame
50:08
game, everybody wants to point thingers, but no one wants to take accountability
50:13
that you have failed these families. Period. I don't care who did it.
50:23
You're all culpable, from the police officer to the captain, to the
50:28
chief down to the medical examiner. All of y'all are culpable in all of
50:32
this, and the fact that you failed these families, I pray and I
50:40
know it's not about money. I know it's not about money. I know
50:44
it's not monetary things. But I pray that these families because there are twenty
50:51
two other families that are still out here looking for their loved ones. Y'all
51:00
want to blame the medical examiner. The medical examiner wants to blame the police
51:04
officer. The police officer wants to blame the captain. You want to blame
51:07
the sergeant. Why can't you just say, you know what, we all
51:13
failed, because you're all culpable in all of this. Because when someone is
51:16
killed, they go to the in me, okay, the medical examiner is
51:24
who positively identifies these bodies, whether it's through fringerprints, whether it's through dental
51:30
records. Everyone is culpable in all of this. And to know that there
51:36
is a list with twenty four names that you don't want to release to the
51:43
public, that says a lot about the state of Mississippi, that says a
51:49
lot about the city of Jackson and the mayor. You are pitiful, sir,
51:57
because you need to hold these people accountable. You have two families whose
52:07
sons were thrown away, plus the twenty two other families that y'all have yet
52:14
to identify. Make it make sense to me, please, Everyone's culpable in
52:21
all of this. Everyone bears a brunt of responsibility in the deaths of Mario
52:28
Moore, that's the way, and the twenty two other victims whose names y'all
52:32
fail to disclose. Y'all are all culpable in all of this. And I'm
52:37
musa say it over and over and over again. Y'all failed. Y'all have
52:45
failed these families. And then you heard him when he said, the person
52:52
that was over the police is no longer overseeing anybody. That smells like a
53:01
cover up to me. Twenty four homicides, and I'm with a sister.
53:13
Mario Moore's sister said, did you call? Did you come back the next
53:20
day a couple of days later? Did you try to call? Sounds to
53:25
me like they didn't do anything. They just left the car to make it
53:28
seem as if they really were concerned, as if they were really investigating,
53:35
to try to cover their tracks. I need to let this, I I
53:45
need to really I I need to sit on that for just a moment,
53:49
because you're through these these these people awake like nothing. You didn't care,
54:10
you didn't care. And the fact that everyone's pointing fingers instead of somebody saying,
54:19
you know what, we're all on the hook for this, we're all
54:22
liable for this, we all failed these families. Not one person has come
54:29
forth to say, you know what, we're all responsible. That's all these
54:35
families want. It's some type of accountability. It's for someone to say we
54:39
fail. That's too much like right for y'all to simply say we messed up.
54:52
We messed up big time. We should have done more. We need
55:00
to change our notification policy, something, but not a work. Two mothers
55:15
plus the twenty two other victims buried in Papa's graves and labeled by just a
55:28
number, as if their lives didn't matter. I need to sit on that
55:37
for just a moment. I need to take a breath. I'm really trying
55:44
to hold back these tears because I'm a mom. And the fact that y'all
55:58
let these mothers down and not even a I'm sorry, not even a we're
56:08
messed up. Everybody is responsible, not even that, and acknowledgment where do
56:22
we go from here, ladies and gentlemen, which takes me into a continuation
56:32
of this. Let me let that process for just a moment, because we
56:44
have two bodies I'm so sorry, twenty four homicide victims. And then we
56:53
also have the two hundred and fifteen bodies that were discovered behind the Mississippi jail.
57:10
So now we have two hundred and thirty nine people two hundred and forty
57:20
just thrown away. For those that aren't familiar, back in December, the
57:28
story broke of two hundred and fifteen bodies discovered behind a Mississippi jail in Raymond,
57:34
Mississippi, which is not too far from Jackson. Two hundred and fifteen
57:39
bodies buried in Paupa's braids. For those that are not familiar with the story,
57:50
here we go an unsettling situation in Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi. To
57:55
be exact, it's been revealed two hundred and fifteen were buried in unmarked grades
58:01
behind a state jail in Jackson. Of course, attorney Ben Cromp is now
58:07
calling for an investigation. Families of a dead reportedly had no idea until last
58:13
month. Some of them those grave sites were only labeled by a number and
58:17
a metal rod. Joining us to talk about it. Activists Arthur Silkie slim
58:22
Reid, who also works with Ben Cromp, So Arthur, this started with
58:30
Dexter Wade's case back in March. Right. He was an individual who was
58:34
hit by a police officer and his family thought he was simply missing, but
58:39
he was dead and buried and no one notified them. Well, the thing
58:45
about it is that he had identification on him, Isaiah, and the medical
58:51
examiner gave it to the lead detective who said he called, didn't get an
58:55
answer, and they didn't worry about doing anything else. What we're finding,
59:00
Isaiah, is that Mississippi is Mississippi. It's an ugly Mississippi. And this
59:07
is sad because now we have six other individuals that has been put into this
59:13
same grave. And if you look at the video from when we first went
59:16
to that site, that site, buzzards were flying overhead and we were trying
59:22
to figure out why are the buzzerts flying overhead, But it's because they're putting
59:27
them in shadow graves and the only thing that they're putting them in is a
59:30
body bag without embalming the bodies. So the stinch from the bodies are drawing
59:36
buzzes there. It's so in humane for anybody to do any one like that.
59:40
Isaiah is just horrible, is what we can say. And that's not
59:45
even a word that we should use in a situation like this. It's something
59:49
that we haven't seen. And what we're seeing here is over two hundred people
59:52
in this what they consider a pauper's grave behind the county jail there. And
59:59
what you guys are like and your investigation is many of these families were never
1:00:01
called, were never notified. Many of them still think they're family members or
1:00:07
thought their family members were simply missing, but they were dead and buried and
1:00:10
never got a call from any investigators, any law enforcement officials, authorities in
1:00:17
Jackson, Mississippi. That's right. And one of the things that we faced
1:00:22
being Mississippi is that they thought that we were playing the race card. We
1:00:29
have white clients as well. They were white people that were buried the same
1:00:32
way Isaiah, and any human being that's buried the way that they're burying these
1:00:38
individuals, it says a lot about the people that's doing this criminal act.
1:00:45
And the only thing that we're asking because people always look at us when we're
1:00:50
out fighting for civil rights of individuals. The only thing that we're asking in
1:00:53
this case, we want you to do the right thing and give them a
1:00:58
humane burial. And the city is you know, so it's crazy, Isaiah
1:01:02
to see something like that. It's twenty twenty three, it's not nineteen forty.
1:01:07
But to see them just dumping bodies in a grave like that and no
1:01:10
name, just a number. So they'll say, well, number thirteen,
1:01:14
that's all to read. Number twenty one is Isaiah care But we don't really
1:01:19
know until we get the remains, and then the remains had decomposed so bad.
1:01:23
We just have to take them at their word. And when you look
1:01:27
at the story, they told us that they would exhume this body at twelve
1:01:31
noon, but they ended up taking this young man dextra way out of the
1:01:37
ground at six thirty seven o'clock in the morning. They say, we were
1:01:43
not going to allow them to embarrass us with those cameras. If you're not
1:01:46
embarrassed by what you're doing, it's shame on you. Absolutely incredible. Now
1:01:52
you guys alone with Ben Krump and I think Attorney dinnis week, you all
1:01:57
are asking for a federal investigation has come in and take a look at this
1:02:01
and see exactly what's going on, because there's some questions as to Dexter Wade's
1:02:06
death when he was hit by the police officer, whatever happened with the officer
1:02:09
in this case, and why wasn't his family ever notified that he was dead
1:02:15
and not just a missing person. So bottom line, you want an investigation,
1:02:19
right. We think many civil rights who were violated in Dexter Wade's case
1:02:24
not notifying the family, burying him without permission when you knew who he was.
1:02:30
That's the key issue right there. You knew who this individual was.
1:02:36
And if you look at the Dexter Wade case, it's sad, but Dexter
1:02:39
Waite uncle was killed by Jackson police and they knew the family because they was
1:02:46
involved in an ongoing lawsuit with the dead family with attorney Sweets, who you're
1:02:52
talking about. So this is very, very very troubling for us for you
1:02:57
to know this family already and for you to do something like this. This
1:03:00
was added insult to already injury that you have done to this family. Isaiah
1:03:08
h. I want you all to take that last portion in I want you
1:03:21
to take that last portion in dex the Wade's family member was killed by Jackson
1:03:31
police and they were already in an ongoing lawsuit, so they were familiar.
1:03:40
Let that part soak in, ladies and gentlemen, let me let me,
1:03:44
let's let's I'm sorry, let's take that in for just a moment. Jule
1:03:57
says, it's a sad situation all the way around. Jackson, Mississippi,
1:04:02
is a disgrace. The fact that these families all they wanted is they just
1:04:27
wanted closure. They wanted to know what their loved one was. And if
1:04:35
it's not already discussing that, you've discarded these people like they were trash.
1:04:43
The fact that you're just wrapping them up in body bags and you're throwing them
1:04:46
in a hole, covering them up with dirt and sticking a number on top
1:04:51
of them. And the fact that the family of Dester Wade was they're already
1:05:00
in a lawsuit over another love when that was killed by Jackson police officer.
1:05:06
Like he said, this adds more insult to the injury. That when I
1:05:24
heard that, my heart dropped down to my feet because I said, not
1:05:39
only are you just throwing them away, but you're wrapping them up. You're
1:05:43
putting them in body bags. You're not embalming these bodies, you're putting zipping
1:05:50
them up in a bag. You've dug a hole, drown them in there,
1:05:56
cover the cover, the filled the hole back up and put a number
1:06:00
on top. Ashley, you're number eight seven three. That's it. And
1:06:08
then because of the decomposition of these bodies, it's gonna be hard to identify
1:06:15
who's who. And the fact that it's all racist. Y'all failed. Y'all
1:06:36
have completely failed. All two hundred and thirty nine plus families failed. And
1:06:53
now one person has come forth and said, you know what, where's responsible?
1:07:02
Were liable? Let me take some accountability. And the fact that the
1:07:11
mayor wanted these families to pay for their loved ones' bodies. You spit in
1:07:25
their face. Yet again, I just so, jule says. I never
1:07:39
knew that the jail house had a potter spill. I thought only penitentiaries had
1:07:43
potter spiel for unclean loved ones. Yet, oh yeah, I don't believe,
1:07:51
so, Julie. I don't believe all the jails, but I know
1:07:58
in Mississippi, and I believe Alabama too. I could be wrong, So
1:08:03
don't don't quote me on that. But I believe Alabama too have pauper's grace.
1:08:10
I need to dig a little deeper because I'm gonna go back and revisit
1:08:13
this story, uh later on. But yet, you have two hundred and
1:08:19
thirty nine plus families, two of which have been identified. But what about
1:08:30
the other two hundred and thirty seven whose loved ones just want to know,
1:08:41
just want to give them a proper burial that they deserve. They deserve that.
1:08:49
And for you, Mississippi, to allow this says a lot about yall.
1:09:01
The inhumane treatment that you've given to these people is absolutely disgusting. I'm
1:09:13
gonna keep saying this. I prayed at these families get some type of justice.
1:09:20
I prayed at these families get some kind of peace. I know it
1:09:31
won't bring their loved one back. For somebody needs to be held accountable.
1:09:36
Somebody needs to put their big boy pants on, a big girl pant is
1:09:42
on, and step up and say, you know what, we have failed
1:09:45
these two hundred plus families and stop pointing fingers and saying, oh no,
1:09:51
he did it, No she did it, Oh no, he did it.
1:09:54
Stop playing the blame game. And just take some damn accountability. That's
1:10:00
all we need. Just own it and say, you know what, we
1:10:05
drop the ball. We fail. Let's ensure that we don't do this to
1:10:11
another family. Let's ensure that some type of reform. That's too much like
1:10:23
right, that's too much like right. But somebody needs to be held accountable.
1:10:31
Somebody y'all are responsible for this. And the fact that the way you
1:10:39
notify these families absolutely absolutely disgusting. For you to make one phone call and
1:10:48
just go on about your day speaks a lot about your character. That right
1:10:57
there just shows me that you have no respect for mankind. What if this
1:11:05
was your loved one that this happened too, how would you feel? Please
1:11:15
put yourself in these parents loved ones shoes? What if this was your child?
1:11:23
What if this was your your mother, your father, your daughter,
1:11:26
your son, your mother, I'm sorry, your cousin, your aunt,
1:11:30
your niece, nephew, uncle, whatever, that this happened too. Wouldn't
1:11:35
you want somebody to be accountable for this? I know damn sure well I
1:11:39
would be. I would want to know, no matter how much it hurts,
1:11:46
I'd rather give I'd rather you give me the ugly truth. Than a
1:11:49
pretty lie. I'd rather you come to me and say, you know what,
1:11:55
Miss Pitts, we fucked up. That's what I would like for you
1:12:02
to say. That I might give you a tad bit of respect if you
1:12:05
took some accountability for taking my loved one away from me. And then the
1:12:13
fact that you have told these people if they want their loved ones' bodies back,
1:12:15
they gotta pay for them. What. Had you have notified these families
1:12:21
about their loved ones, you wouldn't have to worry about it. They would
1:12:27
have been given a proper burial. But you feel and now you want these
1:12:33
families to pay for your mistakes. Absolutely not. The math ain't mathing.
1:12:45
You want these people to pay for your mistake. That's egregious, it's disgusting,
1:12:57
it's heartbreaking. I'm livid about it because you want these families to pay
1:13:05
for your mistakes and y'all messed up. The only mistake that these families made
1:13:14
was entrusting Jackson to do their job, and you failed them tremendously. Your
1:13:26
police work piss poor. Your sergeants, your captains need to be fired.
1:13:36
Whoever participated in this. You need to be held accountable, and you need
1:13:42
to lose your job. You should not be allowed to work with people anymore,
1:13:46
period. You shouldn't be allowed because for you to treat someone's loved one
1:13:57
like that, I pray you have a good night's worth asleep. I pray
1:14:08
you don't sad. I'm telling you when this, when this, when these
1:14:15
stories came out and I first heard about it, I was sick in my
1:14:18
stomach. I said, how could someone be that cruel? How how could
1:14:32
y'all be that cruel to somebody? How? How do you sleep at night
1:14:42
knowing that someone's loved one is laying in the morgue and you know who they
1:14:47
are, and you didn't try to notify the family. Again and again and
1:14:54
again and again, say to those two hundred and thirty nine families, I'm
1:15:09
rolling into the final thoughts. To the two hundred and thirty nine victims.
1:15:21
I pray the day of justice comes. I pray that the man or woman
1:15:29
involved is held accountable. I pray that this does not happen to another family.
1:15:39
I pray that if this is happening in other cities, that this will
1:15:43
be the door to open up and expose the other cities that are participating in
1:15:47
such disgusting activity. I pray for that. My love and my prayer definitely
1:16:01
go out to those families. I grieve with you, I love with you,
1:16:13
I walk with you, and I pray with you that peace comes into
1:16:21
your heart. I pray that this doesn't turn you hard. I know it's
1:16:30
easier said than done, but please learn to lean on God for your own
1:16:38
understanding and know that in your darkest and hardest hours, God will always be
1:16:44
there. I pray that accountability comes. I pray that these two hundred and
1:16:53
thirty seven victims are identified so their loved ones can provide them the proper burial
1:17:00
that they soul deserve. I pray that whatever has happened in the dark will
1:17:06
now see its way to the light, as we've seen what that's the way
1:17:12
Mario Moore than others to the city of Jackson. Y'all are culpable for this.
1:17:23
You fail. I pray that you make it right with these families.
1:17:32
I pray that you take some accountability. I pray that all involved again.
1:17:38
I hope you lose your job. I hope you're not able to ever work
1:17:43
with human life ever again. I pray because the way y'all that y'all have
1:17:50
treated disgusting, disgusting to those families. I love you, I pray for
1:18:03
you. I pray that justice will soon come and prevail. And those are
1:18:12
my final thoughts. So sad oh, y'all. We got through another episode
1:18:24
of Black Girl Interrupted, and I got through with not getting too emotional.
1:18:27
And that's a beautiful fake Cause y'all know I'm the biggest cry baby in the
1:18:31
world. But that's because I'm passionate about the things that I talk about.
1:18:36
So it hits a little close to home. So if I do tend to
1:18:40
cry, hey, it just it is what it is. Y'all just have
1:18:44
to cry with me and and just love me through the camera, through the
1:18:47
comments. Y'all just have to love on me. But I'm very passionate about
1:18:51
what I do and the topics that I talk about. So for the upcoming
1:18:56
episode, So for Thursday's episode, it's been a change. Initially, I
1:19:02
was gonna talk about discipline and these disrespectful children, but I want to talk
1:19:10
about the brick Lady. I want to circle back to that story because a
1:19:15
few months ago we did we covered I covered the story of the young lady
1:19:18
here in Houston. That was allegedly hit in the face with a brick for
1:19:24
not wanting to give her phone number to a guy. Well, some new
1:19:29
developments have come about and it's come to pass that this girl was lying.
1:19:34
So we're gonna get into that on Thursday. Baby, we is gonna get
1:19:36
into the bag on that one, because people was tussling with me in the
1:19:42
comments when I said her story didn't make sense, that the math wasn't math,
1:19:45
and that she was lying. So I'm gonna bring you to updates on
1:19:49
that. Were getting into that on Thursday night, BABD, same time,
1:19:55
same Please. Let me tell you thank y'all for tuning in to another episod
1:20:00
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1:20:20
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1:20:25
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1:21:04
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1:21:47
helpful conversations again because I'm all about healing and help pushing us a step forward.
1:21:55
So again, any collaborations the email us down at the bottom Black Girl
1:22:00
Interrupted Podcast at gmail dot com. Also again for Thursday, we're gonna be
1:22:06
talking about Rhoda Osman aka brick Lady. Uh. I'm bringing y'all the updates
1:22:13
on that because charges have been filed against her here in Houston felony M.
1:22:18
We're definitely getting into it. And on that note, I'm gonna go ahead
1:22:23
and bring it to a close. I love you, guys, love love,
1:22:26
love again. Thank you so much for tuning in. I hope everyone
1:22:30
has a great rest of the night. And don't forget I will see you
1:22:32
on Thursday. Oh yeah, I'm so sorry. The days have changed.
1:22:36
I am back. I am now back on Tuesdays and Thursdays eight thirty pm
1:22:42
Central Time, nine thirty Eastern time. So get into it with your girl
1:22:45
like baby like, we're gonna have some fun. We're gonna have a ball,
1:22:47
We're gonna we're gonna we're gonna really get into it. I promise we
1:22:50
were really getting into it, especially for Black History months. I can't wait
1:22:55
for those episodes. And again, y'all, I love y'all. Again.
1:23:00
I hope everyone has a great rest of the night. Again, Tomorrow is
1:23:03
Wednesday, y'all. We are humpy and we're just a few days away from
1:23:08
the weekend. So if you can push through again for mental health, if
1:23:14
you are struggling, let me go ahead and post this back up. Give
1:23:16
me just one moment. If you are someone you know is suffering from mental
1:23:23
illness, if you just just feel like you can't go on, please text.
1:23:30
I'm not not text. Please call the number that's on your screen one
1:23:33
eight hundred twenty seven three talk or one eight hundred two seven three eight two
1:23:39
five five. That is a suicide prevention lifeline. If you are in a
1:23:43
crisis, please call that number. If not, please call nine one one.
1:23:47
Uh. Do not let struggle, Do not struggle. I'm so sorry.
1:23:54
Do not sit alone, You're not by yourself, and just know I'm
1:23:59
I'm always here, always here. So again, thank y'all for tuning in.
1:24:02
I love y'all, and I will see y'all Thursday night, same time,
1:24:05
same place. Hello,