Saturday, July 22, 2023

Yeah, Black Twitter Will Roast Her!

If Alabama woman staged an abduction, it will have long lasting impacts on the search for actually missing women of color.

Over 1,000 Black women and children go missing without a national news story. If one does get coverage, it's amplified by Black Twitter.

No one heard of this until the social media lit up.

Carlee Russell is being called a racial hoaxer. Of course, we can't confirm the allegations but the Hoover Police released some damning evidence to show that the missing woman may have staged an abduction.

Some issues I seen through social media.

1. She apparently was fired out the cannon from her job.

2. She and her boyfriend had a fallout. See 7.

3. She posted on social media frustration about life before disappearance.

4. Claims a white toddler on Interstate 459 in Hoover, Alabama. That stretch of freeway has traffic cameras and the state police did not see much on a frequently travel stretch of the road.

5. Claims a white man with orange hair abducted her and she ended up in a empty trailer of a semi-truck. How the hell, did she escape a locked trailer given that temperatures in the south were extreme?

6. Searches of movies like Taken, hotel reservations to Nashville and how to kidnap were search when they retrieved her phone.

7. Boyfriend filed a restraining order against her weeks before the disappearance.

8. Refuses to explain to the police how she ended up in the situation.

9. Social media deactivation or private.

Russell vanished last Thursday night from the side of an interstate after telling 911 she saw a toddler in a diaper on the side of the road. Approximately 49 hours later, she returned home, sparking an outpouring of questions as to where she was and what happened to her.

In an interview, Russell's parents said she was "not in a good state" when she returned home and that they believe she was "fighting for her life" while missing.

Hoover Police Capt. Keith Czeskleba began the Wednesday news conference by stressing that the police work on the case was not finished.

"Keep in mind this is still an ongoing investigation and there may be questions we cannot answer," he said.

Mayor Frank V. Brocato said the vanishing of Russell sent fear and panic throughout the community and the state. Brocato said it is important to share an update so the community can be at ease.

Police Chief Nicholas Derzis said officers have been working since Russell's return to determine where she was.

If this was a hoax, her parents will pay the price as well.

"Due to the public fear this case has generated, we owe it to the public to share what we have learned," he said.

The chief said surveillance video shows Russell concealing a bathrobe and toilet paper when leaving work Thursday night.

He said she ordered food from Tazikis, then bought granola bars and cheese crackers at Target. Derzis said she then spoke to people known to her on her phone as she drove before she called 911 from the interstate and said she saw a child.

Officials then played the 911 call in its entirety.

Derzis reiterated Russell's call was the only report of a child on the side of the road. He added that no children have been reported missing.

He said she travelled 600 yards while she was following the child, on phone with 911.

"Six football fields, to think a toddler could travel six football fields, without getting in the road, without crying, it's very hard to understand," Derzis said.

Derzis said her wig, cellphone and purse were in or near her vehicle when first responders arrived, but the snacks from Target and the items she took from her workplace were not.

For two days, tips poured in but Russell was no where to be found. Until she returned home on foot Saturday night.

According to Derzis, Russell told detectives that when she got out of her vehicle to check on the child, a man came from the woods, forced her into a car, and then she woke up in the trailer of a semi-truck.

She said she was taken by a white man with orange hair with a bald spot, a woman, and said she heard a child crying.

Russell said she was forced to undress and she believes the two took pictures. She said the woman played with her hair and fed her cheese crackers.

She said she was eventually able to escape and ran through some woods before she was able to find her way and walk back home.

Derzis said detectives did not press her after that initial interview so she could have time to rest.

However, Derzis said multiple searches were found on the day of her disappearance and leading up to the disappearance that he feels are relevant. Those searches include: "Do you have to pay for an Amber Alert," "How to take money from a register without being caught," "Birmingham bus station," "Taken (movie about abduction)," and "maximum age for an Amber Alert."

"There are many questions left to be answered, but only Carlee can answer those questions," Derzis said. "I do think it's highly unusual for the day someone gets kidnapped, several hours before that, they're googling the movie Taken, about an abduction, I find that very strange."

The Jussie Smollett fallout led to far right extremists questioning missing people of color and racial violence.

He said law enforcement has not been able to verify the story Russell told them, but he does not believe there is any danger to the community.

Derzis said Russell's parents have told them that their daughter is not ready to speak. He said he thinks they are believing what their daughter tells them.

If this turns out to be a hoax, the woman will be held accountable. It will immediately become a series of attacks on Rev. Al Sharpton, the retired Rev. Jesse Jackson, Barack Obama, Vice President Kamala Harris, Black Lives Matter and the rehashing of Black hoaxers like Jussie Smollett.

Jussie Smollett set back Blacks format least two generations. His racial hoax led to Empire being cancelled, him being permanently blacklisted from the entertainment business, Washed Up 45 and MAGA to doubt there was ever Black victims of racial violence.

What's worse, the far right and Republicans will likely exploit this for political gains.

Missing white woman syndrome has led to a number of tough on crime measures, mainly on the right, that were named for white women who disappeared and were subsequently found harmed. In addition to race and class, factors such as supposed attractiveness, body size and youthfulness function as unfair criteria in the determination of newsworthiness in coverage of missing women. News coverage of missing black women were more likely to focus on the victim's problems, such as abusive boyfriends or a troubled past, while coverage of white women often tend to focus on their roles as mothers or daughters.

Black women and indigenous women are missing far more and yet they never get the attention that white women get. Think about Gabby Petito and the amount of attention she and her killer got.

If the suspect is Black, Muslim or immigrant, the white extremists would often troll Black blogs and social media to throw inappropriate discussions about how white women should avoid relationships with people of color. They would use racial slurs, coded language and concern trolling as an excuse to justify their hatred.

How many women of color are killed by white men?

Do white men often troll social media with "thoughts and prayers" to women of color?

Easy answer......!

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