BLACK WOMEN MATTER!!!- NYPD neglect leads to Lawsuit
May 8, 2008
The last time I read something this disturbing was the Dunbar Village case. In 2003 a young college student was kidnapped off the busy streets of New York, raped repeatedly tortured and beaten to death. She was bright, smart, dependable, conservative, shy and a good student. When she went missing, her mother practically begged NYPD to search, call a press conference, investigate, and look for the daughter. Instead she got this response.
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She’s 21. We’re not supposed to take the report.” She begged them, and (out of pity, she believes) the officers took complaint No. 2003-067-65609
They told her that if she was still missing after the full 24 hours to call the precinct. Instead of help she got the brush off
[Ellie]Carmichael called the precinct. A detective told her: “Lady, why are you calling here? Your daughter is 21. These officers should not have taken the report in the first place.” The next day, April 26, the complaint was marked “closed.”
Romona Moore lost her life at the hands of her psychopathic attackers after 4 days of horrific, disgusting treatment, because the police refused to properly investigate. Even the attackers were wondering what went wrong.
Even the killers were upset by the lack of coverage by the press and TV. It turned out that Pearson and Hendrix were regularly following the news then. A 15-year-old girl who was eventually able to escape after being kidnapped by the duo after they tortured and killed Romona testified at their murder trials that she heard the two complaining about the absence of stories about them.
“They put people on the news for doing stupid s*** like jumping off roofs,” she heard one of the men tell the other. “After this, we better get on the news.”
Juxatpose this situation with the case of , Svetlana Aronov, the white wife of a doctor, went missing on the Upper East Side.
The day after Aronov vanished, police launched a massive search for her and the cocker spaniel, Bim, she had taken for a walk. The NYPD called a press conference, assigned two dozen detectives to the case full-time, and went door to door, passing out flyers with pictures of Aronov and Bim on them. The cops traced the Aronovs’ phone and bank records and analyzed surveillance tape gathered from stores and apartment buildings near her home. A police van emblazoned with the department’s 800 tip-line number drove around her neighborhood, blaring details of her disappearance over a loudspeaker. A letter was sent to rare-books dealers, a business the Aronovs dabbled in. Detectives reportedly even consulted a psychic. A bloodhound was assigned to track Bim’s scent. Eventually, Aronov’s body surfaced in the East River. It was never determined whether she fell, jumped, or was pushed into the water.
What could possible make the police more interested in the well being of one woman over another?? I’ll tell you the difference… race and class! Romona was a young Guyanese, college kid. She wasn’t wealthy, she didn’t have the blond hair, girl next door look that is so treasured in this country. She was not named Natalie, Lacey or Sarah. She was just a black girl gone missing and in the eyes of the police it wasn’t a big deal.
Why am I talking about a five year old case? Because out of this tunnel of terror, lies a bright spot. A racial bias lawsuit has been filed against the police (yeah NYPD getting more bad news) that will challenge the racial biases that effect the way the police investigate missing minorites. This could be a major stepping stone for minority women and children (who are most often assumed to be runaways and therefore aren’t properly searched for) and for missing people advocates.
I have so many problems with this story. First of all the cops are just flat out wrong!! As a 22-year-old, it scares me to think that the pleas to find a decent young black lady can be completely ignored. What happened to protect and serve?? Does that only apply to certain people?
Secondly, What in the HELL! Is going on with our black men?? The guys that did this to her were sick, sadistic and sepia (brown). This was not a stereotypical, loner, horror film loving white male, but two brothers. What makes matters worse is that these fools brought other people in to see what they’d done (while Romona was alive) and none of them called the police, reported them, tried to get her some help, tried to beat the punk men that did this or even tried to talk them into letting her go. Instead they all just saw her and went back to their little pathetic lives. One guy had a whole conversation with her and then went home to his fiancée. Why didn’t he report it? He was “scared.” Have we raised a nation full of uncaring, spineless punks? And what in the world is going on in your world for you to commit this type of crime and then wait for the media coverage???!!!?? What’s going on really? Please tell me now!!! I’m so outraged!!!
Where are our black leaders?? Where were they in 2003 that we didn’t even here about this!? BLACK WOMEN MATTER!!! WE are continually ignored unless of course there’s an opportunity to stick it to the white man. WE need new leaders, new voices, new people who understand the concerns of the real people. WE deserve safety! WE deserve a voice before we commit crimes! That means that we need to stop just protesting jail sentences and start protesting the imbalance in the school systems. Make mental health a necessity and not a luxury. Maybe that could have stopped these two fools from committing this horrible crime in the first place! What’s going on!??? What’s going on with the black man??? Why??!! just why?? I’m truly discouraged, truly.
BLACK WOMEN WE must rise up and make our voices heard. Stop thinking that everyone will help you! Some good black men and women, aren’t even aware of what’s going on, they aren’t even aware of the disparities when it comes to this because they’re relying on the mainstream media to inform them. It’s time to step out of the box and let the gatekeepers have their gate alone! Stepha Henry’s still missing and not getting proper media coverage! We need grassroots widespread effort. That means that the way we supported the Jena 6 is the way we need to get behind missing black women and children, it’s the way we need to be activists in SAVING the lives of our young black males.
The Revolution starts with you! It will not be televised. It will however be blogged, podcasted and youtubed!
Shannon the Tampa Diva
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