When Carlee Russell went missing, the case got attention because it was sensational, then because it was a hoax. Here are the missing Black women you should know instead.
just a story. at the bottom of every police report that i have ever seen there is a sentence. there is a sentence that states i swear and attest under penalty of perjury all the information i have given is true. and when you sign that, you re giving a false statement under the law. all right. that is what happened here. aside from all the grief and pain, her family and her boyfriend suffered, police were out there. listen, i have been on plenty of searches, worked plenty of weekends. and to think that this was all a fabrication when there are real women and girls being kidnapped, being raped. being sex trafficked and we spent all that time trying to find carley? let me point out one other thing. she is being handled with kid gloves. does anybody remember the name sherri pa meany, or jussie smollett or jennifer wilbanks they all were arrested. they went to jail. they had to pay huge amounts of
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Advocates for missing persons say Carlee Russell's story should not diminish the reality that more than 30,000 Black people in the U.S. remained missing at the end of 2022.