she didn t like to wear her hearing aids, so there s a chance she didn t hear the phone. i went to the house twice and did not find her there, and i immediately went down to the scene at the tops market. were you told by police what had happened to her there? eventually, i was. knowing most of the responders in the city, having worked with them over my career, i was able to talk to them. i got some escorts and walked the perimeter of the scene looking for her car in the parking lot. and once we knew the car was there, it was just a matter of finding out where she was. we had hoped against hope that she was one of the witnesses that had been evacuated to police headquarters to be interviewed and debriefed. so, we set about trying to find if she was there. obviously she was not there but had gone into the store. benjamin, i know you re planning legal action on behalf of the whitfield family.
this individual accountable for his hateful act, but we also want to hold those people accountable for get at the root of the hate, all of these websites and these cable news personalities who talk about these race replacement theories and so forth. they may not have pulled the trigger, but they certainly loaded the gun to have this 18-year-old white supremacist go and in his words try to kill as many black people as he could. yeah, you know, mr. whitfield, i wonder, you know, and i apologize for making you talk about this in your grief, with fresh grief at that, but do you who do you hold responsible for this? i mean, i read through this crazy manifesto by this shooter that references that he was, know he was online bored sitting home reading white
interesting that you are considering taking some action in response to the death of your mom. you can describe that or you can have ben describe that. joy, you know, i am so grateful to the whitfield family, darnel, his brother and sisters for saying they are going to use this pain and they are going to use this angler to try to achieve positive change, to give a proper legacy to ruth whitfield. she was a person of love, and she s not going to let this act of hate define her legacy. that s what she instilled in her children, and so we are looking at bringing a lawsuit against the gun manufacturers and holding all of those accountable, joy, who had anything to do with this massacre of black people. you see, joy, we want to hold
a surprise birth dey cake for his 3-year-old son and spoke about ruth whitfield who stopped by the store to pick up a few items and never made it home. join me now is the son of ruthed when i field and ben crump, friend of the whitfield family. thank you both for being here. mr. whitfield, deepest condolences to you, and i just want to let you talk. i want to let you talk about your beloved, beloved loved one who died in that horrible mass shooting. first of all, thank you for having us here tonight. thank you. my mother was a beautiful person. my mother, what i remember most about my mother, what i loved most about her was the way in which she loved. she loved us unconditionbly. my mother was our caretaker. she was an angel. my mother on that saturday