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untanglingwebs
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Every national station is carrying stories about the missing UVA student. She is shown appearing disoriented and possibly intoxicated as she wanders the streets and was refused entrance into one bar.

Video showed a white male wearing shorts following her. Yet e explained to cops how he hid and then followed her out of concern until he saw her with a mysterious bald black man with a goatee. Suddenly a black male, who doesn't fit the description, becomes the primary suspect because he was seen with her in a bar.

How did this happen? There must be some evidence the public is not aware of.


Then there is the story of the 8 yr old black girl murdered in Alabama. The Governor and his wife put up a reward, but then stated he didn't know if drugs or other problems involved in the home.

A white girl, obviously under some influence, is a good girl, but there must be some bad influence in the black girl's family.
Post Wed Sep 24, 2014 9:07 am 
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ABC 13 Alabama


Governor's office offering reward in child killing case

Posted: Sep 19, 2014 10:46 PM EDT


Updated: Sep 19, 2014 10:46 PM EDT



By Thomas Lower - bio | email


Gov. Robert Bentley says there's a $5,000 reward for information that leads to a suspect's arrest and conviction in an eight-year-old girl's death.

Hiawayi Robinson was reported missing Tuesday, and her body was found on Thursday.

Bentley says in a written statement released Friday that he and his wife were heartbroken by Robinson's death. He says state law enforcement agencies have assisted police in the girl's hometown of Prichard, and 10 State Bureau of Investigation agents will remain until an arrest is made.

State Sen. Vivian Davis Figures criticized the governor earlier Friday, demanding a public apology for saying that family difficulties, drugs or alcohol could be related when asked about the girl's death on Thursday.
Post Wed Sep 24, 2014 9:10 am 
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Suspect In UVa. Student Disappearance Blames Mysterious Black Man

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Sep 19, 2014

By NewsOne Staff
NewsOne for Black America


University of Virginia student Hannah Graham has been missing since Saturday. Graham’s family and police are, of course, frantic to find the 18-year-old sophomore. A break came in the investigation into her disappearance when surveillance video surfaced that appears to show a man following Graham the night she disappeared.

That man, who has yet to be named by police, is now a person of interest in the case. His explanation for the suspicious behavior: he was following Graham out of concern, but he left when he saw a black man approach and put his arm around her. Fox8 out of Charlottesville reported:


Wednesday evening Capt. Gary Pleasants told CBS 6 that they examined two new videos, which showed an unidentified white male following Graham.

The first video was taken at 1:06 a.m. from Sal’s Pizza, located at 221 E. Main St. It shows a white male walking into the cameras view, he looks over his shoulder, then steps into a doorway and Graham walks past him, police said.


After she passes, the male starts walking behind her. The second video picks up at 1:08 a.m., from a camera at Tuel’s Jewelers located at 319 E. Main St. The video shows Graham walking with the same white male some distance behind her, Pleasants said.

Pleasants then said that the man in the video came to the police station, and said he had also left his story on the tip line.

He told police that he was walking with her to make sure she was okay, because she seemed physically distressed and he “wanted to make sure she got safely wherever she was going.”

The man told police that he saw a black man approach Hannah, and that man put his arm around her. The unidentified man told police she didn’t react, and seemed to know him. Once those two started speaking, he said it appeared the black male was “was either known to Ms. Graham or was trying to help her.”
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September 19, 2014



Black Girls Murdered
(But Do YOU Care?)

Tjhisha Ball and Angelia Magnum were found dead on the side of a Florida road. Jamilah Lemieux wonders when the outrage begins

Jamilah Lemieux
By Jamilah Lemieux Senior Editor


Two teen girls were found dead in Duval County, Florida and now, we wait for answers and the predictable lack of outrage from people who might typically deem a double murder to be cause for such.

According to local ABC affiliate WFST, the bodies of Angelia Mangum, 19, and Tjhisha Ball, 18 were spotted on the side of a road around 1 a.m. yesterday. The bodies were reportedly bound with zip ties, naked and on top of one another.

The few reports about the story have cited the women’s criminal records (neither of which are worth mentioning here). Ball’s sister, Crystal Moore told ABC Action News that the two women were close friends and had been working in the Jacksonville area as exotic dancers.

Heartbreakingly, Ball’s mother Jerlean Moore told ABC "I feel like sometimes that I failed. What could I have done? What could I have taught her better?”

It isn’t unreasonable to expect for a grieving family to wish that their dead loved one hadn’t worked in the sex industry, one where women are often subject to increased abuse and harassment at the hands of clients, employers and law enforcement alike. Thus, there should be no judgment from any of us about Ball’s lament about her daughter’s work. But what I fear will happen here is a general sentiment among media makers and the public that because these women were sex workers, that their deaths are not cause for outrage and fear.

Someone(s) apparently murdered two women and left their bodies on the side of the road for the world to see. We shouldn’t need for them to have been “good girls”—or White girls, or, perhaps good White girls—for this to be cause for national concern. There is a killer, or killers, on the loose.

There is no shame in what those women allegedly did for a living. The shame is the way our society treats the ‘bad girls,’ and that we do not respect their humanity even in death. We could discuss the lack of education and career opportunities that leads young women to the pole, but we’d be dismissing the fact that many exotic dancers choose that path because that is what they want to do. Who are we to judge? Especially considering how many of us are cogs in corporate wheels that hurt people in ways that a g-string never will.

I hope that my media colleagues, fellow feminists, members of local law enforcement and any human being with a shred of decency will treat the story of Angelia Mangum and Tjhisha Ball’s killing with the compassion and urgency that they deserve. Sadly, history has given me little reason to expect that to be the case.

Anyone with information about this case should contact the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office at 904-630-0500 or email JSOCrimeTips@jaxsheriff.org. Anonymous tips can


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Post Wed Sep 24, 2014 9:26 am 
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El Supremo

Two women found dead in Jacksonville were from Tampa area

Keeley SheehanKeeley Sheehan, Times Staff Writer

Thursday, September 18, 2014 2:46pm

Two Tampa teens found dead, tied together


TAMPA — Passers-by discovered the bodies of two young women from Hillsborough County along a wooded road early Thursday in Jacksonville.


No suspect named yet in murders of Tampa women found in Jacksonville


Angelia Ella Mangum, 19, and Tjhisha Monique Ball, 18, were murdered, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.

Authorities did not disclose how or when they were killed, but ordered autopsies. They also did not name a suspect or announce an arrest in the case.

Ball's mother, Jerlean Moore, 55, of Tampa said her daughter began working as a dancer a few years ago. She had attended the PACE Center for Girls in Tampa before dropping out at age 16.

Ball had been going back and forth from Tampa to Jacksonville for the past 2 1/2 years, Moore said.

She said her daughter and Mangum were close friends, calling them "two peas in a pod." Mangum was from New Tampa and had been in foster care as a child, Moore said.

Attempts to reach Mangum's relatives Thursday for comment were unsuccessful.

Moore had met some of Ball's friends from Jacksonville, but remained worried about her.

"You still worry because of the style of work they do," she said. "You still worry because it's someone you love."

Her daughter was outgoing and adventurous, Moore said. A tomboy as a child, her dresses were always covered in mud. She took more of an interest in clothes as she got older, and had several tattoos, some bearing family members' names, Moore said.

Moore said she didn't know of her daughter having problems with anyone in Jacksonville.

Tampa police arrived at Moore's door about 11 a.m. Thursday to deliver news of the death, and she soon spoke to Jacksonville detectives on the phone, she said.

Friends and family filled Moore's home and front yard Thursday evening. They came to hug her as she sat on a plastic lawn chair by the front door.

"People grieve in different ways. I know later on, I hurt so deeply," she said, remarking that she's gotten used to seeing other people's tragedies on the news. "Now the shoe is on me."

The women's bodies were found early Thursday along Sisson Drive in North Jacksonville, which is east of Interstate 95 and west of U.S. 17.

"At first I thought it was one, and then I did a U-turn to see if it was a dead animal," witness Jason Brown told Jacksonville television station WFOX-TV Ch. 30. "That's when we saw that it was one laying on top of another that looked like they were tossed from the overpass."

Another Jacksonville television station, WTLV-TV Ch. 12, reported that a witness told its reporter she saw the women naked and tied up in a pool of blood.

Authorities there declined to confirm the account, citing the ongoing murder investigation.

State records show that both women had criminal records.

Ball was arrested last year in Jacksonville on a felony cocaine charge, records show, but the charge was dropped. In April, she was arrested in Tampa by the Florida Highway Patrol on a misdemeanor charge of driving without a valid license.

The records also show that Mangum was arrested twice as a juvenile on burglary and larceny charges in Hillsborough County. More recently, she last year faced a charge of failing to appear in Hillsborough court on a burglary charge.

Anyone with information about crime was asked to call the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.

Times researcher John Martin contributed to this report. Contact Keeley Sheehan at ksheehan@tampabay.com or (813) 226-3368. Follow @keeleymsheehan.


The bodies of the teens were identified as Tjhisha Monique Ball, 18, left, and Angelia Ella Mangum, 19.
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untanglingwebs
El Supremo

Women are at greater risk for violence when they lead a risky lifestyle. The UVA student was obviously under the influence of something. She was lost and seen running with no one after her. The media coverage I stunning. The man under suspicion for her abduction was celebrating his promotion at the hospital he worked at. Her crime is now being linked to several disappearances in the area over years.

The two Florida girls were exotic dancers, probably a risky profession. They were pretty girls, and yet the Tampa Times chose to depict them in some unflattering booking photos. Instead of focusing on any similar crimes they focused on juvenile records and dismissed cases. Was the message these girls deserved their fate or their murders were not worthy of pursuing.

We saw the same thing happen in Ferguson with the Michael Brown shooting. The media continues to try to portray him as a person whose life is meaningless.
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Missing white woman syndrome

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
part of a series on Discrimination


Missing white woman syndrome (MWWS) is a phrase used by social scientists to describe the extensive media coverage, especially in television, of missing person cases that involve young, white, upper-middle-class women or girls.[1] Sociologists define the media phenomenon as the undue focus on upper-middle-class white women who disappear, with the disproportionate degree of coverage they receive being compared to cases concerning missing women of other ethnicities and social classes, or with missing males of all social classes and ethnicities.[2][3] The PBS news anchor Gwen Ifill is said to be the originator of the phrase.[3] Although the term was coined to describe disproportionate coverage of missing person cases, it is sometimes used to describe the disparity in news coverage of other violent crimes. The concept is similar to hierarchy of death, in which certain types of deaths garner more news coverage than others.


media coverage
United States
With regard to missing children, statistical research which compares national media reports with FBI data shows that there is marked under-representation of African American children in media reports relative to non-African American children. A subsequent study found that girls from minority groups were the most under-represented in these missing-children news reports by a very large margin.[4]

When the disappearances of Laci Peterson and Natalee Holloway became sensational news stories, a pregnant black/Hispanic woman named LaToyia Figueroa disappeared from Philadelphia three years later and attracted less national attention, despite efforts by her family to enlist the media in helping to find her (Figueroa was found murdered).[5] One observer also saw contrasts between the attention received by Peterson and Evelyn Hernandez, who was nine months pregnant when she disappeared in 2002.[6]

Kym Pasqualini, president of the National Center for Missing Adults, observed that media outlets tend to focus on "damsels in distress" – typically, affluent young white women and teenagers.[7]

Dr. Cory L. Armstrong pointed out in the Washington Post that "the pattern of choosing only young, white, middle-class women for the full damsel treatment says a lot about a nation that likes to believe it has consigned race and class to irrelevance".[3]
Post Wed Sep 24, 2014 10:20 am 
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El Supremo

Cop Block

If You Were Gunned Down By Police, What Photo Would the MSM Use to Portray You?

This photoset should open your eyes to how media manipulates your emotions to sell their product. Kinda sad but definitely accurate.
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If You Were Gunned Down By Police, What Photo Would the MSM Use to Portray You


If you were killed, what photo would the media use in their stories? That’s the question that the #iftheygunnedmedown hashtag asks on social media as...


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untanglingwebs
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Missing Warren woman, 22, found dead, police say


Ursula Watson, Karen Bouffard, and Steve Pardo, The Detroit News 6:49 a.m. EDT September 20, 2014

The storage lot where Theresa DeKeyzer's body was discovered Friday in a concrete-capped barrel was rented by a man nine days after the Warren woman disappeared.

Doris Temple, manager of Travel Trailer Storage on Ann Arbor Road in Plymouth Township, wouldn't identify the man who rented the space, citing privacy.

"It was an enclosed trailer, it had no windows, no nothing, just the back opens, that's it," Temple told The Detroit News. "Sixteen feet long, maybe."

DeKeyzer was last seen on June 16 when her boyfriend, Scott Wobbe, 37, said he dropped her off four blocks from her home near Nine Mile and Van Dyke. Wobbe is the last person to see her alive, police say.

Since her disappearance, DeKeyzer hadn't used her cellphone, accessed her bank account or picked up her paycheck.

In her bedroom on Lozier, police said, DeKeyzer had left her cellphone charger plugged in near her bed, and a half-finished cigarette was left in an ashtray. She also left behind her medical marijuana card, prescribed for depression/anxiety.

"I was there when the Warren detective came ... I had to show them which unit it was," Temple said late Friday. "It's not something that happens every day. We've had the lots for over 30 years."

Temple said she was not present when Warren police, along with detectives from Westland and Plymouth Township, and bomb squad personnel from the Michigan State Police, searched the trailer. An X-ray showed what were believed to be human remains inside a 55-gallon drum filled with sand and capped with concrete.

The 22-year-old, missing since June 16, was identified based on tattoos, clothing and jewelry as pictured in crime scene photos from a domestic assault June 15 — the day before she disappeared near the intersection of Lozier and Nine Mile in Warren.

Authorities were called to DeKeyser's home when, according to police records, Wobbe, in a drunken rage, dragged her by her shirt out of his car and punched her in the face.

'A lot of love'

Melody Baetens, a cousin of Dekeyzer, said the family is heartbroken, but will recover.

"My heart breaks for my cousins and my aunt," said Baetens, a Detroit News staff writer. "They have a lot of family support and they're going to get through it.

"The Dekeyzers have been through a lot these last few years, and they don't deserve this. But there's a lot of love in this family, and we're all here for them."


dekeyzerfamily
Molly Caporale, Marie DeKeyzer, and Leah DeKeyzer talk about the disappearance of family member, Theresa DeKeyzer, age 22. (Photo: Jose Juarez , Special to Detroit News )


Formal identification today

Mary Mazur, spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office, said positive identification of the body is expected to happen Saturday, when forensic dentists will compare the deceased's teeth to DeKeyzer's dental records.

"Until we can confirm this, and it is a record of formal identification, I cannot say it's her," Mazur said late Friday. "It's one of these sad situations that is just unfortunate."

Warren police confirmed Friday afternoon the body has been "tentatively" identified as DeKeyzer.

In a Sept. 4 article, Detroit News columnist Marney Rich Keenan wrote about DeKeyzer's disappearance. Following that report, Warren police said they received two tips that led investigators to the storage lot, police said Friday.

In a Facebook post Friday, DeKeyzer's family confirmed she was found dead and credited the Sept. 4 News column for leading to the discovery.

"We just received confirmation that Theresa has been found," the young woman's family posted. "This was a direct result of the article in the Detroit News. We have suffered a terrible loss and we appreciate all of the love, prayers, and support during this time. We ask that the media please respect our privacy and let us grieve in peace."

On July 2, Wobbe was arrested for violating probation in the alleged assault of DeKeyzer.

The probation stemmed from a conviction in February for aggravated assault and drug charges that occurred in Midland County.

On July 3, Warren police searched Wobbe's Westland home but found no evidence he had harmed his girlfriend. Police found illegal drugs, and Wobbe has been housed in the Midland County Jail facing drug charges.

kbouffard@detroitnews.com

(313) 222-2661
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The Warren girl was missing far longer than the UVA girl, yet got far less media coverage. There were no thousands of people searching for her. She was of a lower societal level and obviously the media did not deem her disappearance as valuable as that of Hannah Graham. Her death is just as sad.
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The Chicago Reporter / By Ava Thompson Greenwell

You Probably Haven't Heard of These Serial Killer Victims -- It's Probably Because They Are Not White

The media continue to ignore black victims.


October 30, 2014 |


Afrikka Hardy’s life probably wouldn’t have made national news if her suspected killer had not gone to police and allegedly confessed.

The 19-year-old’s story was overshadowed by his. It’s common with many female victims of color. Class can be a factor too.

Police say Darren Vann is responsible for six other killings in the Hammond, Ind., area. Relatives of two African-American female victims say they reported their loved ones missing. However, their disappearances never gained national prominence like that of Hannah Graham.

As expected, the national media reported ad nauseam about Graham, an 18-year-old University of Virginia student whose remains were identified on Saturday after an aggressive police search. This coverage likely created more pressure to find her body.

What will it take for African-American female crime victims to get the national news coverage they deserve? Perhaps more African-American women journalism managers are needed.

Every day, news editors make decisions about whose lives warrant attention. At the national level at least, it seems young white women’s lives are more important than everyone else’s.

In true Fannie Lou Hamer style, I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

This disparate treatment – missing white woman syndrome – must cease. National news decision makers need to be more deliberate about bringing racial, gender and socioeconomic equity to their coverage of missing persons.

Media attention can produce legitimate leads to find missing people. The more publicity a case generates, the harder police and community volunteers work to find the perpetrator. The more intense the search, the more news media gatekeepers pay attention. The two feed off of each other.

My research shows black women television news managers use their influence to raise the importance of black women’s lives. One study participant told me she aired a story about a young African-American teenager whose family had reported her missing to police even though her white male colleague tried to dissuade her, saying the teen was “probably a runaway.”

Black women journalists have a history of giving attention to their own when no one else will.

In 1892, publisher Ida B. Wells was among the first to write about black women being raped by white men. Reporter Marvel Cooke worked undercover in the 1950s to report on the economic and sexual exploitation of black women domestics. Former WMAQ-TV investigative reporter Renee Ferguson won the Alfred I. du Pont award for her 1998 report on black women who were disproportionately profiled at O’Hare airport as suspected drug couriers.

This under appreciation for black women as victims extends to those doing the reporting as well. The situation became so egregious for one African-American woman journalist that she quit and recently went public with her newsroom experiences. According to Alexa Harris, Ph.D., and co-author of "Black Women and Popular Culture: The Conversation Continues," black women are using the Internet to create more accurate images of themselves. She says even black celebrity gossipWeb sites now post stories of black women who go missing.

Harris says even when stories about missing women of color make the news they are often framed more negatively as if the women are complicit in their victimization. Police have released information about Afrikka Hardy that implied she was a prostitute. Hannah Graham, on the other hand, was portrayed as an innocent victim even though initial eyewitness reports implied that she might have been intoxicated although she was underage.

Whatever activity either woman was engaged in before she was killed, neither deserved to die and both have relatives who loved and cared for them. I’d like to think news managers of any race, gender or socioeconomic background could grasp these parallels. But I am not convinced.

So rather than just being sick and tired, I plan to re-double my efforts with my students by emphasizing this disparity. Regardless of their backgrounds, future journalists must know this history and be bold enough to change it. Biases based on race, gender or class have no place in balanced journalism.

Until more inclusive thinking reigns at the top, we will have to depend more on the black women who are news gatekeepers to use their power for fairer coverage. I know it is an extra burden because I feel it, too. After all, I am writing this piece because an African-American woman asked me. Until others can see the inequality of being invisible, the burden is ours to bear.



Ava Thompson Greenwell has taught journalism classes at Northwestern University since 1993.
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