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In reply to the discussion: Missing Black Girls Alert!: 2-Teens Missing After “Meeting Man At Mall They Met On Internet” [View all]Raine1967
(11,589 posts)25. KICKING
and I'll be sharing this.
this comment really bothered me:
The families believed the girls went to see a man they met online so police consider them runaways.
That is incredibly fucked up.
Are runaways are somehow considered lessor priorities? It seems that way, considering a woman named Michelle Knight. She was considered a Runaway in Ohio -- the police stopped looking for her.
She wasn't a runaway, it turned out.
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Missing Black Girls Alert!: 2-Teens Missing After “Meeting Man At Mall They Met On Internet” [View all]
redqueen
Aug 2013
OP
I'll send this to the Texans I know. Runaways don't leave their stuff behind. n/t
pnwmom
Aug 2013
#5
K & R. This is very scarey and serious. I can't imagine they'd leave their things in a car either.
freshwest
Aug 2013
#31
Bad things only happen to white girls. Black kids and boys are just runaways, not worthy of amber
justiceischeap
Aug 2013
#36