Source: Hoover Police Department / Hoover PD
Carlee Russell‘s alleged abduction case was the main character on social media yesterday and got significant coverage in the mainstream media as well but we still don’t have real answers, and we have lots of very real questions.
BOSSIP reported in detail about the press conference held by Hoover Police Chief Nicholas C. Derzis where he laid out all of the facts, not rumor or innuendo, that have been gathered thus far based on their investigation. Those facts, while not 100% conclusive, point the idea that this whole thing might, repeat might, be an elaborate hoax as several of the details just don’t make sense to reasonable people.
A great many people were truly concerned about the missing Black woman, especially because oftentimes that demographic of person isn’t always treated as important by law enforcement or the community at large when they are thought to be victims of foul play. One of those concerned parties was Angela Harris, the mother of a kidnapped and murdered 19-year-old named Aniah Blanchard who was also from Alabama. Blanchard was taken and killed back in 2019 by Ibraheem Yazeed and upon hearing the news of Carless’s story, her mother could not sit idly by and do nothing.
Harris took to Tik Tok yesterday to talk about her feelings after helping to spearhead the rescue effort to bring Carlee back home.
It goes without saying that there will be a lot of jokes, finger-pointing, eye-rolling, and side-eyeing following a situation like this but it is important to remember that people do get kidnapped and everybody isn’t lying. So, the next time a story like this comes up, don’t be so quick to dismiss it as hijinks. Better to be wrong trying to help someone than to be wrong in not believing someone who is being victimized. It costs you nothing to care, it could cost a life not to.
