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To wonder why this missing girl hasn't been in the news?

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BorisJohnsonsHair · 15/02/2023 21:05

news.sky.com/story/mariama-kallon-police-launch-appeal-to-find-13-year-old-girl-missing-from-home-in-london-12811846

Really hope she's found soon

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skramblin · 16/02/2023 17:49

Two sisters from my area went missing. The police put out a missing persons statement. It was widely shared on social media. Local press picked it up, then regional press, before they were found, with friends, in another part of the city. A few weeks later, the same two sisters went missing again. The police put out a missing person's statement again. People recognised the names and didn't share it quite so much. It was picked up by the local press, but they focussed on the "again" angle with tacit eyerolling. Usually they don't bother the second time, but I think it was more notable because they were two sisters.

The Nicola Bulley case is more newsworthy because she has vanished without trace in relatively unusual circumstances, leaving a young family behind.

user40643 · 16/02/2023 17:59

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To wonder why this missing girl hasn't been in the news?
Nimbostratus100 · 16/02/2023 18:27

skramblin · 16/02/2023 17:49

Two sisters from my area went missing. The police put out a missing persons statement. It was widely shared on social media. Local press picked it up, then regional press, before they were found, with friends, in another part of the city. A few weeks later, the same two sisters went missing again. The police put out a missing person's statement again. People recognised the names and didn't share it quite so much. It was picked up by the local press, but they focussed on the "again" angle with tacit eyerolling. Usually they don't bother the second time, but I think it was more notable because they were two sisters.

The Nicola Bulley case is more newsworthy because she has vanished without trace in relatively unusual circumstances, leaving a young family behind.

I dont think Nicola Bully's case is unusual at all, it just went viral because of internet conspiracy theories. sometimes the most totally random things go viral

NotAnotherBathBomb · 16/02/2023 18:30

user40643 · 16/02/2023 17:18

The overwhelming majority are white

Because the majority of the UK are white.

'Black people accounted for 14% of all cases in England and Wales during the last financial year, despite representing only 3% of the population'

Boom.

Btjdkfnn · 21/02/2023 23:27

Thankfully Mariama has been found safely now. It's astonishing that on a thread claiming to care about Mariama's welfare that nobody has thought to come back and post that she's been found OK.

But Nicola has been found dead.

Reporting was nothing to do with N being white and M being black. It was to do with the circumstances under which they went missing. And it has now been proven correct for the police/reporters to be more concerned about Nicola than Mariama.

southwarknews.co.uk/news/missing-people/missing-thirteen-year-old-mariama-kallon-found-eleven-days-after-being-reported-missing-from-walworth/

user40643 · 21/02/2023 23:55

Racism doesn't play a part ✔️ so the white privilege continues

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