“The County of Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department and the City of Los Angeles Police Department will join forces for a major field search of the greater Lost Hills/Malibu Canyon area on the morning of Saturday, Jan. 9, for the Watts woman who disappeared after being released from the Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station on Sept. 17.”
Today my friend went hiking in Malibu and said she saw a ton of police looking for a missing woman. I hadn’t heard about any recently missing women in the past week or so and just tossed a guess out that it was this chick I’d heard about last year. Like, months ago. Surely they couldn’t have still been searching for her?
Indeed they are. Mitrice Richardson went missing after being released around 1am on September 17th. That’s a long ass time ago. It started when she was at a restaurant in Malibu and could not pay her bill ($89). The employees also reported that she had been behaving strangely. Talking to random customers and such. The cops come, find a small amount of weed in her car, and arrest her.
The stories are conflicting as to the events that followed her arrest. The police say she was offered the chance to stay there until night outside of her cell. She refused and left never to be seen until this day. There have been some sightings of her reported a while ago of her sleeping on someone’s porch but nothing really since then. When she was let go she didn’t have her car as it was left in Malibu. She also didn’t have her I.D, a phone, or any money. Pretty shitty situation.
It was also reported that she suffered from mental health issues. The stories about this case are flying all over the place. Being Black means of course that race is being brought up with the belief that if she were White that more would’ve been done to look for her. The fact that she was in Malibu which isn’t known as the Blackest places in the state. "What the Sheriff's did to my daughter is criminal and it could happen to yours" her father has been quoted as saying. He believes that the arresting officers need to be investigated into his daughter’s disappearance.
This is a fucked up situation all around. But one theme I have noticed from reading about this story on numerous blogs is the race issue. Yes, she is a Black woman. But that should not be the primary focus. What’s important is her being found. The LAPD has turned this into a possible murder investigation. Is she dead? No one knows. And sometimes that’s way worse than knowing. Click here to donate to the family of Mitrice Richardson or to read about her story.
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