INFO TO HELP BRING JUSTICE FOR OLUWATOYIN SALAU
*The GoFundMe started is not legitimate, please be aware it was created by abusive family
**My email is saralarsen1932@gmail.com, please send me an email if there is any information I can add. Comments are also on so you can comment directly on the doc if you have information. In addition, please share this doc, and if you want to share your email on the doc to help others, please do!
Petitions
https://www.change.org/p/tallahassee-police-to-bring-her-justice
Fundraising
Oluwatoyin Salau Freedom Fighters Fund By @justice4blackgirls @lettmeknow, raised $50k! They are creating another fund to sustain other initiatives. If you are a Black girl in need of financial assistance, fill out their application through their Instagram, available tonight.
Tallahassee Government CONTACT INFORMATION
Tallahassee PD
@TallyPD on Twitter
(850)891-5018
City Hall
300 S. Adams St.
Tallahassee, FL 32301
General
email: contactus@talgov.com
(850)891-0000
Governor
Ron DeSantis
governorron.desantis@eog.myflorida.com
(850)487-5018
Senator
Janet Cruz Tallahassee Office
cruz.janet.web@flsenate.gov
(850)487-9337
Mayor
John E. Dailey
email: mayor@talgov.com
(850)891-2000
Mayor’s Staff
Thomas J. Whitley
Chief of Staff
(850)891-2000
Catherine Branch
Director of Internal Affairs
(850)891-2000
Courtney Thomas
Director of External Affairs
(850)891-2000
Commissioners
Elaine W. Bryant
City Commissioner, Seat 1
Angela G. Whitaker (aide to Elaine)
Aide to City Commissioner
(850)891-8503
Jeremy Matlow
Commissioner
(850)891-8188
Ryan Ray
Aide to City Commissioner
(850)294-7164
Curtis Richardson
Commissioner
Contact through aide
aide phone (850)891-8240
Mayor Pro-Tem
Dianne Williams-Cox
(850)891-8502
Towanda Davila-Davis
Aide to Mayor-Pro Tem
(850)891-8502
Here is my email, you may use it as a template, but I recommend writing your own.
“Hello,
I am writing on behalf of those who are angered by the death of Oluwatoyin Salau.
She had been missing for nine days. She gave detailed accounts of her sexual assault and abuse. She posted cries for help, which were not thoroughly investigated until she had been reported missing, and was found dead.
All over the country, black, brown, and indigenous women and girls go missing at higher rates, and rarely get the same coverage/attention as white women and girls.
Could Tallahassee have done more? Could something have been done to help Oluwatoyin, who reported that she called the police, was covered in her abuser’s DNA as she was in his clothes, and that she was without her glasses and could not see.
We failed her. YOU failed her. Now what? You need to put her abusers behind bars and get your act together. This happens all too often, and it needs to stop and be taken seriously. Cases like this are the reason there are so many calls to abolish policing as we know it, and build a network of social services that can help those in need. If there was a system specializing in cases such as this, maybe Oluwatoyin Salau would still be alive today.
I hope you look at your actions and learn from them, they have a profound effect.
(Name here)”
Here is another email sent to me:
"I demand that you bring her abusers to justice: you need to put her killer and her abusers behind bars, and take conscious steps to make sure this doesn't happen again. What ways could your city take the rape and abuse of women, and especially Black women seriously? All over the country and even world there are calls to abolish police, and we are constantly met with the response: "then what would happen to the domestically abused, the raped, the sexually assaulted?" This case is proof that the police are not enough. They do not take Black women's cases seriously until they turn up dead. This is an outrage. I need to see actions being taken. The police department is clearly not fit to handle these cases, I demand to see a conversation started, a system put in place to actually protect victims of abuse. A system that does not make fun of, disbelieve, and ignore the cries for help of the women who come to them, especially the Black women, the Indigenous women, the Brown women. This is a genocide. Allowing Black women to die, to only take them seriously once their bodies are cold is disgusting. This is systemic racism. Take a look at yourself and the way your city takes care of Black women while they are alive. What do you do to uplift and support women of color in your city? Or do you only use their deaths as an argument for why you should have a militarized police force that does nothing to actually save them?"
And here is a script you can use when calling which was sent to me:
“Good afternoon my name is (name) I am calling from (location), in effort to get in contact with (insert official).
I understand you must be receiving hundreds of phone calls from across the country, however I am calling to advocate on behalf of Oluwatoyin Salau, a brilliant 19 year old Black Lives Matter activist who went missing after being sexually assaulted. Oluwatoyin has been found dead, and the Tallahassee PD ultimately failed her.
We demand for the Tallahassee PD to not only conduct a thorough investigation, but to acknowledge the lack of initial support Oluwatoyin received from police for her assault, and homelessness constraints as a black teenager.
For example : How seriously is your city handling youth homelessness, and where exactly are resources being assigned?
Your department has the power to meet these demands. Expect further phone calls from me. Thank you very much.”
Television Stations to Contact for Coverage:
ABC News
(212)456-2828
You can contact us via Signal at (646)256-5457
You can contact us via WhatsApp at (646)256-5457
ABC News Investigative Unit
7 West 66th St.
New York, NY 10023
@abcnews on Instagram and Twitter
CBS News
https://www.cbs.com/showfeedback/
(212)975-7171
CBS News Investigative Unit
514 W 57th Street, 6th Floor Suite 207
New York, NY 10019
Signal Number 212-975-7171
Secure Drop (accessible via Tor Browser) http://k2hzvhcagvmx4us2.onion/
NBC News
Secure Drop https://www.nbcnews.com/securedrop
WhatsApp +1-646-858-9310
Signal +1-646-858-9310
Telegram +1-646-858-9310
Tips
c/o NBC News
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY, 10112
CNN News
tips@cnn.com
ProtonMail address: cnn.tips@protonmail.com
Public key: B4BC 1138 6DD7 BB01 801A 2594 0486 46F7 1E7B 788C
Signal +1 (646) 397-6705
WhatsApp +1 (646) 397-6705
Tips
℅ CNN Investigates
30 Hudson Yards, Fl 21
New York, NY 10001
United States of America
PBS NewsHour
NewsHour Productions
3939 Campbell Avenue
Arlington, VA 22206
What you can do on a National and Local Level:
I am trying to gather resources for anyone, especially POC who need support right now. Let me know if there is anything I should add.
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For Victims of Sexual Assault and Abuse: