A church adorned with balloons spelling out the name of
25 year old Tranquilo Robinson, a name that weighs
heavy on the hearts of community members in Charlot
North Carolina This weekend, the city reeling in pain
over the mysterious and tragic death of one of its own
held a rally. I never thought in my wildest dreams th
I'd be doing, standing here, doing this right here. I'm
just normal man. You know, I just mind my own business.
All this right here. It's just new to me. Very new. So
she gone, I'm her dad. So now I got to stand for her. I
got to be her voice in october. The 25 year old went t
cabo Mexico with six friends. Everyone returned home
but her at first report the young woman died from
alcohol poisoning. But social media clips showing
something different. In an interview with Newsy Bernard
Robinson spoke of the difficulty watching the video.
saw it, I couldn't see it but a few seconds and I saw
that she was there naked man. You know, I just broke
down and started crying and the I seen the guys in the
room. Really, really did. You know that That's that's
very degrading. I just know they went to school whether
I said ain't no, none of the death certificate lists
Robinson's cause of death as severe spinal cord injury
and atlas looks ation abroad alcohol was not listed.
Mexican officials saying this was a direct attack on
Robinson and are now investigating this case as
femicide, a hate crime internationally even thou
their child is still old enough to take care of
yourself and do their own thing, but still at the same
time, they still got to, you know, make sure who their
friends they keep around the family left with shared
memories with her community in charlotte, charlotte is
going to hold this family down because quella is a
native of charlotte north Carolina Mario black, who is
the founder of Million Youth March of charlotte says
the community is looking for ways to support the family.
So I just hope that this will be the reboost of energy
that the community needs to be able to support the
family to keep, keep pushing until justice is served a
go fund me page set up following Robinson's death h
nearly hit its $400,000 goal. Large donations pouring
in from celebrities like NBA, Star Kyrie Irving and
smaller donations from thousands around the world.
Daddy stood there and cried lik a baby and I sit there
and say, baby, daddy will give you justice, I will not
let you die in vain. It's just so difficult to watch
and Stephen, you mentioned to me that her mother didn't
want to really speak on camera, which is understanda
Why do you think this case is getting so much attenti
right now Yeah, the mother has been outspoken about
this particular case, but at this point, she's
exhausted with all the media, as you can imagine. But
her father spoke to us and he was really interested in
helping us figure out what he wants from the justice
community. He wants all of the people on that trip
extradited back to Mexico and that's been consistent
with the family's message. But this particular case has
garnered a lot of support because the sheer mystery of
it, a college student goes on a birthday trip to cabo
Mexico and then comes back dead and then those friends
who were on the trip with her all on the run, it's so
the sure mystery of this case has garnered a lot of
attention and then second the family a credits a lot of
this to black twitter, black twitter and black social
media really bolstering the story and doing many things
to help push the story to those headlines that we see
today and I think you know this is also highlighting
the glaring evidence that black homicides have gone up
about 33% particularly with bla women and so this is
one of those things that shows people and shows the
nation that there needs to be a lot more attention that
is going into the cases like this. Absolutely, we
thank you so much for bringing us the story today,
Stephen, we appreciate it. Absolutely, thank you