What’s up?
It’s Sussan Mourad here with Clevver News and rumors are being shut down that the Los
Angeles Sheriff's Department is conducting a criminal investigation into Shane Dawson’s
past allegations.
There’s a lot to unpack here you guys and we are going to be talking about some serious
topics, so please only continue watching if you feel comfortable doing so.
We also linked some resources down in the description below in case you or anyone you
know needs them.
Alright, so this whole thing is really messy so we’re going to break down everything
we know so far for you guys.
Earlier this week, rumors started swirling around that Shane Dawson was allegedly being
investigated by the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department after YouTuber Sanders Kennedy
uploaded a video called “EXCLUSIVE: LA Sheriff's Dept.
Investigating Shane Dawson; Survivors Urged To Come Forward.”
Sanders’ video came shortly after Shane Dawson was called out for joking about pedophilia
by fans and celebs, like Jaden Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, after an inappropriate video
involving 11 year old Willow Smith surfaced.
If you want more on that story, we’ve linked another Clevver video above for you.
In Sanders’ video he claims that Shane is allegedly being investigated by the Sheriff’s
department for his past actions, both that have been posted online and that have been
sent to them privately.
“The title of this video is not click bait.
Shane Dawson is really being investigated by the LA Sheriff’s Department.”
Sanders made it known that he himself contacted the Sheriff’s department asking if they
were investigating Shane and he claims they exclusively informed him they are looking
into this case.
“The LA Sheriff’s Department is definitely seeing what’s being put out there because
they exclusively informed me that there is an investigation going on with Shane Dawson
and the allegations that’s been brought to them.”
Sanders also then said this:
“Strongly, strongly, strongly, urge any victims... or alleged survivors of Shane Dawson
to come forward, for what he did to you allegedly or any kind of involvement you had with Shane
Dawson that made you feel very uncomfortable.”
Sanders went on to say that he’s been getting countless DMs and messages about Shane across
his social platforms and he believes the Sheriffs have been too.
“I’m willing to bet that the Sheriff’s department has seen it now once again they
are urging the victims and I hate that word, slash survivors to come forward to them.”
But since Sanders, who has posted about Shane a lot over the past few weeks, posted his
video, he’s faced serious backlash from fans saying that he was posting it for his
own gain and views.
The video currently has over 286,000 views and counting and more dislikes than likes.
This person commented on Sander’s video saying quote, “I’ve had to unsubscribe
Sanders, sorry.
This video doesn’t sit right with me.
Personally it feels like you’re doing this for your own gain, to be the first drama channel
to have ‘exclusive tea’.
This isn’t ‘tea’.”
Another person wrote quote, “i’m not saying what shane did was okay at all because it
wasn’t, but why would a cop tell a tea channel about an investigation lol”
This viewer commented saying quote, “Something just isn’t right about this person.. the
way he’s talking about things like he has an insider scoop to the police/sheriff.. the
way he’s encouraging potential victims to contact him.. this is all very strange”
And this person chimed in saying “You should take this down because you're probably going
to get sued buddy.
Pathetic what some people will do for views.”
And fellow youtuber Keemstar caught wind of all this drama and actually spoke to Shane
himself.
Prior to speaking to Shane though, Keemstar also made his own YouTube video about the
allegations Sanders Kennedy was making.
“This video does have a bunch of dislikes on it.
People are doubting whether or not this is true whether or not this is real, but I have
to say this, Sanders Kennedy has come out with a lot of Shane Dawson information that’s
turned out to be correct.”
Keemstar said that he had texted Shane directly to find out if he knows anything about an
investigation and Keemstar said that Shane had not responded to his text.
But after that video, Shane did respond to Keemstar’s text and Keemstar tweeted saying
quote, “Shane Dawson just texted me in reference to Sanders claiming there is a criminal Investigation
on Shane.”
And he also shared a screenshot of his alleged text conversation with Shane where Shane says
quote “My attorney confirmed with the LA Sheriff's Office today that there is no open
investigation.”
And fans have been responding to Keemstar saying that they too have called the Sheriff’s
department about this case to debunk Sanders’ video.
This person tweeted saying quote, “many of us called the past day and no one had anything
about an open case or police reports filed on shane dawson in los angeles county.
super easy to fact-check that so i’m still so confused on why lie about it”
And this Twitter user wrote quote, “I dont like what Shane did, but what Sanders is doing
is lawsuit worthy.
I hope Shane does something legally about this.”
Sanders has since spoken out again in another YouTube video saying that he stands by his
original video about Shane being investigated by the Sheriff’s department.
“I wanted to address the video that I posted on Tuesday and the first thing I want to say
is that I stand behind my video that I posted.”
In this video Sanders went on to share an alleged recorded phone conversation with a
Sergeant.
He didn’t note whether or not he had permission to record this phone call.
Sanders then played the clip of the phone call
“Right now it’s just a suspicious circumstances investigation.
So we don’t have enough to call it a crime, there’s a lot of things we have to look
through first.
And we’d also need victims.”
Sanders went on to say QUOTE, “right now I want to clarify I never said it was a criminal
investigation.”
So like we said before, this whole thing is really messy, but based on Shanes text to
Keemstar and Sanders’ latest video, it seems there is currently no criminal investigation
against Shane Daweson.
We will keep you updated should anything else get reported on this.
If you want more on Shane Dawson, click right over here for another Clevver News video.
And let us know down in the comments below what you think about all of this.
I’m your host Sussan Mourad, bye guys!