Seventy-four days
Wanda Cooper-Jones asked for seventy-four days. Her son, Ahmaud Arbery, was shot on a street near Brunswick, Georgia, on February 23, 2020. The case sat with local district attorneys. No one was charged.
She kept asking. On the phone, at meetings, anywhere there was a camera. Not from a courthouse; for seventy-four days there wasn't one to ask from.
On May 5, a local radio station published a video of the shooting. It went viral. Two days later, the father and son who had chased him were arrested for murder. It took seventy-four days and a recording everyone could see. She had been asking the entire time.
I spent a month reading stories like this one: people who asked out loud, and what the record finally gave up. Hers gave up arrests, then convictions. Recy Taylor's gave up an apology from Alabama, sixty-seven years late, and no trial at all. Some asks get an answer. Some get an admission that is not an answer. Two different things. Telling them apart is the work.
That's the work I do. You carry a story, a family one or a local one or one you were told, and I check it against the record. Not to prove you wrong. To tell you what holds and what doesn't.
The first look is free: in writing, with sources, what can be checked about your story and what can't. If the record gives up nothing, I tell you that too. Full checks after: $5 for short, $25 for deep, agreed before any work starts.
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