Early Friday morning [March 24], LL Cool J named media powerhouse Harvey Levin among a host of celebrities, which included Eminem, P Diddy and Russell Simmons, as a voice he'd like to see raised in a call for authorities to give focus to the case of missing teens in Washington, D.C. And by Friday afternoon, Levin complied, taking to his TMZ platform to give a statement demanding that law enforcement act promptly in getting to the bottom of the case.
"There has got to be an enormous investigation that has to start today," said Levin. He gave a bit of background into his experience with having observed and worked closely with similar scenarios by which the disappearance of women was overlooked, as was the case when he was a reporter covering the Hillside Strangler case in Los Angeles 40 years ago. Levin asked that the dozen plus girls who've gone missing in D.C. not be simply glanced over as a case of runaway teens, stating, "Women at that number, don't go missing in this short period of time. It is a really desperate situation, and we need to act now to make sure that we are not repeating some of the problems and mistakes of the past."
Attention to the case has picked up steam with each passing day, due in part to how vocal such celebrities as D.L. Hughley, Meek Mill, Nicki Minaj, Wale, and T.I. have been on the subject. Meanwhile, on capital hill, Black lawmakers have been pressing for more focus to be given to the matter and drawn away from the consistent order of the day laid out by mainstream news organizations, which prioritize speculation over how involved Russia was in November's Presidential election. Meek made it a point to put the press on blast over their having avoided the alarming story, posting a message to Instagram earlier in the week that read: "America's media is getting out of hand with the disrespect to the lack of coverage of our people and it's becoming too blatant!!
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