Shanquella Robinson's death is being investigated as a femicide, a crime that only 16 countries reco

[Eugene]

Source: Insider

Shanquella Robinson's death is being investigated as a femicide, a crime that only 16 countries recognize despite gender-based violence being a global issue

Taiyler Simone Mitchell
Sun, December 4, 2022 at 8:27 PM

The death of 25-year-old Shanquella Robinson on October 29, while she was on vacation with six others in Mexico, stunned the US.

Robinson, who previously attended Winston-Salem State University, an HBCU in North Carolina, was only in San José del Cabo, Mexico, for a day before losing her life.

The people she went to Mexico with, whose names have not officially been released, claimed she died of alcohol poisoning. But, in early November, videos surfaced on the internet of her being beaten while she was naked. A voice in the background can be heard saying, "Quella, can you at least fight back?"

An autopsy released on November 10 revealed that her cause of death was a "severe spinal cord injury and atlas luxation," or, simply put, a broken neck and a cracked spine.

Cries for justice echoed among Black social media users, garnering more attention to her untimely killing.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/shanquella-robinsons-death-being-investigated-002752405.html

[underpants]

1. Someone in her party certainly did this. A sad bad turn of events it looks to me.

She was attacked for who knows why, fell, and broke her neck. She was attacked almost for sure by someone in her party. There has to be accountability but everyone else seems to be keeping quiet.

I saw this story last week and it was pretty clear to me even with the blurred video.

[2naSalit]

2. They all need to be questioned until they tell the truth.

[underpants]

3. I'll admit I'm not sure I could turn on one of my buddies.

Luckily I haven’t faced that. I do have an incident in which I froze when one of my best friends fell off a boat and almost drowned. I froze. Not that I did anything to create that but if he’d died I don’t think they would have said anything. I am forever ashamed of that and set it in my mind that I had to be prepared for something like that.

[2naSalit]

5. That's...

A bit different than watching someone you know beat someone you also know to death and then not say anything about it. Someone will be too haunted by it at some point, someone will talk with enough pressure. And fuck them for lying about it.

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R

[niyad]

6. Heartsick KNR. I am indeed surprised, but relieved, that it is being

investigated as femicide.