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Rumor Mill of Monday, 15 June 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

#JusticeForToyin: 19-year-old BLM protester found dead after revealing she was sexually assaulted

Oluwatoyin Salau (Twitter) Oluwatoyin Salau (Twitter)

A 19-year-old Nigerian-American Black Lives Matter protester, Oluwatoyin Salau, has been found dead hours after tweeting about he being sexually assaulted.

Salau, who was a speaker at Black Lives Matter protests after the death of George Floyd, disappeared on June 6. On social media, people widely spread the news on June 15 that Salau’s body had been found (the term RIP Toyin even trended on Twitter).

Oluwatoyin who is from Tallahassee, Florida, had previously tweeted, “Silence is the best weapon for some but not for me I will not be silenced,” she had written on her Twitter page at that time.

A subsequent tweet about her sexual assault reads: "Anyways I was molested in Tallahassee, Florida by a black man this morning at 5:30 on Richview and Park Ave. The man offered to give me a ride to find someplace to sleep and recollect my belongings from a church I refuged to a couple of days back to escape unjust living conditions," her tweet thread began and added, "He came disguised as a man of God and ended up picking me up from nearby Saxon Street." She also explained, "I trusted the holy spirit to keep me safe." She then said how the man offered to give her a ride back to a church where she had sought "refuge" because of "unjust living conditions."

According to the Tallahassee Police Department, cops were searching for her and she was last seen on June 6. She had even given out the details of his appearance: "Mid 40's lives in a gray painted duplex apartment-style house drives a white clean Silverado Chevrolet truck." In a piece of shocking news, it was reported that she was found dead.