What my 20 year old BLACK goddaughter heard out of the police officer's mouth as he searched for HER. She had been threatened and had run into the woods for safety in the wilds of Springfield, Tennessee. She didn't come out of the woods even though she heard them. "That's Klan country mama; I was scared."
She had been missing almost 24 hours. No shoes, purse, phone, or jacket. She left it all to get away. She stayed in the woods until she fell asleep and they found her. Scratched. Bitten. Swollen. Scared. Dehydrated. Hungry.
But, to her, safer than in the hands of her "rescuers."