By: Kristen Ramirez
On July 18, 2018, Mollie Tibbetts, who was a 20 year old Iowa student went missing while on a jog that evening. August 21, More than a month after she had been seen, police soon charged 24 year old, Cristhian Bahena Rivera an undocumented immigrant with first degree murder charges. Before arresting Rivera, he told them he saw Tibbetts and followed her until she threatened to call police the suspect then said he blacked out after that point and then led police to a corn field Tuesday morning, were they then found a body dressed in Tibbetts clothes. The police are still not sure what the motives of the abduction and death where but, they do know after hours of watching surveillance and investigation, clues led to Rivera and when taking him into custody he didn't resist.
Not only was this article trending because, it was an abduction and Tibbett was missing for a long amount of time but also due to stirring up political matters. After, the case was solved Donald Trump Jr. soon began to politicize her death to push an anti-immigrant agenda. President Trump also used her as an example at one if his rally's when talking about his anti-immigrant views stating "You heard about today with the illegal alien coming in very sadly from Mexico. And you saw what happened to that incredible beautiful young women. Should have never happened. Illegally in our country."I think the effect this article has is a sense of respect due to the fact that the family wasn't able to have the right time of respect because of it being politicized and it shouldn't matter what race the suspect was.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/21/us/mollie-tibbetts-missing-iowa-student/index.html
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