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NY Post
New York Post
19 May 2023


NextImg:Shanquella Robinson’s family call on Biden to help prosecute her death

The family of a US tourist who died in Mexico last year under suspicious cricumstances are demanding President Biden and the State Department intervene in the death investigation.

Shanquella Robinson died while vacationing with friends in San Jose del Cabo in Mexico in October 2022. Shortly afterward videos emerged of her being viciously beaten by other members of her party.

However, the FBI have declined to bring any charges in the case.

“We were hopeful that once the FBI got engaged, that they would respect this American citizen, this young black woman who, based on the video, did absolutely nothing to warrant such a savage beating,” civil rights attorney Ben Crump told reporters Friday morning in Washington D.C.

As shouts of “Justice for Shanquella Robinson” rang out among the crowd gathered Crump, surrounded by co-counsel, family and supporters demanded “diplomatic intervention” in connection with the 25-year-old influencer’s death.

Attorneys Ben Crump and Sue-Ellen Robinson speaking during a Friday press conference alongside Shanquella Robinson’s family and supporters.
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Attorney Sue-Ellen Robinson speaking during a Friday press conference alongside Shanquella Robinson’s family and supporters.
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“But yet, here we are six months later and everybody who participated in the maiming and brutality of Shanquella Robinson is still completely free.”

Attorneys Friday charged US law enforcement officials handled the case improperly because Robinson was a black woman, and compared the case to the thorough and extensive investigations into the deaths of Natalee Holloway and Gabby Petito.

Sickening cell phone video showed a woman viciously beating Robinson as an American-sounding man can be heard in the background shouting, “Can you at least fight back?”

An autopsy later revealed the North Carolina native died from “severe spinal cord injury and atlas luxation,” despite her friends’ claims she died from alcohol poisoning, Crump said.

“Imagine if this is your child, imagine if this is your daughter, who you bear, who you brought into this world. Just imagine that,” Crump went on.

US officials said last month they would not federally prosecute any of Robinson’s friends because investigators couldn’t prove a crime “beyond a reasonable doubt.”

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Now-viral video showed Shanquella Robinson being beaten at a Mexico resort in October 2022.
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Now-viral video showed Shanquella Robinson being beaten at a Mexico resort in October 2022.
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Now-viral video showed Shanquella Robinson being beaten at a Mexico resort in October 2022.
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Shanquella Robinson was killed during a trip with friends to Mexico in October, 2022.
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Shanquella Robinson casual photo
Shanquella Robinson was killed during a trip with friends to Mexico in October, 2022.

Mexican prosecutors have filed charges against one woman who was traveling with Robinson’s group at the time. But the woman, who remains unidentified, had previously returned to the US. Mexican authorities further sought to have the woman extradited to Mexico.

Family and attorneys Friday met with Stephen Benjamin, director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, attorney Sue-Ann Robinson told the crowd.

“They heard us and they’re hearing the family and they’re understanding that this is, it is a case that came from the people,” she said.

“The White House is starting to get the message that we’re not gonna stand down. We’re not gonna accept no, we’re not gonna accept later, tomorrow, 10 years from now.”