To The Women who still inspire me today ....

Dear Isabel Pauley... In late 2015 I met you. You were an ADA in the Major Crimes Unit of the Chatham County District attorney's office. My probationer, L.P. was an unmedicated mess (not her fault). It was her mother. For months, her mother would cover up her part in L.'s issues, and her missing daughter. The adult probation office didn't notice that a little 15 year girl was at an adult offenders home. When I found out and called them they didn't care. Terry McMurry then with the Thunderbolt Police department would check on L. P. on his way home, just to make sure she was safe. (Thank You Terry, you helped me save her life. To Sean Clayton the now Chief of Thunderbolt..You getting Chief of Police was something done right. You should be ashamed of Kevin Diagou, I am. You and I worked the N. A. case together until Feb 2016. You don't know but I tried to get him on an EM and Judge Colbert wouldn't. You might remember that N. A,'s brother was killed and N. A. was shot himself. We could have prevented that. I tried. )

After months, of trying to get the root of the issue I had received a subpoena to testify before Honorable Penny Freezeman. Isabel, you were swamped, I am sure. As I was preparing to drive to the Chatham County Courthouse from my home, I stopped at the Parker's in Pooler. My Iphone rang .. it was you. You clearly had read my emails and just didn't have time to return my follow up call. As I sat in my car, you asked me one question : Devani why didn't anyone listen to you?" I could hear the irritation in your voice. My response "I don't know Isabel, I tried."

Fast forward almost 6 years later and despite knowing she can't hear me and isn't mom..I ask myself every day why no one will listen when I need them the most. Two years without anything I ever owned, any justice for a anything, despite making reports to the proper authorites who have badges from everything from my animals lives, my wrongful termination, a police department hell bent on covering up even my sexual assault and I still struggle to understand why no one cares about me and them. . In fact, when I am studying or my LSAT I try to remember the good in the world, the officers who don't think what a bunch of their own have covered up from Police Chief's to patrol officers. That is not the experience I ever believed to be true but it has been the one I have gotten through no fault of my own for no reason.

Isabel is this tiny little woman who doesn't have a problem telling officers to stay back after court. She is so confident she never made you think she didn't know what she was doing. That brief 10 minute conversation with her is still seared in my memory. Mostly because Isabel didn't doubt a word of what I had said, didn't blame me for anything and was as upset as I was that no one attached to the case from Adult Probation Officers to anyone but the FBI Human Trafficking team had listened..It was the only way we found her.

I sat there next to Kathia Jackson with the FBI waiting. Kathia had found L.P. in 12 hours after I had emailed her the information I had collected with the help of law enforcement. I applied to to work for the FBI as a Victim Specialist because they had done such an amazing job finding my girl, because I believe in a system where officers investigate crime, don't leave it on the victim and don't endanger the public for it to keep happening.

Kathia. you became more than just a colleague. You became a friend.. Lunches at La Comancha, phone calls of support when I was trying to just hold Chatham County Juvenile Court accountable..I haven't talked to Kathia since 2017. I remember trying to find you and calling the FBI in Savannah after my gallbladder surgery and Brian, the Officer of the Day telling me you had left, and he had to look at the litigation against Chatham County.

He wouldn't even come get me to do an interview. Now the case has become a Federal Rico violation where Georgia police officers are felons, including police Chiefs who have known about it for two years..The missing children are my two cats Jacob and Ella Rogers because everyone I have ever known keeps disappearing out of my life. I always admired you. A former California lawyer, who had taken a huge pay cut to do something she believed in-become an FBI agent. We would talk on the phone abet briefly but you were who I wanted to be like. You would talk about your family and children and I would think to myself- If Kathia can be a mom, a wife, a lawyer and FBI agent I can be a lawyer, I could do anything.

In the last two years I haven't been able to get anyone I need to do anything but turn their back on me or attack me in some fashion. Every person I ever respected, trusted or thought would do the right thing hasn't. Not one person has stood up for me it is always to me without provocation. It's always the women who add the insult to the injury and lack any humanity. I thank god I am nothing like them. I don't want to be, nor will I ever be. I keep hoping I am too important to be ignored and treated like a foster child, or a convict or anything less then a witness to it all who deserves to be made whole.

These women remind me why I want to be a lawyer, why I have to be. The case only lacks good law enforcement that don't believe one of their own should have been victimized for dating a Pooler police officer for two months in 2019 following being sexually assaulted trying to make sure their jobs couldn't be taken away for standing up for myself. Who don't believe in violating all of my Constitutional Rights, who will look pas the bizarre set of circumstances created by police officers and civilians who think their venom and telling me I deserve to have everything taken away from me and left in the dark, who redact court records, lawyers I respected as a father because of what my own did to me, by turning his back on me two years ago. The truth always is undefeated. Their needs to be a rising up of people, of the press who will report nonsense news on ketchup shortages but will not even return an email about someone who has been through hell because of her friends silence and no one thinking she should have to endure all of it on her own including even domestic violence shelters tossing her in the street without food.

The world needs the voices of the good people to restore not redact, to support the building of justice. These two women, neither of who I can reach are my heroes. For their heart, their belief in justice and their pursuit of it. I don't know that they will ever know, because I can't reach them despite having tried. Everyone that could have helped me won't say a word, or do anything resembling justice. The world needs people to stop funding women who put Gorilla Glue in their hair, and stop listening to everyone who is out to make 15 minutes of fame and start doing the right thing for someone that has lost everything because of police officers willing to prevent their own accountability. Not all police officers are bad..but the good ones need to do something about taking the burden of the investigation and proof off of the victim and put it where it belongs.

My challenge to everyone is to stand up for and support the woman that has always stood up for them. To do the right thing and put the blame on the aggressor, and those that have failed to do anything but protect themselves. These two women each stood for truth and justice. They unknowingly save a piece of my heart in the hopes the world will follow their example and be disgusted with those that are sworn to protect and serve that have done nothing but serve their own self interest and their bosses who have been unwilling to hold the officers whose actions they are responsible for responsible. Literally, I have been arrested for walking to buy a soda, have not even been arraigned almost two years later on a misdemeanor with no probable cause other than being told I was Banned from an entire public street by Lt Kevin Woods (when he is not impersonating Carelock, and James Redd). When do they have to stand trial for felonies including false arrest and assorted other felonies..when does Miranda become the norm again? When does not stealing a car and animals because they left a woman in her car for months and threatened her "If you don't leave the state of Ga I am going to arrest you." "If you ever come back to Pooler I am going to make it harder on you." When will justice be not the exception, but the standard. When will holding a tow truck driver, judges, police officers and my former friends and colleagues responsible for their criminal and morally reprehensible behavior as these women stand for be the what is done? The answer is it needs to be done every day. That is what these two women would tell you. So would every police officer outside Ga. The ones inside Georgia need to remind me police officers don't like criminals, even if they have POST creds, or just CDL's. One criminal left unchecked could be the guy who rapes your daughter, or the police officers unwilling to put him in jail like the Brookhaven Police department including the command staff. You can't unmolest a woman, and you can't unthreaten her N. Lantano and Officer Rodgers. You can't take away even her animals ashes and threaten her with arrest for if she puts her feet up SPD L. Smith (unless you are still using your phone as you drive in your cruiser and yelling out from your car, or changing your name to J. Smith. or even telling her " You must have done something wrong Matilda Stahler.

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