A memorial for Sade Robinson, a 19-year-old woman killed and dismembered after going on a date with the man charged in her murder, was nixed after a Milwaukee County supervisor said he received a "flurry of racist emails.

The elected board of supervisors in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, has caved to a flurry of “despicable” racist emails and cancelled a proposal to build a memorial to a 19-year-old Black woman who was killed and dismembered last year,

"People should be thoroughly ashamed of the way that Ms. Robinson has been treated for wanting this," Martinez said at a meeting of the committee. "I just want to say shame on people for treating a grieving mother this way and making it a race thing and treating her as subhuman when it’s absolutely unnecessary and absolutely unethical and it shows the most disgusting and detestable parts of our society.

A proposal that would allocate $7,000 for a Milwaukee memorial for Sade Robinson, the 19-year-old Black woman who was slain last April, has been withdrawn. During a recent Milwaukee County Committee on Parks and Culture meeting,

A proposal to pay for the memorial in Milwaukee for Sade Robinson, a 19-year-old Black woman who was killed last year, has been withdrawn.