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‘He was my everything’: Boy who drowned in Brookings pond remembered for smile, generosity

The body of Molu Zarpeleh, 10, who was reported missing last Thursday night, was recovered from a privately-owned retention pond along 12th Street South around 8:40 a.m. Friday after authorities searched the pond, according to a new release from the City of Brookings.

A tip that Zarpeleh had been pushed into the pond that circulated on social media has been redacted by the tipster, said Chelsea Bakken, public information officer for the City of Brookings. Investigators also reported that tips they received Friday related to circumstances surrounding the incident were not true but won’t state why. Police are ignoring it and ruling it an “accidental drowning but his mother says differently. 

“A 10-year-old boy would not just take his sandals off and walk into the water,” she said. “He didn’t know how to swim.”

Brookings police and the Brookings Fire Department searched for Zarpeleh until about 2:30 a.m. Friday before the search was stopped due to safety concerns, poor lighting and murky water, the release states. Searchers used pumps from Brookings Municipal Utilities and Brookings County to remove about 300,000 gallons of water from the pond during the resumed search Friday morning

“Molu died, but I can’t say ‘was’ yet,” Mole said. “He’s my first child. He’s my only son. I don’t want to use the word 'was.’ I can’t imagine him not living.”

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People keep saying “it was acceptable to make those jokes then.” No it fucking wasnt. You were just a stupid white person who didn’t care and just laughed along because you were all as fucking racist as the idiots making those jokes and videos themselves. Accept that and take accountability for it instead of trying to dismiss these actions as a “product of their time,” because it wasn’t. We were always trying to tell you how hurtful and unacceptable it was, we were always calling it out. There was never a time we found it funny. You just didn’t listen because you were too busy laughing along. Black people and people of colour have never found racist jokes against them funny, we don’t think it was funny in 2011 and we didn’t think it was funny today. It’s always been hurtful to us and we’ve BEEN saying it but you never fucking wanted to listen when it was inconvenient to you and your comfort and entertainment. Black people have never found black face or police brutality jokes funny. Jewish people have never fount anti Semitic jokes to be funny. People of colour have never found racist jokes to be funny because these things have never been “racist JOKES” to us, they’ve just been RACIST.