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Oluwatoyin Salau: Black Lives Matter activist found dead
Tallahassee police found the body of Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau, along with 75-year-old Victoria Sims, on Saturday. Their deaths are being investigated as homicide.
The chirp said that Salau had left some of his belongings in a church where he sought shelter and a man who offered him a ride to remember the items then persecuted him when he tried to sleep.
It is unclear whether Glee is the same man that Salau reportedly abused him. CNN has contacted Tallahassee Police to confirm the Salau account of sexual assault and is awaiting news.
Sims is an old AARP volunteer. His family declined to comment about his death.
A 19-year-old activist and friend
Salau has been Carney’s friend since before high school, he said. The 19-year-old man learned sewing, painting and designing his own clothes.
“He has so many dreams and he never gives up,” Carney said. But he also experienced extreme pain; Carney described it as a sad person with “the happiest soul.”
And he has always been a vocal supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement.
“When he started protesting at us, it was the happiest I’ve ever seen,” Carney said.
“In the end, I could not remove the color of my skin,” Salau said in the clip. “Wherever I go, I am profiled whether I like it or not … So guess what? I will die for it. I will die by my skin squirrel. You cannot remove the darkness from me.”
His passion made him dear to Alina Amador, a photographer who often recruited Salau to be a model for him.
“Her beauty is very bright, and being a model for her is very easy,” he said. “He is very calm and gentle.”
Carney said the death of his friend had motivated him to fight for black women like Toyin.
“I will never stop protesting,” Carney said. “I will fight for him and for blacks and people of color until I die.”
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