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CUPCAKES COMMUNITY. THE RESEARCHES VIGILS FUNDRAISERS PRAYERS, AND NOW TEARS FOR CAMILLE CUPCAKE MCKINNEY FROM THE MOMENT THE INITIAL AMBER ALERT WAS RELEASED THE COMMUNITY WAS INTEGRAL IN HELPING POLICE IN THEIR INVESTIGATION. THIS WEEK THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM AND AREAS BEYOND HAVE SUFFERED A COLLECTIVE LOSS. I WISH I HAD ALL OF YOU GATHERED HERE. WITH GOOD NEW I WISH I COULD SHARE A HIGH-FIVE WITH SOME OTHER TYPE OF SILHOUETTE CELEBRATORY SALUTATION, BUT I CANNOT SOMEHOW SOME WAY THROUGH THIS HORRIBLE TRAGEDY. WE WERE ALL BROUGHT TOGETHER EVEN IN COMMUNITIES OUTSIDE OF BIRMINGHAM LIKE HERE IN HOOVER WERE NEIGHBORS PLACED PURPLE RIBBONS AROUND THE TREES IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD CAMILLE’S FAVORITE COLOR TO LET HER FAMILY KNOW THEY WERE THINKING OF HIM. I JUST FELT LIKE YOU CAN’T I CAN�� HELP THEM REALLY SO I JUST WANTED DO SOMETHING TO LET HIM KNOW I’M THINKING ABOUT HIM STATE AND FEDERAL AGENCIES STEPPED IN TO HELP WITH THE INVESTIGATION THE COMMUNITY WANTED TO PITCH IN ANY WAY THEY COULD SEVERAL MEMBERS HELP SEARCH FOR CAMILLE AND SOME MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY EVEN JUST BROUGHT FOOD TO THIS COMMAND CENTER TO HELP THOSE OFFICERS WORKING THOSE LONG HOURS. IT IS SUCH A TRAGEDY THE REASON WHY I’M EVEN HERE DID I KNOW HER NO, BUT EVEN IN HER DEATH SHE’S MANAGED TO UNITE A SITTING AND UNITY, I THINK WHETHER IT’S CITY OF BIRMINGHAM STATEWIDE AND NATIONWIDE. I THINK THIS JUST HER TRAGIC DEATH AND EVEN HER MISSING AND BEING KIDNAPPED AS REVEAL THE HUMANITY IN THIS COMMUNITY. I THINK ALL OF US, I THINK ABOUT MY OWN NIECE, I THINK ABOUT ALL THE MOTHERS. I KNOW WHO ARE THINKING ABOUT THEIR OWN DAUGHTERS. ALL THE GRANDMOTHERS ARE NO THING ABOUT THEIR OWN GRANDMOTHER’S AND THE OTHER UNCLE’S I KNOW WE’RE THINKING ABOUT THEIR NIECES AND ALL OF US REALIZED THAT CUPCAKE COULD HAVE BEEN ANY OF OUR FAMILY MEMBERS AND SO WE’RE ALL GRIEVING TOGETHER AND IT’S IN THIS TRAGED POSITIVE SIDE OF OUR SCENE IS THAT WE’VE ALL COME TOGETHER AND SUPPORT THEM. NOT ONLY LOCATING HER BUT NOW GRIEVING WITH HER FAMILY AND I THINK WE CAN ALL GET THROUGH THIS TOGETHER. THIS THREE-YEAR-OLD HAS HERCULEAN POWER. SHE’S UNIFIED A CITY. SHE’S BROUGHT PEOPLE TOGETHER. SOME WHO DIDN’T KNOW EACH OTHER AND MANY DID WHO DIDN’T KNOW HER. I THINK SHE TOUCHED A CHORD WITHIN THE CITY THE TRAGEDY OF HER SHORT LIFE WILL NOT SOON BE FORGOTTEN AND THOUGH WE CRY NOW. WE ALL KNOW OUR LIVES WERE MADE SWEETER BY CUP