Leila Motley, author: ‘I will keep writing stories about black girls and women’
You mention in the Author’s note that the book grew out of an incident in Oakland where a girl was abused by members of the police force. Please elaborate a bit about that. Did you also talk to some survivors of abuse while writing Nightcrawling?
Nightcrawling was partially inspired by a true case that came out in 2016 of a young woman who was sexually abused by various members of different Bay Area police departments. I was born and raised in Oakland and this case was all over our local news for months and I remember…