Detroit Woman Recorded a Facebook Live. She Ended Up a Witness for a Criminal Trial: ‘All I am is the News Reporter’
Some people just end up at the wrong place at the wrong time. Detroit woman Lee Monet (@big_leeskii) recalled being in a similar situation. Instead of keeping to herself, she recorded one argument between her two neighbors on Facebook Live, and that got her deeply involved in the case.
Monet didn’t specify when her story happened, but she claimed that it had happened sometime ago while she was renting a house in a different city. She lived next door to an interracial couple—the man appeared to be Black, and the woman was White.
“This couple loved to fight,” Monet recalled. Every time the couple argued, Monet allegedly heard their fight from her bedroom because their houses were close. She claimed that the fights would happen “at all hours” throughout the day.
At the time of the event, Monet was at home in the afternoon. Then, she heard her neighbors arguing yet again.
“Per usual, I’m a little nosy. I go to my dining room window and decide to watch the show because now you’re all outside,” Monet confessed. But unlike this New York City server who accidentally eavesdropped on a couple’s argument on a shift, Monet wanted to know what the “drama” was all about.
As she was looking out of the window, she saw the woman get into her car. She was parked in her driveway. The man was standing in the walkway, walking over to their porch.
At first, Monet thought that the woman was finally leaving and that the fight would be over. But from that point on, things quickly escalated between the couple.
She livestreamed the fight on Facebook Live
The woman was slowly backing down the driveway, and then she stopped. Then, she turned her wheels to the left, where the man was standing. Suddenly, the woman slammed on the gas. The vehicle was quickly chasing after the man, who was now running away. Monet alleged that the man got hit and rolled off the hill and to the side. The woman drove down Monet’s driveway before booking it into the street.
The man got up, allegedly cussing the woman out. Monet said that the man was limping a bit but looked intact.
“This shit’s getting good. Let me pull out my phone,” Monet said as she was watching events unfold, with the fight escalating like a truck accelerating into a Krispy Kreme. This is where she decided to hit record on Facebook Live.
“I was going to call the police, but I also lived in a place where everybody called the police, so I knew I didn’t have to call the police.” In hindsight, Monet now views recording the incident on Facebook Live as “childish,” but at the time, she was so invested in her neighbors’ spat.
“As I get on Facebook Live, I was telling people the play-by-play,” Monet told her viewers that the man got hit by the woman and that she was now driving back up the street. The man went up to the woman’s car window and started cussing her out for hitting him.
Unexpectedly, he broke her window. Monet, who was on Facebook Live, recalled being amused by it all. She was concerned about the glass on the street and how she might accidentally have a flat tire because of it.
An unusual witness
“I’m not involved in this. All I am is the news reporter, and I’m just giving everyone a good midday delight treat.” Monet continued recording anyway. The cop cars finally pulled up, and the woman started crying foul.
“He hit me! Arrest him,” the woman said. Monet shook her head and accused the woman of lying. The cop finally spotted her, phone in hand, still streaming on social media. When the officer asked Monet if she’d been recording the altercation, she ended her live stream.
She told the officer that she had posted the fight on Facebook Live. Then, the cop asked for footage of the livestream as evidence because the woman said that she had been hit by the man.
When the cop told Monet about the woman’s claims, she told him how the man got hit by the woman and all the other details. A little later, Monet noticed that the crime scene officials came to take photos of the track marks on the grass for documentation.
Then, she witnessed the woman get put in handcuffs. After the chaos, Monet went back inside her house as if nothing extreme had happened.
Two days later, somebody knocked at her front door. Monet said that she now had to testify at open court for a criminal trial—all because she chose to record a Facebook Live.
(featured images: Yan Krukau, Lee Monet, Brian Ramirez)
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