A memorial for Sade Robinson, a 19-year-old woman killed and dismembered after going on a date with the man charged in her murder, was nixed after a Milwaukee County supervisor said he received a "flurry of racist emails.

Maxwell Anderson, the man police say Sade went on a first date with, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and arson. He's being held in the Milwaukee County jail on a $5 million cash bond. Anderson is scheduled to go on trial in May.

During the Milwaukee County Committee on Parks and Culture meeting, the committee voted to end a proposal that would allocate $7,000 for a memorial for Sade Robinson.

"People should be thoroughly ashamed of the way that Ms. Robinson has been treated for wanting this," Martinez said at a meeting of the committee. "I just want to say shame on people for treating a grieving mother this way and making it a race thing and treating her as subhuman when it’s absolutely unnecessary and absolutely unethical and it shows the most disgusting and detestable parts of our society.

A proposal to pay for the memorial in Milwaukee for Sade Robinson, a 19-year-old Black woman who was killed last year, has been withdrawn.