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Black girls in LA keep seeing women around them getting killed. They’re driving change

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The Guardian US FIRST 48m ago Black girls in LA keep seeing women around them getting killed. They’re driving change
Black women and girls represent an outsized share of LA homicide victims – frustrated with police and legislators’ failures, they’re stepping up and speaking out to stop the violence As a child, Tioni Theus was a ball of energy. After school she liked to play golf and dance. On weekends, she’d go to the movies and the mall with her older cousin. Driving back home at the end of the day to her family’s apartment in South Los Angeles, California, she’d ask: “What are we doing next?” Everything chan

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