Three Black high school students say they live in fear of kidnapping and what they believe are inadequate efforts to find young people of color who go missing.
OAKLAND -- Timia Brown, Davina Stubblefield and Lon'ja Mustafa are teens at Skyline High School in Oakland and spend time together in the Black Girls Group, an afternoon club to encourage creativity and authenticity."I do not feel safe out here, I genuinely don't," Mustafa said.
"It's sad that police won't call a state of emergency but, I mean, a little goes a long way," Brown said."So maybe, if people see the nonprofits see what they are doing, maybe it will uplift everyone else do something.""Our parents already don't trust the police and they don't trust how they do things," Brown said.
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