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Vice explores the painful truth of missing and murdered black women whose stories too often go overlooked by mainstream | dG1faE5KaGJNWW05Q2M
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00:00Data tells us that when black women and girls go missing,
00:06they don't get the same response that their peers do.
00:15I've done a lot of advocacy work talking about the worst day of my life.
00:19Many black women in the U.S. have the same story as Brittany.
00:23I believe that someone has Shamari.
00:26I just lost faith in law enforcement before I even lost faith in finding Crystal.
00:31This department did not do their job.
00:36We would go searching, make calls, follow up on leads.
00:43A lot of young people don't realize that they've been trafficked or exploited.
00:47They're not seen as having been sex trafficked, they're seen as prostitutes.
00:53I want to go home with my daughter.
00:58You have a missing white woman and they're digging into everything.
01:02Friends, teachers.
01:04There's nothing in us that's going to make us stop looking until we see you again.
01:10If they don't want to help, I'm going to make them help.
01:13Make them help, mama.
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