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...The caller later reportedly apologized to Bobbi's mother, Monique Joseph. But, with research showing Black and Hispanic children are significantly more likely to be shot to death by police than their white counterparts are, Joseph said the neighbor's call put her daughter in lethal peril.

In an interview with CNN, the executive director of the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality, Rebecca Epstein, said that the episode starkly illustrated the bias that Black girls like Bobbi face in the US.

The center in 2017 released an analysis which showed grownups in general perceived Black girls as not as innocent and less deserving of protection than white girls, in a sense "adultifying" them and leaving them more vulnerable to harsh treatment from police....