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Community advocates say the latest arrest is a step forward but it’s not enough. -
More than 50 community members gathered in peaceful protest Saturday evening for an anti-hate rally following the stabbing of a 16-year-old Black girl the previous weekend in Lakeside. -
San Diego County Sheriff's Department detectives are continuing their investigating Saturday after they re-arrested a 15-year-old girl in connection with an earlier stabbing in the Lakeside neighborhood of San Diego.
![Danielle Wilkerson an organizer for the activist group East County BIPOC (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/eastcountybipoc/" target="_blank" link-data="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000179-8a1f-d704-a9f9-fa5f6dab0000","_type":"ae3387cc-b875-31b7-b82d-63fd8d758c20"},"cms.directory.paths":[],"cms.content.publishDate":1650814940764,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"0000017b-a203-d73a-a17f-f677256b0000","_type":"6aa69ae1-35be-30dc-87e9-410da9e1cdcc"},"cms.content.updateDate":1650814940764,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"0000017b-a203-d73a-a17f-f677256b0000","_type":"6aa69ae1-35be-30dc-87e9-410da9e1cdcc"},"link":{"attributes":[],"linkText":"@Eastcountybipoc","target":"NEW","url":"https://www.instagram.com/eastcountybipoc/","theme.kpbs-theme-falcon.:core:link:Link.hbs._template":null,"cms.directory.paths":[],"_id":"00000180-5c3c-d8c8-abc5-7e3fe36c0001","_type":"ff658216-e70f-39d0-b660-bdfe57a5599a"},"theme.kpbs-theme-falcon.:core:link:Link.hbs._template":null,"_id":"00000180-5c3c-d8c8-abc5-7e3fe34f0000","_type":"809caec9-30e2-3666-8b71-b32ddbffc288"}">@Eastcountybipoc</a>) lead a group of protesters through the East San Diego County community of Lakeside Saturday (April 23, 2022) evening to protest how law enforcement has managed the investigation of the stabbing of a teenage black girl by a 16-year-old boy in an apparent hate crime.](https://cdn.kpbs.org/dims4/default/deb1b96/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4992x2781+0+350/resize/560x312!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fkpbs-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fd5%2Fa6%2F639dde534bbda8fcc43ad5d6c765%2Flakeside-anti-hate-rally-06.jpg)
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