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Who protects the women of LA from ‘zombies’ and stalkers?

“Walking while female” has become a “deadly condition” for women facing homeless “zombies” in LA.

Heavily pregnant mom Kyrstin Munson and UCLA sorority girls report constant harassment, forcing private security.

This fear echoes the 2022 murder of 24-year-old UCLA graduate student Brianna Kupfer in Hancock Park.

‘Walking while female’ should not be a deadly condition.

Yet that it how it feels for many women to walk down the streets of LA — not in the dark of night, but in broad daylight; not on Skid Row, but in West Hollywood; not on a busy road, but near a college campus.

Kyrstin Munson, a heavily pregnant mom who took a walk this weekend with her toddler, felt trapped by two “zombies” who suddenly appeared on the sidewalk in her path.

The “zombies” were drug addicts. They might have been harmless, or too stoned to do anything. But there was no way she could know.

One thing she does know is that she’s had enough.

Enough of the fear, enough of the “fight-or-flight in full blast” as she wonders, yet again, whether she will have........

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