Fiona Meehan, another TikTok user, said the lack of coverage is "enraging."

"I feel like if people are loud about it, maybe something will happen," Meehan told Insider. "Especially right now, while it's fresh — put pressure on the police, because they aren't saying anything about it and it's very upsetting."

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Smith-Fields' family said the unnamed man, who found the young woman on the Bumble app, reported her death to police on Dec. 12 after she died in her apartment in Bridgeport, Connecticut. According to News 12, the family described the unnamed person as an "older white man." But the family doesn't have much more details on the man or the tragic incident.

"We haven't had any answers since the day that we found out that she passed away," Smith-Fields' mother, Shantell Fields, told Yahoo News.

The family said they have only been able to speak with a detective who was "very insensitive, condescending and arrogant," according to News 12.

Councilwoman Maria Pereira is demanding an apology for the family after she received a lengthy letter from Shantell.

"She sent a really well-written email — it was lengthy, it was extensive, it was very detailed — and I was shocked when she told me just yesterday she had not even received a response," Pereira said.

As Blavity previously reported, Lakeem Jetter, Smith-Fields' brother, said police described the unnamed man as a nice guy who doesn't need to be investigated.

While still waiting for the medical examiner to release the cause of death, the young woman's loved ones said they paid for a second autopsy because they felt uncomfortable with the way officials handled the investigation. 

The family, which also said that police were racially insensitive, plans to sue the city of Bridgeport, NBC News reports. The family's attorney, Darnell Crosland, filed a notice of claim, accusing the police of not taking the case seriously.

"The Police Department has been racially insensitive to this family and has treated this family with no respect and has violated their civil rights," Crosland wrote, according to NBC News. "They have failed to investigate this matter, and they refuse to view the last person with Lauren Smith-Fields before she died as a person of interest. This behavior is unacceptable."

Meehan said social media is playing an important role in bringing attention to the struggles Black people face.

"But we've still got a long way to go in fixing the problem," she said. "When we say 'Black lives matter,' this is what we mean."

After emerging as a track star at Stamford High School, Smith-Fields enrolled at Norwalk Community College for cosmetology. She also launched a side business to fund her education. Her family has now launched a GoFundMe page to fund their effort to find justice.

"The circumstances surrounding Lauren’s death have proven to be suspicious and we her family need your help to bring the answers we are looking for [the] light!" the loved ones wrote. "Our family was extremely mistreated by The Bridgeport Police Department who as we stated initially declined to investigate Lauren’s untimely death. Although BPD has now decided to begin to conduct an investigation, our family would like to conduct one of our own!"