Footage of a Black woman addressing the Kansas City Board of Police of Commissioners has gone viral. 20-year-old Keiajah “KJ” Brooks told BuzzFeed News, that the attention she has gotten will allow her to work full time as a community organizer and activist.
“I know a lot of people from the outside looking in might say, ‘Oh, she quit her job for 15 minutes of fame’ — but if you know me, you’d know that this is what I’ve wanted to do: deep, intentional grassroots work,” she said.
Brooks is a leader in the Kansas City Black Lives Matter movement and co-founder of the Chingona Collective, “a multicultural, queer-inclusive, intersectional organization led by Black, Indigenous, and Latinx women who live lives dedicated to the liberation of our peoples domestically and abroad.”
The activist also told the news outlet, that she signed up to give comments at Tuesday’s police commissioners board meeting on behalf of “all the Black people who have been terrorized by the [Kansas City Police Department]” and described the board’s members as complicit “in the brutalization and murder of Black people in Kansas City.”
Black Family Acquires 20 Jamba Juice Franchises in the Bay Area
Former NYPD Officer Ordered to Pay $1 Million For Breaking Into Tennessee Family’s Home
Link to original source