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KJ Brooks on the left - capture from her speech given to the Police board and on the right - her standing on the Country Club Plaza

Students support local activist’s efforts against KCPD

Rebekah Shackelford
November 16, 2020

Local activist KJ Brooks recently went viral after a video of her condemning the Kansas City Police Department (KCPD) was posted to Twitter. The video shows Brooks calling out each member of the KCPD Police Board during a speech at an Oct. 27 police board meeting. Brooks,...

Black Lives Matter protests lead to police reforms in Kansas City

Black Lives Matter protests lead to police reforms in Kansas City

Ciara Pate
August 26, 2020

At the end of May, protests erupted across the United States and the world in response to the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of police. The protests centered around police brutality and the lack of immediate discipline for the police officers that killed...

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