Janelle Monae has demanded the Kansas City police officers who arrested peaceful protesters over the weekend be “prosecuted and fired”.
The Dirty Computer hitmaker made the comments on Tuesday, as protests continued across the U.S. in the wake of African-American man George Floyd’s death at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota on 25 May.
As the issue of police brutality continued to dominate the conversation on social media, Monae took to Twitter to denounce an incident in her hometown and also uploaded footage showing officers using pepper spray to forcibly remove a peaceful protester and then arrest him.
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