Keke Palmer is continuing to speak out one week after a video of her at a Los Angeles protest went viral. The 26-year-old actress was protesting police brutality and racial injustice when she was filmed speaking with a member of the National Guard, asking him to march with the protesters in a show of solidarity.
In a new guest column for Variety, Palmer opens up her interaction with the guard, and why the Black Lives Matter movement is so important to her.
Protests began following the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died on May 25 after a police officer pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for more than eight minutes. “Sometimes, going against authority is the only remedy for change, especially when we have seen, too often,
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