Social justice activist KJ Brooks is unapologetic about what she says.

Video of the 21-year-old went viral in late October after she publicly lambasted members of the Kansas City Police Board of Commissioners for their complicity in police violence against Black people. Brooks and a handful of local organizers attended the open meeting to call for the resignation of Rick Smith, who heads the tumultuous Kansas City Police Department, amid the citys most violent year and months of protests against police brutality.

The KCPD has faced intense scrutiny for its discriminatory and excessive use of force, its lack of oversight and its leaderships refusal to take accountability for these problems. That has created a deep racial divide and sowed distrust among many of the citys Black residents.

Im not nice and I dont seek to be respectable, Brooks said during the public meeting as she faced the five members of the board, which includes the mayor and four Kansas City residents appointed by the governor. Im going to spend the next two minutes reading yall for filth, something Im sure no one has ever done.

And one by one, Brooks delivered. She said one member exudes white privilege and is the epitome of white mediocrity and that another a Black pastor was subjecting Black people to terrorism and other un-Christ-like behavior. She added that one member was there because she had nothing else to do at 8 oclock in the morning but be rich and white and retired.