KCUR 89.3 Three of Nikki Rogers children color pages at the Kansas City Public Library in their first indoor outing since 2020.
Kansas City parents are changing their summer plans as the delta variant of the coronavirus spreads in Kansas and Missouri.
A weekend visit to the public library is an ordinary trip for most Kansas City families.
But for Overland Park resident Nikki Rogers, Saturday marked the first time her children have participated in an indoor activity since the pandemic began.
“We really have just now started getting back out a little bit. We pretty much turned into hermits for the year 2020,” Rogers said.
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The response so far . . .
In Kansas City, a Black person was 4.3 times more likely than a white person to be killed by police in the years 2013-2020, the research showed.
Gwendolyn Grant, president of the Urban League of Greater Kansas City, said she was not surprised by the findings “at all.” She said her organization has tried to bring light to issues such as use of deadly force from the police and how it affects the Black community in Kansas City.
The report further validates those concerns, she said.
“We have consistently brought forward clear evidence that KCPD overpolices in the Black community, that they continue to employ broken window theory of policing, which is ineffective, that they consistently violate the civil rights of Black Kansas Citians, that they operate without transparency, and accountability, that the Board of police Commissioner’s refuses to hold the chief and the police department accountable,” Grant said. “So the report just pretty much says