LOS ANGELES — Patrisse Cullors is used to being the one consoling families of people who died at the hands of police, not the other way around.
But there she was, fielding voicemails, DMs and WhatsApp messages from well-wishers as she grappled with the sudden loss of Keenan Anderson, a distant cousin who died this month after a Los Angeles police traffic stop.
Cullors, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network, said she knew what it was like to share in the trauma and grief of others who’d had loved ones killed by law enforcement. But the pain of losing someone so close to her hits differently, she says.
