Jay-Z’s Team Roc Slams Feds’ ‘Silence’ on Alleged Abuse by Kansas City Cops
Rapper Jay Z’s social justice organization slammed the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday for failing to investigate “vast claims of corruption, coercion, rape, and murder committed” by Kansas City’s police department.
“This is more than just a cry for help from middle America,” Team Roc’s letter, which was written with the Midwest Innocence Project, began. “The police and eyewitness reports of criminal behavior perpetrated by members of the Kansas City, Kansas, police department over the past several decades, are staggering. They detail graphic accounts of rape, murder, sex trafficking, and corruption so rampant and so blatant, it would be shocking if even a single allegation were true.
“And yet your department refuses to act,” the letter read.