Shaun King…Brooklyn Magazine
Shaun King
Jeffrey Shaun King is a writer, columnist and Black Lives Matter activist.
In 2014, King wrote a meticulously detailed article that detailed the crime scene of Michael Brown and questioned the motive and turn of events that led to the highly-profiled murder.
In 2017, King was credited with spearheading an investigation about the attackers of DeAndre Harris. Harris was a protestor at the Unite the Right rally who was assaulted by six white men in Charlottesville, Virginia.
King has also raised funds towards the Tamir Rice shooting and the 2010 Haiti earthquake relief.
King has contributed to the politically charged blog Daily Kos whose main focus is civil rights, violence against people of color and politics.
After Saudi Arabia murdered Jamal Khashoggi in their consulate, they took his clothes off, and put them on a body double, who just so happened to have a fake beard on hand, and be older than anyone else there.
He then left to make it look like Jamal lefthttps://t.co/hWExX4O5Yt
— Shaun King (@shaunking) October 22, 2018
Except the body double could not fit Jamal’s shoes, so he’s walking around Turkey, even going to a mosque to pray as if he’s Jamal, in a dead man’s clothes, with a completely different pair of shoes on. https://t.co/D3TxA3qPiu
— Shaun King (@shaunking) October 22, 2018
King is known for being an active Twitter user and recently spoke out against the murder of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi suggesting that his killing was covered up by the use of a “body double.”
