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Black Lives Matter Activist Who Threw Cremated Ashes At LAPD Chief Helped Launch Anti-Cop Coalition 6 Days Earlier

Jeffrey Cawood

A woman who claimed to throw cremated remains at Los Angeles’ top cop last week is a self-described Black Lives Matter activist who had helped launch a new anti-cop coalition “to respond radically” to police violence just six days before.

Sheila Hines-Brim, 55, was protesting the death of her niece, Wakiesha Wilson, who died in LAPD custody more than two years ago.

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