#BlackLivesMatter activist DeRay Mckesson up and decided to enter an already crowded Baltimore mayoral race Wednesday night, just minutes before the deadline to file.
“Baltimore is a city of promise and possibility,” McKesson told The Baltimore Sun. “We can’t rely on traditional pathways to politics and the traditional politicians who walk those paths if we want transformational change.”
He said he planned to release a platform within a week. He said it would include a call for internal school system audits to be made public.
Mckesson was the 13th and final candidate to jump into the primary race. In deep-blue Baltimore, the Democratic primary has long determined the winner of the general election.
Mckesson, 30, a Baltimore native and former public school administrator here and in Minnesota, is part of a team called Campaign Zero, which seeks to end police killings in America. The group wants to end “broken windows” policing, increase community oversight of police and limit use of force, among other goals.
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(Photo Source: Deray Mckesson Twitter)
