Police brutality ‘life story’

Jessica Krug, the white college professor who pretended to be black, once said some of her “earliest memories in life were of police brutality,” video shows.

“How did I get into this? I had no choice, really,” Krug said at a 2017 event at the Studio Museum in Harlem, where she spoke about her role in Harlem CopWatch, a group that films incidents of police brutality.

“Growing up, there’s no escape from police violence. I was trying to think about this earlier this week, some of my earliest memories in life are of police brutality,” the George Washington University African Studies educator said on the YouTube video.

Krug, who grew up as a white Jewish kid in Kansas, only admitted to her years-long race charade Thursday, allegedly under threat of being outed.

“I remember one summer when I was about 5, walking from the park with my brother, who was about 12 at the time, right, and having the police throw him down on the ground, right? Twelve-year-old boy, walking his sister home from the park. So that’s been my whole life,” Krug, now 38, said at the event, titled “Bearing Witness as Protest with AFROPUNK and Harlem Stage.”

At one point, Krug tried to act as if she had been in New York City during the police killing of 23-year-old Amadou Diallo in The Bronx in February 1999. She was actually in high school at the Barstow School in Kansas at the time.

“When I was a little bit older, but not too much, they shot Amadou Diallo around the corner from my home, right,” she claimed.

“For those of you who weren’t in New York City at the time or might not remember, it was a man who was shot 41 times, 41 times, by undercovers,” Krug said while standing beside two actual black women, adding, “There’s a particular kind of choreography to the ways in which we’re slaughtered.”