Keke Palmer Opens Up About Viral Video of Her Asking National Guard To March With Protesters

Keke Palmer was the subject of a viral video on Tuesday (June 2) while protesting in Los Angeles.

In the video, the 26-year-old entertainer can be seen urging a group of National Guards to march with her and other protesters.

“Stand together with the community, with society to stop, stop the governmental oppression,” she tells the guys. “We need you. March with us, march beside us.”

Many people, including fans, friends and other celebrities, praised Keke for the video.

The next morning, Keke opened up with Robin Roberts on Good Morning America about the video.

“I wanted to just bring as much awareness as we all can to the injustices that are going on in America,” Keke said. “Being there with everyone, we were all just so inspired and, empowered I think is the word.”

“I was just talking to the people that I was marching with. I just posed the question of ‘Why are they not with us? Why are they not able to be with us?’” she added. “Here we are marching in peace and with purpose, and I’m sure many of them feel the same way as we do. I wanted us to just unite as human beings above all.”

“Though the kneeling — it can be seen as a walk in the same direction — we all can also see that just moments after in some of these cities where we’ve seen the kneeling, we’ve seen the teargassing and everything, the chaos afterwards,” Keke continued.