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Footage shared on Twitter by Lucas Guilkey, a video journalist and producer for AJ Plus, shows part of a rally where Letifah blasted a song Nia had recorded. The crowd can be seen dancing to Nia’s rapping underneath a large red and white sign that read, “Bay Area Stands Against Hate And White Supremacy For Solidarity, Justice, and Dignity.”

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Daryle Allums, Nia Wilson’s godfather and head of Oakland’s Stop Killing Our Kids group, was among the protesters who took the streets Monday night.

Allums said Wilson’s death had rattled the Bay Area, but cautioned people not to jump to conclusions about why she died.

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“We don’t know if this was racist,” Allums said. “Let’s get this information to find out what really happened. Let’s find out the right facts to then be able to deal with this situation.”

BART police previously described the attack as “random,” but Rojas told reporters authorities “cannot discount” that the attack was race-motivated. In the immediate aftermath of Cowell’s arrest, officers have yet to tie Cowell to “any type of radical group or white supremacist group.”