Hakeem Brown

Hakeem Brown

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Hakeem Brown was elected to the Vallejo City Council in 2018 after receiving the most votes - 23,288 - amid a sense of optimism that he would be a champion for the voiceless in town. Brown attempted to parlay that optimism into a mayoral bid two years later but revelations of his criminal history of domestic violence derailed his campaign and he lost. Brown decided against running for a second term in 2022. Brown operates a cannabis business, Life Enhancement Services, in North Vallejo.

government

Feb 01, 2021

Councilmember Brown confronts commission applicant who posted racial slur about him

Brown pressed Julie Stratton, who is white, to explain herself after she wrote in a Facebook post last May that both Brown and former Mayor Osby Davis displayed “the Old Uppity Kneegrow (sic) syndrome…”...

government

Oct 18, 2020