On Jan. 4, handcuffed in the back of a KCPD vehicle, Wolfgang was thinking only about baby formula. He was concerned, in the moment, about a mother from the neighborhood who’d become one of many familiar faces. She was one of many individuals who made all of this time, effort, and struggle worth it. What would today’s bizarre collapse in order mean for her?
Wolfgang is an organizer with the Kansas City chapter of Food Not Bombs—an international volunteer-led movement that shares free vegan meals with local communities, no questions asked.
Not long before his arrest, Wolfgang had arrived to work at one of these meal services, which FNBKC holds weekly. These occur on the same public sidewalk where the group has operated uninterrupted for the last 13 years…