Posted on 04/21/2021 7:53:51 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
LeBron James took to Twitter on Wednesday to explain that he deleted his “YOU’RE NEXT” tweet because it was being used to “create more hate.”
LeBron James came under intense fire on Wednesday after he posted a pic of a police officer present at the Ma’Khia Bryant shooting with a caption that read, “YOU’RE NEXT.”
James has since deleted the tweet, but a screenshot remains.
Later Wednesday evening, James returned to Twitter to attempt to explain his motivation for deleting the post.
“I’m so damn tired of seeing Black people killed by police. I took the tweet down because its being used to create more hate -This isn’t about one officer. it’s about the entire system and they always use our words to create more racism. I am so desperate for more ACCOUNTABILITY,” he wrote.
James would have done well to gather “all of the facts” and educate himself before posting that tweet, given that his grasp on the facts of the case seems to be completely wrong.
As the Washington Times reports:
A body-camera image released by the Columbus Division of Police shortly after the Tuesday shooting indicates that the Los Angeles Lakers star’s interpretation of events may be objectively wrong.
The knife-wielding Ms. Bryant appeared to bear down on another woman in Columbus, Ohio, just as the officer arrived on the scene.
Not only that, James seems to hone in on the fact that the police officer who shot Bryant is white, and Bryant is black. However, he makes no mention that the woman Bryant was attacking was also black. Meaning that the officer used deadly force to save a black woman’s life.
Many Twitter users were dubious of James’ explanation.
The NBA has not said whether James will face any discipline for his tweet.
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Kissing cousins?
More abject ignorance from Bronnie. Yawn.
correction to my statement about correction- meant to say ‘In Addition to your statement- there were only 2 unarmed minorities shot unjustifiably’
ahh
But for his ball skills, he is George Floyd.
The author of this piece should have written "to home in on."
Illiterate journalists!
Regards,
James critical words about Rockets GM Daryl Morey tweeting out support for Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters:
“I don’t want to get in a word or sentence feud with Daryl Morey. But I believe he wasn’t educated on the situation at hand and he spoke,” James said before the Lakers’ preseason game against the Golden State Warriors on Monday at Staples Center. “So many people could have been harmed, not only physically or financially, but emotionally and spiritually. Just be careful what we tweet, what we say and what we do. We do have freedom of speech, but there can be a lot of negative things that come with that too.”
Lebron James - Cop-Killer Wannabe
Time to “Book Him Dano”!
#17. Re “you would think he would be smart enough”. Well, maybe he hit his head on the basket’s rim one too many times.
Otherwise, could he really have been born that stupid and conned all those fans into buying slave-labor made tennis shoes that should cost about $75.00 (minus the profits from human organ harvesting by the factory)?
Halfwit? Maybe "quarterwit", but not half. What you have is the product of society's fascination with sports.
He's a life-long spoiled high school graduate brat, who plays basketball very well and other than that he has no talent. I doubt that he could last longer than a week in a low level job at McDonald's.
I still say that most of today's pro and college spoiled athletes would be in prison if they weren't playing sports for a living.
LeBron won’t face any discipline from NBA because he is black and unaccountable.
And because the NBA is racist itself.
“I’m so damn tired of seeing Black people killed by police, but he’s ok with black people killing black people which will continue to rise when they defund the police and the police sit back and let it happen more often.
LeBron James. Faces so much racism he is paid millions to chase a ball and employs more slaves than the largest plantation just to make his shoes.
I know this is a bit annoying but if you stop and focus on the fact that the nba is fading away and losing more and more viewers every day it should put a smile on your face.
They are losing every night.
Who gives a BLANK what LaBron James says or does?
Hopefully he has a career ending injury very soon.
I’m sure he deleted it right after returning from his humanitarian mission into the hood to ask these animals to stop acting like friggin’ fools.
Why isn’t he “so damned tired” of black people committing acts of violence, resisting arrest and not doing what they’re told by a police officer?
So he Tweets something that creates more hate, then claims it’s being used by others to create more hate? LMFAO!!!!!
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