LeBron James explained why he deleted a tweet about the fatal police shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, a 16-year-old Black girl in Columbus, Ohio, following her death on Tuesday.
According to Deadline, the Los Angeles Lakers star posted a photo of the white policeman, Nicholas Reardon, who shot Bryant.
The photo’s caption read, “You’re Next #Accountability,” along with an hourglass emoji. Some took that as a threat, with James, an Ohio native from Akron, later sharing why he decided to take it down.
The actor wrote, “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
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