Yet, he doesn’t afford the same courtesy to others in a similar position if it could hurt his bottom line. He tries to “use his platform” as a superstar athlete to “raise awareness” of causes that he holds dear, including pushing the not-founded-in-reality narrative of radical Black Lives Matter activists. LeBron keeps doing this kind of thing, though.
That’s what happens when dumb people tweet dumb things and don’t think of the consequences. He literally posted a photo of a police officer and wrote, “YOU’RE NEXT” - how did he think the aggressive anti-police activists would take it? Perhaps LeBron was simply calling for the prosecution of the police officer, but it could easily have been taken as a threat. The circumstances surrounding it are irrelevant to him, it seems. He’s said as much after the truly awful killing of Ahmaud Arbery, which did seem to be racially motivated.Īpparently, to LeBron, the incident in Columbus wasn’t a police officer protecting the life of a black girl being threatened with a knife-wielding assailant - who also happened to be black - this was just another case of a white cop “literally hunting” a black person when she stepped foot outside her home. Presumably, LeBron was outraged because he’s bought into the Black Lives Matter narrative that police officers are looking for opportunities to kill black people in America.
The tweet remained on the platform for a couple of hours and garnered over 40,000 likes before he was shamed into taking it down. He put it out there for everyone to see with the caption, “YOU’RE NEXT #ACCOUNTABILITY” and an hourglass emoji. ClashDaily has covered the face of the officer, but LeBron did not. Here’s a screenshot of the now-deleted tweet that he posted to his 50 million Twitter followers. If he hadn’t acted, the other girl could have been killed or, at the very least, seriously injured. While it’s absolutely tragic that a 16-year old girl is dead, it’s important to note that Bryant had just shoved one girl down and had attacked another girl, and was raising a knife while pinning her against a car when the officer opened fire. On Wednesday, LeBron James posted a photo of the officer that fired the shots in an officer-involved incident in Columbus, Ohio, that killed 16-year old Ma’Khai Bryant. Meanwhile, the 45th President of the United States was permanently suspended for less audacious tweets. Twitter did nothing after the NBA superstar posted a threatening tweet that included an identifying photo of the police officer that fired the shots that killed Ma’Khai Bryant.
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