My sympathy for her family and may justice prevail!”Īfter Silvester’s video went viral, the Bellevue Marshal’s Office distanced itself from his “statements,” saying they “do NOT represent the Bellevue Marshal’s Office.” “ANGER does any of us any good and that includes myself! Gathering all the facts and educating does though! My anger still is here for what happened that lil girl. I am so desperate for more ACCOUNTABILITY,” James said at the time. It’s about the entire system and they always use our words to create more racism. I took the tweet down because it’s being used to create more hate. “I’m so damn tired of seeing Black people killed by police. James later explained why he deleted the tweet. “YOU’RE NEXT #ACCOUNTABILITY,” James wrote with an hourglass emoji. Reardon reportedly shot the Black teenager on April 20, the same day that former officer Derek Chauvin was convicted in the murder of George Floyd. He made the video in response to James’ since-deleted tweet, in which the NBA star posted a photo of Nicholas Reardon, the Columbus, Ohio, police officer who fatally shot 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant after she allegedly lunged at another Black person while holding a knife. Silvester, who has also previously defended Kim Potter on the platform, was in uniform and sitting in his patrol car in the video. “I mean, that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but then again, you’re really good at basketball, so I guess I’ll take your word for it.” “So, you don’t care if a Black person kills another Black person-but you do care if a white cop kills a Black person, even if he’s doing it to save the life of another Black person?” Silvester says in the clip after implying “James” asked about the race of the individuals. In the April video, former Bellevue deputy marshal Nate Silvester pretends to call James for advice on what to do while “witnessing” a Black person stab another Black person. A police officer in Idaho was fired after he went viral for mocking LeBron James’ request for police accountability in a TikTok video.

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