Cardi B, Justin Bieber, Ava DuVernay and more celebrities are speaking up about George Floyd, a black man who was killed by a white police officer.
Celebrities are joining the chorus of thousands of protesters demanding justice for George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died in police custody Monday after a white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck.
The horrifying bystander video of Floyd's death spread quickly on social media earlier in the day, showing the officer driving his knee into Floyd's neck as the handcuffed man repeatedly says he can't breathe. Four officers involved in the incident have been fired, and an attorney representing Floyd's family, Ben Crump, has called for their arrests. Police have not identified the officers, but attorney Tom Kelly said he was representing Derek Chauvin, the officer seen with his knee on Floyd's neck. Stars are sharing their emotions about the incident, including Cardi B, who took to her various social media accounts to speak up. "Not three ,not five but almost 15 minutes of a cop knees on a mans neck while handcuffed," she tweeted."It’s so sickening.Things have to change !!""Enough is enough! What will it take ? A civil war ? A new president? Violent riots ? It’s tired ! I’m tired !" she wrote."The country is tired !You don’t put fear in people when you do this you just show how coward YOU ARE ! And how America is really not the land of the free !""THIS MUST STOP," he wrote."this makes me absolutely sick. This makes me angry this man DIED. This makes me sad. Racism is evil We need to use our voice! Please people. I’m sorry GEORGE FLOYD" Beyoncé paid tribute to Floyd on her website by sharing a photo and a message:"Rest in power George Floyd.""How is this possible again??George Floyd said he couldn’t breathe. Said his neck hurt. Said everything hurts. He wasn’t armed. How does this happen???? Again???" she wrote."I apologize to everyone expecting to see me on Good Morning America today, but after the events in Minnesota with George Floyd I’m in no mood to tell America, good morning," he tweeted."You deserved your breath, your dignity, your life. Not to die in the street, murdered by a white cop’s knee on your neck," she wrote. "You deserve our tears, our prayers, our rage, our action. We must act - for you - and for all of those were no cameras are present. We must. #GeorgeFloyd""This just burns. Seems to be a never ending cycle. The murderers need to be charged severely," he tweeted. "Even in the face of death this man was given zero empathy. #RIPGeorgeFloyd #BlackLivesMatter #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd""#justiceforGeorgeFloyd text FLOYD to 55156 @colorofchange to put pressure on DA Mike Freeman to charge and arrest these officers call 612-348-5550 and please sign the @change petition," she tweeted with a link to the petition. "Police fire tear gas into a peaceful protest of George Floyd’s murder but stood like the Queen’s Guard when white w guns storm the state capitol protesting HAVING 2 WEAR A MASK IN A PANDEMIC," she tweeted."We live in 2 America’s & if this doesn’t make it clear ur a dummy" Halsey tweeted,"rest in power #GeorgeFloyd an unarmed black man who was murdered by a police officer ON CAMERA. this system is failing the people it should protect. where is the accountability?" Taylor Swift shared a photo of Floyd on her Instagram Stories with the hashtag #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd. Diddy shared an image of Floyd's name with a praying hands emoji to his Instagram. He added a heartbreak emoji in his caption."Most of you come to my page for happy, uplifting and positive content. But tonight, my heart is wrecked over the racial injustice that has been happening for ages and continues to happen today. I can’t comprehend it," she wrote."I couldn’t watch the video the first time through. I forced myself to watch a second time to the end so my heart would be ripped open raw with tears, sorrow, empathy and anger." She continued,"I’m reading your posts on how I can help. I don’t know how powerful sharing on Instagram is, but I won’t be silent. We are one race, the human race. I pray for this country and the sin in all of us. I pray for God’s mercy. I pray for justice." Jamie Foxx shared an image of the kneeling cop alongside a photo of Colin Kaepernick kneeling in protest.Cynthia Erivo shared an IGTV of her singing Donny Hathaway's"Someday We'll All Be Free." "When I don’t have words I sing, when my heart hurts I sing, to watch yet another black body cut down hurt so I sing," she captioned the video. Kim Kardashian West shared an illustration of Floyd along with a heartbreak emoji and the hashtag #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd.— Kim Kardashian West May 27, 2020 Viola Davis wrote a powerful message on her Instagram. "This is what it means to be Black in America. Tried. Convicted. Killed for being Black. We are dictated by hundreds of years of policies that have restricted our very existence and still have to continue to face modern day lynchings," she wrote. "Here's the thing......America will never be great until we can figure out a way for it to work for EVERYBODY!!! ....... RIP George Floyd""I haven't slept since I saw this on the 7 p.m. CNN segment last night. Literally: I have not closed my eyes. This is genocide; this is lynching without a rope. This is murder," he wrote."I am asking all decent and good people to call the mayor of Minneapolis 612 673 2100. Please voice your outcries and leave a voicemail for the mayor who fired the 4 satanic evils. We shall overcome. But we have to keep overcomingMandy Moore called the video of the incident"abhorrent" on Instagram. "He should be alive. Getting killed by the police is the 6th leading cause of death of young black men in this country," she wrote before addressing her"white friends" directly. "We can’t let our discomfort, ego, or belief that this work doesn’t include us, prevent us from acknowledging our privilege and that we have the burden of dismantling white supremacy. We do. We can not be complacent. We can not be silent. We need to have this conversation with our families and friend and coworkers. Let’s turn outrage into action.""I can still see the killer with his hands in his pocket and knee on the neck of a handcuffed black man🙏🏿rest in peace 🙏🏿 #georgefloyd and I hate him and all the cops that was there for it," he continued. Zoe Kravitz also wrote on Instagram:"GEORGE FLOYD my heart breaks for you and your family. #policebrutality needs to stop. #sayhisname"More: 'Jeopardy!' contestant slammed after mistaking Janet Jackson for Ariana Grande in answerThis article originally appeared on USA TODAY: George Floyd death: Kim Kardashian, Cardi B and more celebrities react
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