Not because of the backlash, but because of copyright issues.
” released July 14, previously contained a news clip from Fox 5 Atlanta which depicted a protest in 2020 during the height of the BLM movement ignited by the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. According the musician’s label, BBR Music Group, the protest footage was removed due to a copyright claim. “The video footage was edited due to third party copyright clearance issues,” BBR said in a statement to the Washington.
Critics called the song and its accompanying visuals violent and pro-lynching — the project was filmed outside the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee, the same location where Henry Choate, a Black 18-year-old, was lynched by a white mob after being falsely accused of raping a 16-year-old white girl in 1927, while the lyrics read like a threat to demonstrators when juxtaposed with the now-removed protest images.
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