The protests across the United States were not only in response to George Floyd‘s death but also Breonna Taylor‘s death, Tony McDade‘s death, Ahmaud Arbery‘s death and so many others in recent months.
Among the celebrities protesting earlier in the week and over the weekend include Ariana Grande, Jamie Foxx, Halsey, Michael B. Jordan, Timothée Chalamet, Kendrick Sampson, Kehlani and countless others.
On Friday, Foxx attended the Minneapolis press conference and spoke to the crowd about Floyd’s death—which occurred after a Minneapolis police officer pinned him down and kneeled on his neck, while three other officers stood by and did nothing.
In video footage captured by bystanders, Floyd told the officers that he couldn’t breathe, and moments later he passed away.
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Celebrities Speak Out in Response to George Floyd’s Death
Later he revealed on Twitter that he and Insecure star Kendrick Sampson had been shot at by cops. “LAPD shot me with a projectile when nobody was doing anything other than just standing there,” Matt explained on Twitter. “They did way worse to the POC and especially Black folx there.”
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JAMIE FOXX
“I think that what you saw on television, to watch this man plead for his life,” Foxx said at Minneapolis press conference on Friday. “As I sit with my two daughters, my nephews .. what it does is, it over-complicates everything as a black man trying to tell his son or his daughter how to function in life. Even the things that we’ve taught them don’t seem to work.”
KENDRICK SAMPSON
The Insecure star attended protests in Los Angeles and shared that he had been shot with rubber bullets. “Glad y’all witnessed this. Esp the video of them actually targeting us,” the actor said, after the incident was captured on his IG Live and CNN’s cameras. “He didn’t try to ricochet the bullets of the ground – one tactic – he pointed the gun DIRECTLY AT ME,” Kendrick added. “I actually got hit 7 times with rubber bullets and many with batons. My boy has stitches.”
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ARIANA GRANDE, DALTON GOMEZ & DOUG MIDDLEBROOK
Accompanied by her boyfriend Dalton Gomez and friend Doug Middlebrook, the pop star shared images of the protest she attended over the weekend. “hours and miles of peaceful protesting yesterday that got little to no coverage,” she wrote. “all throughout beverly hills and west hollywood we chanted, people beeped and cheered along. we were passionate, we were loud, we were loving. cover this too please.”
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