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An Idaho cop who mocked LeBron James in a viral Tik Tok video has been suspended without pay and is now under investigation, with many expecting him to lose his job.
The controversy started when Nate Silvester responded to the basketball star’s infamous deleted tweet where he wrote, “You’re next. #Accountability,” alongside a photo of Nicholas Reardon, the officer who shot Ma’Khia Bryant.
Bryant’s death became a rallying point for Black Lives Matter despite the fact that she was literally attempting to stab two other African-American women to death with a knife before Reardon intervened with deadly force.
Silvester responded to LeBron’s awful take on the incident by creating a skit where he arrives at the scene of a violent crime taking place and then calls dispatch.
“Dispatch, I’ve arrived at that disturbance. Will you have LeBron call my cell phone right away, please? Thank you,” states Silvester while telling those involved in the altercation to hold on while LeBron calls back.
“LeBron, hey, yeah, it’s me again,” Silvester states. “Listen, I’m out here at this disturbance call and there’s a guy trying to stab another guy with a knife. What do you think I should do?”Silvester tells LeBron the assailants are both black and that “deadly force is completely justified.”
“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? 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,” says Silvester.
After the video received millions of views and network news attention, the mayor of Bellevue revealed that Silvester was under investigation after a private citizen filed a complaint against him.
Silvester’s own police department also wasted no time in throwing him under the bus.
“The Bellevue Marshal’s Office is aware of the extreme controversy regarding...
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One diagnostic feature of severely mentally ill people is that they lack a sense of humor; a second is that they have an overwhelming need for revenge when they feel that people are laughing at them.
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