Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James is speaking out against police brutality after a video of Wisconsin police officers shooting a black man went viral over the weekend.

Addressing the shooting of Jacob Blake, James said the police officers who fired seven rounds into Blake’s back should have used another tactic to subdue him before claiming that black people “are terrified” to live in the United States after a recent wave of videos showed violent interactions between law enforcement and the black community, including footage of George Floyd being pinned to the ground before he died in Minneapolis police custody on Memorial Day.

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