A law enforcement officer has gone viral for a TikTok video mocking LeBron James after the NBA superstar targeted an Ohio police officer in a since-deleted tweet.
“Dispatch, I’ve arrived at that disturbance. Will you have LeBron call my cellphone right away, please? Thank you,” an officer in the Bellevue, Idaho, Marshal’s Office, Nate Silvester, says in the video, pretending to respond to an emergency in which fictional people are stabbing each other.
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Silvester then rolls down his car’s window and tells a fictional person to put down a knife before he gets back on his phone and pretends to talk to James.
“LeBron, hey, yeah, it’s me again,” Silvester says. “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?”
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“Why does that matter?” he then says.
“OK, well, they’re both black. One guy is trying to stab another guy with a knife,” Silvester says. “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?” the officer asks. “I mean, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but then again, you are really good at basketball, so I guess I’ll take your word for it.”
“Michael Jordan’s the GOAT,” Silvester says, referring to the acronym “Greatest Of All Time.”
The video, which has been viewed millions of times, comes after James tweeted a photo last Wednesday of Ohio police officer Nicholas Reardon, who shot Ma’Khia Bryant after she charged at two people with a knife, with the caption, “YOU’RE NEXT #ACCOUNTABILITY.”
A video of the incident appears to show that Reardon stopped Bryant moments before she stabbed an unidentified female, but James and others have questioned his actions.
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James soon deleted the tweet amid an eruption of criticism for “inciting violence” at a time when riots have reached a powder-keg situation across the country.
“I’m so damn tired of seeing Black people killed by police. I took the tweet down because its being used to create more hate — This isn’t about one officer. it’s about the entire system and they always use our words to create more racism. I am so desperate for more ACCOUNTABILITY,” he said in a follow-up tweet.
