A small-town police chief is letting Kanye West know that being a “rock” superstar is not, in fact, like being a law enforcement officer or “war.”
Brimfield, Ohio Chief of Police David Oliver posted an open letter to West on his department’s Facebook page Thursday, responding to an interview in which the artist said he “literally” puts his life on the line when he performs the songs “Coldest Winter” and “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” live atop a prop ‘mountain.’
“That mountain goes really, really high, and if I slipped … you never know,” West said in an interview with Saturday Night Online. “And I think about it. I think about my family and I’m like, ‘Wow, this is like, you know, this is like being a police officer or something, or like war or something.’”
Oliver was having none of it. After sarcastically thanking West for putting his “life on the line for all of us every day,” the police chief invited West to join the military and deploy overseas for some perspective.
“Your line of thinking is part of the problem in the world today….which include(s) entertainers thinking they are something more than just entertainers,” Oliver wrote. “I know it is supply and demand and the demand for your services is high. I get economics. What I do not get is you EVER comparing what you do for a living to our heroic military members, who are always in harm’s way… and my brother and sister police officers who have to go to work carrying weapons and wearing a bullet-proof vest to protect themselves.”
Read the full letter from Chief Oliver here.
(h/t Good Morning America)
