The mother of murdered Georgia jogger Ahmaud Arbery has angrily accused Kanye West of helping “support and legalize extremist behavior.” “White Lives Matter” fashion stunt.
Wanda Cooper-Jones told Rolling Stone That she feels “extremely disappointed” with the rapper, who privately supported her family in 2020 after her 25-year-old son was framed and hacked to death by three white men.
These T-Shirt Stunts – How To Reveal What They Said Black Lives Matter was a “scam” — “flies straight in the face”, which he previously told his family, Arbery’s mother told Rock Mag in a statement through her attorney, Lee Merritt.
“As a result of his performance, ‘White Lives Matter’ began to trend in the US, which would direct support and legitimize extremist behavior,” the statement said.
This extremism is very much “like the behavior that took her son’s life,” the statement insisted, referring to Arbery’s killers, who were also all Convicted of federal hate crimes,
“This ridicule of the Black Lives Matter movement and now some kind of hoax flies straight in the face as a condemnation of the movement” that you told Cooper-Jones, Merritt said.
When shooter Travis McMichael (left), his father Gregory McMichael and their neighbor William “Roddy” Bryan (right) chase after him, Arbery’s mother accused Kanye of legitimizing extremism “like that behavior” that took his son’s life.
After a 25-year-old unarmed jogger was chased and hacked by white men, Brian filmed the harrowing moment in which Arbery was shot and killed.
Arbery’s shocking murder was one of a series that sparked Black Lives Matter protests that Kanye West called a “scam” this week.
Her statement added that West’s “White Lives Matter” stunt is “confusing” to Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, because it “flies straight in the face” that she gives her private support. Had said.
“It’s confusing for her” and “confusing for families to get her support privately but publicly to set us all back,” the lawyer said.
Merritt confirmed that West’s support includes money for Arbery’s family, as well as Jemel Roberson, a black security guard who was fatally shot by a cop in 2018. He did not disclose the amount.
Rolling Stone said the star paid him, as well as the families of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, and the struggling businesses in his hometown of Chicago a total of at least $2 million.
Ben Crump, a civil rights attorney representing the families of Floyd and Taylor, did not respond to the magazine’s requests for comment.
Arbery was shot by Travis McMichael, who was accompanied by his father, Gregory McMichael, as they followed him as he fled a mostly white neighborhood near Brunswick on February 23, 2020.
The father and son as well as their neighbor, William “Roddy” Bryan – who filmed the fatal confrontation – were all convicted of murder and subsequent hate crimes.