Celebrities Take To Twitter Over Dropped Freddie Gray Charges
It didn’t take long for many to react after learning the charges against the three remaining officers in the Freddie Gray trial would be dropped.
The news comes after the back-to-back brutal killings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La., and Philando Castile in Minnesota. Many in film, music and entertainment’s most vocal artists took to Twitter to express their outrage and disappointment over the dropped charges.
….ruled a homicide, with no murderer #FreddieGray
— solange knowles (@solangeknowles) July 27, 2016
If #AllLivesMatter then why aren’t you out here with us?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …………. #FreddieGray
— jesseWilliams. (@iJesseWilliams) July 27, 2016
If “law enforcement” isn’t accountable for the easily verifiable homicide of #FreddieGray, then what’s the point of “law” or a constitution?
— jesseWilliams. (@iJesseWilliams) July 27, 2016
Freddie Gray, 25, died in April 2015 from sustaining neck injuries while being transported in a police van. Gray’s death further cemented the mistrust African-Americans have towards the police and caused several days of uprising in Baltimore.
Celebrities aside, Twitter’s general consensus was of disappointment, hurt and outrage.
This #FreddieGray news reminds me of Zora Neale Huston’s quote: “If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
— Jozen C. (@jozenc) July 27, 2016
Republicans, ‘conservative Christians,’ #BlueLivesMatter folk, you can’t spare an ounce of compassion or empathy for #FreddieGray? Not one?
— Jeffrey Wright (@jfreewright) July 27, 2016
The police get away wit murder. #freddiegray
— YG (@YG) July 27, 2016
#FreddieGray death ruled a homicide but the cop isn’t being charged. So someone murdered him but not the guy who murdered him?
— Ricky Smith (@Rickonia) July 18, 2016
