{"id":442735,"date":"2021-04-22T15:35:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T19:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=442735"},"modified":"2021-04-22T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T19:36:00","slug":"flashback-lebron-james-warned-about-the-impacts-of-what-we-tweet-back-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-lebron-james-warned-about-the-impacts-of-what-we-tweet-back-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: LeBron James Warned About The Impacts Of \u2018What We Tweet\u2019 Back In 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflashback-lebron-james-warned-about-the-impacts-of-what-we-tweet-back-in-2019%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=442735&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3311.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>NBA star LeBron James came under fire on Wednesday when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lebron-james-posts-photo-of-cop-who-protected-black-girl-from-being-stabbed-youre-next\">tweeted<\/a> \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lebron-deletes-tweet-attacking-cop-who-saved-black-girl-after-facing-extreme-backlash\">deleted<\/a> \u2014 a picture of the white Columbus, Ohio police officer who shot and killed 16-year-old Ma\u2019Khia Bryant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYOU\u2019RE NEXT. #ACCOUNTABILITY,\u201d he tweeted with an hourglass emoji.<\/p>\n<p>After receiving widespread pushback from users on Twitter, James followed up with two additional tweets, attempting to explain his initial post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cANGER does any of us any good and that includes myself!\u201d James tweeted in the first follow-up. \u201cGathering all the facts and educating does though! My anger still is here for what happened that lil girl. My sympathy for her family and may justice prevail!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.5035460992908\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ANGER does any of us any good and that includes myself! Gathering all the facts and educating does though! My anger still is here for what happened that lil girl. My sympathy for her family and may justice prevail! \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffe\u270a\ud83c\udffe\ud83e\udd0e\ud83d\udc51<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LeBron James (@KingJames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingJames\/status\/1385011051087810561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so damn tired of seeing Black people killed by police,\u201d the NBA player said in the second follow-up tweet. \u201cI took the tweet down because its being used to create more hate -This isn\u2019t about one officer.\u00a0\u00a0it\u2019s about the entire system and they always use our words to create more racism. I am so desperate for more ACCOUNTABILITY.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.578313253012\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m so damn tired of seeing Black people killed by police.\u00a0I took the tweet down because its being used to create more hate -This isn\u2019t about one officer.\u00a0\u00a0it\u2019s about the entire system and they always use our words to create more racism. I am so desperate for more ACCOUNTABILITY<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LeBron James (@KingJames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingJames\/status\/1385013333007343619?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The problem, however, is James failed to acknowledge\u00a0Bryant was wielding a knife at another teenager when the officer arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The officer responded to a 911 call from a distressed individual saying multiple women were attempting to stab her, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/here-are-three-important-things-the-media-wont-tell-you-about-the-makhia-bryant-case\">The Daily Wire<\/a> previously reported. Bodycam footage from the incident showed officers arriving to find Bryant wielding a knife at two girls, at which point the responding officer stepped in and fired his service weapon as Bryant appeared to be attempting to stab one of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe came at her with a knife,\u201d an officer said in the video.<\/p>\n<p>Bryant was taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition, where she was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Even though James\u2019 tweets were tone-deaf, the basketball player seemed to forget something he said in 2019: that Americans \u2013 especially celebrities \u2013 need to watch what they say on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all talk about this freedom of speech. Yes, we all do have freedom of speech, but at times, there are ramifications for the negative that can happen when you\u2019re not thinking about others, when you only think about yourself,\u201d James said in an interview at the time.<\/p>\n<p>He was referring to a tweet Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey posted in support of Hong Kongers demanding autonomy from China.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.5111111111111\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reminder that this was the extent of Daryl Morey&#8217;s tweet <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hmSw3M1TaL\">pic.twitter.com\/hmSw3M1TaL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peterjhasson\/status\/1183925369449132032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to James, Morey \u201cwasn\u2019t educated\u201d on what was taking place in China and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to get into a word or a sentence feud with Daryl, with Daryl Morey, but I believe he wasn\u2019t educated on the situation at hand and he spoke. So many people could have been harmed, not only financially but physically, emotionally, spiritually,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>James did, however, make one thing clear: freedom of speech is a powerful tool that can bring \u201ca lot of negative\u201d along with it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo just be careful what we tweet, what we say, what we do, even though, yes, we do got freedom of speech, there can be a lot of negative that comes with it too,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.9087136929461\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LeBron James rips Daryl Morey, says Morey was uneducated. Says, \u201cWe do have freedom of speech, but there can be a lot of negatives that come with that too.\u201d Really. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZTw6a3FZ5n\">pic.twitter.com\/ZTw6a3FZ5n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClayTravis\/status\/1183921775647875072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Where was LeBron\u2019s \u201ccare\u201d when he sent his initial tweet targeting the officer? He clearly\u00a0<em>knew\u00a0<\/em>he had clout, especially with supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement, when he sent the tweet. His goal was to use his influence to reach NBA fans \u2013 and Americans as a whole \u2013 when he made it known the officer would be \u201cnext\u201d to be prosecuted. There\u2019s no way he posted those tweets to his almost 50 <em>million\u00a0<\/em>followers without knowing he would ruffle feathers.<\/p>\n<p>What James said in 2019 applies to the Ma\u2019Khia Bryant situation as well. Blue check marks on Twitter are sounding off on how wrong the officer was for using lethal force. They paint Bryant as a \u201cpeaceful\u201d 16-year-old who loved to do her hair and makeup, but they conveniently leave out the most important piece of the story: that she was going after another teenager\u2026 <em>with a knife.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These reporters, athletes, activists, and other influential people are talking about the Ma\u2019Khia Bryant case but they\u2019re not providing <em>all\u00a0<\/em>the facts surrounding the case. They\u2019re not using their freedom of speech in an informed way. And, the result of that, is there\u2019s a \u201cnegative\u201d that James warned about. In this case, an officer is being targeted in an arguably justifiable shooting. And it\u2019s likely impacting the cop not just \u201cfinancially but physically, emotionally, spiritually.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Beth Baumann is a Political Reporter and Editor at The Daily Wire. Follow her on Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eb454\">@eb454<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBA star LeBron James came under fire on Wednesday when he tweeted \u2014 and deleted \u2014 a picture of the white Columbus, Ohio police officer who shot and killed 16-year-old &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276490,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3311.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Flashback: LeBron James Warned About The Impacts Of \u2018What We Tweet\u2019 Back In 2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3311.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Flashback: LeBron James Warned About The Impacts Of \u2018What We Tweet\u2019 Back In 2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}