{"id":461530,"date":"2021-04-29T11:05:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T15:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=461530"},"modified":"2021-04-29T11:44:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T15:44:16","slug":"marshals-deputy-who-mocked-lebron-james-now-under-investigation-for-viral-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marshals-deputy-who-mocked-lebron-james-now-under-investigation-for-viral-video\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Marshal\u2019s Deputy Under Investigation For Criticizing LeBron James"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fmarshals-deputy-who-mocked-lebron-james-now-under-investigation-for-viral-video%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=461530&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--><p>An Idaho marshal\u2019s deputy is under investigation after posting a video online last week mocking NBA star LeBron James for targeting an Ohio officer who fatally shot a teen attempting to stab another.<\/p>\n<p>The Bellevue Marshal\u2019s Office posted a statement to Facebook on Tuesday condemning Deputy Nate Silvester for a TikTok mocking James. The law enforcement officer had filmed a mock disturbance call during which he asked James for permission to intervene in an imaginary knife fight between two black men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bellevue Marshal\u2019s Office is aware of the extreme controversy regarding Deputy Marshal Silvester\u2019s viral TikTok. The statements made do NOT represent the Bellevue Marshal\u2019s Office. The Bellevue Marshal\u2019s Office always demands that our Deputies engage with our citizens in a friendly and professional manner. This is NOT how we expect our Deputies to act on duty or use city time. This is a personnel issue that is being dealt with internally,\u201d the marshal\u2019s office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BMO3100\/posts\/839852243279764\">said<\/a>. \u201cWe would like to thank everyone that took the time to reach out to us. We greatly value our relationship within our wonderful community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video shows Silvester sitting in his squad car while speaking with an imaginary James on his cellphone. Throughout the conversation, Silvester appears to ask a black man to stop attempting to stab another black man. The imaginary James forbids Silvester from intervening in the fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you don\u2019t care if a black person kills another black person, but you do care if a white cop kills a black person, even if he\u2019s doing it to save the life of another black person?\u201d Silvester says in the video. \u201cI mean it doesn\u2019t make a whole lot of sense, but then again you are really good at basketball, so I guess I\u2019ll take your word for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James posted, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lebron-deletes-tweet-attacking-cop-who-saved-black-girl-after-facing-extreme-backlash\">deleted<\/a>, a tweet targeting an Ohio police officer last week after the officer fatally shot a black 16-year-old girl, Ma\u2019Khia Bryant. The officer shot the teen as she lunged at another girl with a knife. Law enforcement experts have said the shoot with \u201clegally justified\u201d as the officer stepped in to prevent a potentially fatal stabbing and protect the life of another.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy first impression is that the officer was legally justified in using deadly force,\u201d Bowling Green State University criminal justice professor Philip Stinson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/experts-makhia-bryant-shooting-legally-justified-officer-likely-saved-one-or-more-lives\">said<\/a> of the officer\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a terribly tragic situation, and my heart goes out to the girl and her family and friends,\u201d he said. \u201cBut from looking at the video, it appears to me that a reasonable police officer would have had a reasonable apprehension of an imminent threat of serious bodily injury or death being imposed against an officer or someone else. That\u2019s the legal standard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James had posted a photo of the officer with the caption \u201cYOU\u2019RE NEXT\u201d and an emoji of an hourglass. The pro athlete added, \u201c#ACCOUNTABILITY.\u201d The tweet was posted after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd during an arrest last year.<\/p>\n<p><em>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 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Idaho marshal\u2019s deputy is under investigation after posting a video online last week mocking NBA star LeBron James for targeting an Ohio officer who fatally shot a teen attempting &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461530","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=461530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}