As Ferguson Riots Rage, Celebs Take To Twitter And Fan The Flames
The news that police officer Darren Wilson will not face charges for shooting unarmed teenager Michael Brown has divided America and resulted in the Ferguson riots. It’s also caused a difference of opinion among celebrities worldwide.
As always, keen to make their thoughts known and share their stance with a waiting world, a host of celebrities have taken to Twitter to express their opinions on the Ferguson verdict.
Leading the charge is a reflective Kate Perry with a thoughtful tweet which reads, “Sending my prayers to Ferguson & praying for an equal America.”
In a similar vein, “Happy” hitmaker Pharrell Williams has expressed his disappointment that police officer Wilson will not be charged with any crime, but has called on people to keep a cool head and not protest against violence with violence.
Meanwhile Salon has openly accused the likes of Ann Coulter, Ted Nugent and Brit Hume as race-baiting and competing for the grossest Darren Wilson tweet.
With a statement which reads, “You can always count on the right to show off its raging, uncontrolled self on Twitter, Salon goes on to list the ‘offending’ tweets, that in their eyes, ‘horrify everyone.’
Ted Nugent is first out of the blocks with, “Darren Wilson did good. Michael Brown did bad. Justice is served.”
Closely followed by a patriotic John Nolte who claims, “Everyday Americans serve justice in grand juries while elite media only serves up mob justice based on lies.”
Not missing the opportunity to use the Ferguson riots to have a dig at the liberal left, Laura Ingraham weighs in with, “Hardcore leftists’ don’t really give a rip about facts. Goal is and has always been to undermine civil society, stoke unrest, chaos.”
Meanwhile, Melissa Clouthier keeps it simple by tweeting, “Dear liberal media, you are the problem again. Before using the Ferguson riots to have a go at the president and announce that, “Obama has made everything, including race relations, worse. Sickening.”
Elsewhere Briti Hume complains, “Liberals pride themselves on their supposed adherence to facts, but can’t accept them in Ferguson.”
The Daily Mail reported that, a jury of seven men and five women delivered the verdict that Wilson, a white officer, should not be indicted for shooting the black teen six times on August 9. Michael Brown’s mother collapsed in tears as the verdict was announced.
LeBron James expressed his dismay at the Ferguson verdict by posting a poignant illustration of Michael Brown arm in arm with Trayvon Brown, and wrote, “As a society how do we do better and stop things like this happening time after time!!”
Michael Rodriguez chose to let a picture do the talking and posted a snap of the rioters without any further comment.
Cher was quick to add that, “Violence against businesses of this community is a crime! What about children and old people who live there? Market burned, looting, fires, WTF.”
Last but not least, Rihanna made her point by posting two pictures, the first was simply captioned ‘facts.’
And the second was a quote by John Lennon.
