Following the recent murders of two New York City police officers over the weekend, The Game decided to take to Instagram to make a controversial statement that upset many.
The recently named One Shot judge and LA native published a picture of a headline that recapped the shooting with the following caption:
“I guess y’all ‘can’t breathe’ either #RIPEricGarner #AllLivesMatter #ShitHasToChange #Now.
The Game later posted another picture, this time of three pro-police protestors wearing shirts that read:
“I can breathe”, and claimed that these were the targets of his original post.“The comment in my last post was a DIRECT RESPONSE to the picture above: I didn’t say it was cool that 2 cops were murdered senselessly while sitting in their car. These weren’t the cop(s) that killed ERIC GARNER so it wasn’t necessary they die in that manner the same as it wasn’t AT ALL necessary ERIC GARNER die in the way he did. My comment also suggested that #AllLivesMatter & #ShitNeedsToChangeNow but you simple minded fucks skipped right over the real message to pull whatever negativity you could from my post…As expected. One thing about me is, I’m ME. I’m not running from my views or opinions & I’m standing firm on anything I say.. So while all of you trying to find the HATE in my post, there is NONE. What there is…is an opinion of a man that believes the deaths of innocent people are never OKAY. Never has been !!! It just so happens, that I’m BLACK.”
The Game isn’t the first One Shot judge to air his beliefs publicly on the tragic death of Eric Garner. KXNG CROOKED, f.k.a Crooked I, released his “I Can’t Breathe” track earlier this month as a Billboard exclusive and it blew up online all across the globe following the grand jury’s decision not to indict the officers responsible for his death.
Other One Shot judges such as The RZA, DJ Khaled and T.I have also taken to social media to voice their beliefs on the incident. Controversy already seems to be brewing at the One Shot TV show. Log on to One Shot at www.myoneshot.tv where contestants can win $100,000 and a lucrative recording contract with Mike Smith and Jonathan Hay’s SMH Records.
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