Fundraiser for Cop Suspended After Mocking LeBron James on TikTok Tops $380K
On 5/3/21 at 1:07 PM EDT
Hundreds of thousands of fundraiser dollars have poured in for an Idaho deputy marshal who was reportedly suspended after his TikTok video mocked NBA superstar LeBron James and provoked national debate about law enforcement s use of deadly force.
Bellevue Deputy Marshal Nate Silvester, using his @nateswildn TikTok account, posted a video last week in which he pretended to call the Los Angeles Lakers player to discuss a stabbing incident in progress. The video, which has since been viewed 4 million times, was prompted by James tweeted demand for accountability from police following the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Ma Khia Bryant, who was holding a knife when Columbus, Ohio, officers responded on April 20.
Idaho police officer raises $300k after mocking LeBron James
A GoFundMe campaign for Nate Silvester has reached more than half of its $500,000 goal
Lebron James and the fatal shooting of
Ma’Khia Bryant by Columbus, Ohio police, an Idaho officer has raised over $300k on GoFundMe.
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Nate Silvester, a police officer in Bellevue, Idaho, recorded the video titled “here we go again” which has garnered over 5 million views.
Spongebob played in the background of the video.
“Excuse me, sir, can you put the knife down please, sir,” he said outloud. Nobody else appeared in the video.
He then pretended to call James and asked, “What do you think I should do?” Silvester continued to set-up a fictional scenario mirroring the alleged circumstances surrounding Bryant’s death.
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A GoFundMe page for an Idaho police officer who went viral mocking LeBron James has raised over $200,000.
Police officer Nate Silvester was
suspended for posting the viral video mocking the NBA superstar s response to the shooting death of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant earlier this month, and the
“The recent viral TikTok video of a cop calling out Lebron James has cost the cop, my best friend in the world, Officer Nate Silvester a suspension without pay,” the page’s organizer, Gannon Ward, wrote. “He’s still got his job for now, but apparently the town where he polices didn’t find his TikTok as amazingly comical, and accurate as the 4.5 million viewers did, including some major news networks.”