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Earlier this week, the 74-year-old entertainer shared a tweet while watching the trial of
Derek Chauvin, the police officer who killed
George Floyd last May in Minneapolis, Minn.
“Was talking With Mom & She Said ‘I Watched Trial Of Policeman Who Killed George Floyd,& Cried’. I Said ‘Mom, I Know This Is Gonna Sound CRAZY,But.. I Kept Thinking …..Maybe If I’d Been There,…I Could’ve Helped”
Cher tweeted.
Cher for saying she “could’ve helped”
George if she was there.
“I love you cher but your white savior complex is showing,” one person tweeted, while another wrote, “This is significantly underplaying what witnesses who testified TRIED to do to stop his death. There have been MULTIPLE testimonies of everyone from a firefighter to an MMA fighter to a senior man who attempted to diffuse the situation. Singing songs doesn’t erase racism, Cher.”
Cher gets an earful from Twitter after she tweets about George Floyd
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Cher gets an earful from Twitter after she tweets about George Floyd
Pop icon Cher has landed in a bit of trouble after a tweet about George Floyd and the Derek Chauvin murder trial.
The singer turned to Twitter and said that had she been in Minneapolis at the time of Floyd’s death, she could have helped save him.
“Was talking With Mom & She Said ‘I Watched Trial Of Policeman Who Killed George Floyd,& Cried. I Said ‘Mom,I Know This Is Gonna Sound CRAZY,But.. I Kept Thinking …..Maybe If I’d Been There,…I Could’ve Helped,” she wrote/
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