NBA icon LeBron James posted a tweet Wednesday condemning Columbus Police Officer Nicholas Reardon, who shot and killed a 16-year-old black girl, who was attacking someone with a knife. “YOU’RE NEXT #ACCOUNTABILITY,” he tweeted, alongside a picture of the officer. James deleted the tweet hours later saying the message was “being used to create more hate.”
James drew the ire of Republican lawmakers including Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), who claimed that the tweet incites violence against the Columbus officer. “This is disgraceful and dangerous,” the senator wrote in a statement Wednesday. “Is the NBA okay with this? Is Twitter?”
After deleting his initial tweet, LeBron wrote a follow-up message.
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