LeBron James is widely known as “King James” for what he has done on the court since entering the NBA. However, the last few days, his name has been drug through the mud, which stems from a tweet James sent following the death of Ma’Khia Bryant, a 16-year-old Black girl who was shot by a white police officer in Columbus, Ohio.
Bryant was shot four times by police around the same time a guilty verdict was read in the Derek Chauvin trial in Minneapolis for the 2020 murder of George Floyd.
After Bryant’s shooting death, James took to Twitter and posted a photo of officer Nicholas Reardon, writing “YOU’RE NEXT #ACCOUNTABILITY,” along with an hourglass emoji.
James later deleted the tweet, but the damage was done.
Nate Silvester, an officer with the Marshal’s Office in Bellevue, Idaho, has been going insanely viral over the past days after he mocked James in a TikTok video that has drawn nearly 2.5 million views so far.
“Dispatch, I’ve arrived at that disturbance. Will you have LeBron call my cellphone right away please? Thank you,” Silvester says.
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Silvester then says “stop stabbing him.”
“LeBron, hey, yeah it’s me again,” Silvester says. “Listen, I’m out here at this disturbance call and there’s a guy trying to stab another guy with a knife. What do you think I should do?”
“Okay, well, they’re both Black. One guy is trying to stab another guy with a knife,” Silvester says. “Deadly force is completely justified.”
Silvester continues:
“So, you don’t care if a Black person kills another Black person—but you do care if a white cop kills a black person, even if he’s doing it to save the life of another black person?” the officer asks. “I mean, that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but then again, you’re really good at basketball so I guess I’ll take your word for it.”
He ended it by saying “Michael Jordan’s the GOAT.”
