Shaun King wants justice for vandalized George Floyd statue—a year ago he demanded Jesus statues be torn down

Activists and creator Shaun King has a message for those that vandalized a George Floyd statue in Brooklyn, New York. He wants justice for the George Floyd statue, and he’ll do every thing he can to get it.

It was only a year ago that King was calling for statues to be pulled down within the title of social justice, proclaiming totally that the tearing down of statues as a type of political speech was a crucial and laudable act.

Now that the spray paint is being utilized by his political opposition, King is utilizing his Twitter attain to try to seek out those that spray painted George Floyd’s Brooklyn bust and produce them to justice, doubtless with those self same police he sought to defund.

He shared police video, alongside together with his notation of the license plate quantity. He posted footage from his pal, who “saw these white men pull up in the middle of a Black neighborhood in the middle of the night and knew something was off.”

King would not consider that this vandalism was a part of a proper to free speech in any respect, it appears. But a year ago, he referred to as for the destruction of statues of “white Jesus.”

What King mentioned was that he thinks statues of “the white European they claim is Jesus” to be torn down as a result of “they are a form of white supremacy” and so they “always have been.”

He mentioned that “all murals and stained glass windows of white Jesus and his European mother, and their white friends should also come down,” saying that they “are a gross form of white supremacy.” These, he mentioned, “are a gross form of white supremacy.”

One year ago, King referred to as for the identical sort of political motion that he now wants to be prosecuted.