One police officer went viral after roundly mocking NBA superstar LeBron James for sharing a photo of the police officer at the center of a shooting of a knife-wielding 16-year-old girl.
The young shooting victim, Ma’Khia Bryant, was reportedly trying to stab others during an incident in Ohio last week, which the teen’s foster mother said stemmed from a dispute surrounding housework.
What are the details?
According to Newsweek, the video amassed more than 2.5 million views on video-sharing platform TikTok alone as of Sunday.
In the video, Officer Nate Silvester of the Marshal’s Office in Bellevue, Idaho, was seen mocking the basketball player while pretending to respond to calls from dispatch by saying that he needs to conference with James before he acts on calls.
The Post Millennial also shared the video on Twitter, where it has received 158,000 views at the time of this reporting, captioning it, “A policeman calls LeBron for advice in hilarious viral video[.]”
In the video, Silvester can be seen arriving at a fictional scene and calling dispatch for advice.
“Dispatch, I’ve arrived at that disturbance,” he says. “Will you have LeBron call my cellphone right away, please? Thank you.”
While awaiting the call from “LeBron,” Silvester can be heard telling an off-screen person to “put down that knife.”
“Stop stabbing him,” Silvester commands.
“LeBron” returns Silvester’s call, and the officer says, “LeBron, hey, yeah, it’s me again. 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?”
After a pause in the fake conversation, Silvester asks, “Why does that matter?”
“OK, well, they’re both black,” he continues. “One guy is trying to stab another guy with a knife. Deadly force is completely justified.”
After another pause, he adds, “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? 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 concludes the conversation, “Michael Jordan’s the GOAT [greatest of all time]. I gotta go.”
Silvester then turns to the fictional suspects and says, “Sorry, guys, you’re on your own. Good luck.”
A policeman calls LeBron for advice in hilarious viral video https://t.co/iQmLOKFXHr
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That policeman is 100 percent correct about life in the jungle and how to deal with it….
Trouble is, the liberals are allowing jungle law to become the law of the land!
Agree. Now we need to build a wall around those jungles so the animals don’t get out and get lost. You know, Save the Jungle.
Awesome video, thank you very much. Did re-post it.
James is just another useless black that deserves a rope.
Mr. Buckmichael has a mental illness and should undergo electroshock therapy until he is a useless white man and then put him a cell with 2 black men to get reprogrammed.
That’s right 2 black men in a cell there’s nothing new
what an obviously biased and racist comment. you engage in the very behavior you condemn. you are, therefore, simply a fool and part of the problem, not the solution.
Being a former Policeman as well as a guard in one of the biggest Maximum Security Prisons in the country, I, as an older white man, can state, unequivocally, that the responding officer who shot the girl with the knife did the RIGHT thing, and was fully justified in doing so! Just imagine what all these Social Justice Warriors would say had he NOT shot her… This was definitely a Kobiachi Maru “No Win” situation, where you are damned if you do, and damned if you don’t! I’m at the point where cops should “Observe” the criminals, rather than engage and do their jobs! Better to get fired for lack of action, than have your life smashed into irrecoverable pieces because you did do your job…
How interesting that some white folks have such a passion for what is right or wrong ,
when a black person ,
who tries in his own way to get a little rightful justice in this historic systemic racist justice system in America,
but obviously doesn’t have the full picture of a situation and should have waited before offering his opinion.
What is more important, correcting Americas original sin of how we became a Nation, warts and all,
and then moving forward as a truly United States of America ?
Or continue pretending, nothing to see here America …… Brutal white supremacy never existed ?
Let’s just talk about little stuff that gets a laugh and doesn’t make white people a little bit uncomfortable to get to a better place.
Lebron took the time to criticize the bar owner who said he would no longer show NBA games because it is easy for someone with nation wide fame to belittle someone who doesn’t even have local fame.
So far I have seen no response from Lebron to the cops video, because he has no answer to someone who completely shred his viewpoint in under a minute.
Too funny, That’s a great parody. I tip my hat to Officer Nate Silvester. Listen partner, I wish I would have thought of that. You hit that round nail squarely on the head.