Actor Shameik Moore has been slammed for suggesting the Black community should stop “blaming” police brutality on racism. The conversation surrounding racially-driven police brutality in the U.S.
has been rife after footage emerged showing African-American man George Floyd being knelt on at the neck by an officer on Monday night.
Floyd later died in hospital, with the news outraging thousands of people online and leading to the dismissals of the cops involved.
While the majority of social media users have been calling for institutional change, Moore, who voiced the Marvel superhero in 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, embarked on a lengthy Twitter thread in which he attempted to advise his followers how best to “avoid” being killed
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