![]() In her video, Owens also criticized the protests that were taking place, noting that “upstanding black citizens” were dying due to the riots. Nobody wants to tell the truth in black America. George Floyd is being upheld as an amazing human being… everyone is pretending this man lived a heroic lifestyle. “For whatever reason, it has become fashionable over the last five or six years for us to turn criminals into heroes overnight” Owens stated in her video at the time. While Owens asserted in her video the manner in which Floyd was murdered was wrong, she called to task why Floyd was being painted as a hero and martyr when that was not the life he led. ![]() This was due to the fact that, rather than co-sign the narrative that Floyd was a martyr in the Black community, Owens reviewed his rap sheet which featured other arrests, including one in which Floyd held up a pregnant woman by gun-point while others robbed her home. ![]() Then, this year, when Owens posted a video on social media about the murder of George Floyd that has led to a huge uprising in the Black Lives Matter Movement, a ton of hate was swung in her direction. ![]()
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