Katie Hopkins has sparked controversy by saying police officer Darren Wilson should ‘get a medal’ for shooting unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, who she called ‘a thief and a thug.’
She took to Twitter to give her two cents on the Ferguson case after a grand jury decided not to indict officer Wilson over the killing.
The reactions to Ms Hopkins’ comments, posted to her 263,000 followers yesterday, did not take long.
‘Brown was not shot for being black. Brown was shot for being a thief and a thug. Give the officer a medal. Justice with knobs on,’ Hopkins wrote.
In response, several Twitter users accused Ms Hopkins of ‘attention seeking’, ‘antagonizing’, and trying too hard’.
Ms Hopkins, whose post has been favourited 306 times and had 264 retweets so far, is not the first person to tweet her opinion on the controversial case.
When the decision was announced on Monday, 3.5million tweets were posted about the ruling using #Ferguson in just a few hours.
When St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCullough announced the grand jury’s conclusion that ‘no probable cause exists’ to indict Officer Darren Wilson at 8.30pm CT, around 52,200 tweets per minute were posted.
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Amen to one clear and sane voice
We are talking of a thug that beat up a store keeper for cigars
these guys are animals
“Brown was shot for being a thief and a thug.”
Those aren’t death penalty offenses in America. And the grand jury testimony was nowhere near as favorable towards Wilson as is being portrayed.
“these guys are animals”
Racist trash.
He’s an honorary office, who did his job.