The Idaho cop who went viral for a TikTok video roasting LeBron James for his careless tweet has been fired.
“I am the latest target of cancel culture. That’s all it is,” former Bellevue deputy marshal Nate Silvester told Sean Hannity on his Fox News show Thursday, hours after he was fired.
Silvester was initially suspended last month for his TikTok mocking James who was forced to apologize for his post about policing following the shooting of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant.
If you haven’t seen it, in the clip Silvester sits in his patrol car while pretending to have a phone conversation with the NBA player, getting his advice on how to deal with a person holding a knife.
“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?” Silvester said.”
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Idaho Cop Who Mocked LeBron James On TikTok Fired
Silvester was fired Thursday for what Bellevue Mayor Ned Burns said were “continued policy violations” after he had already had a “last chance” with superior officers.
“The decision was solely made by the command structure within the Bellevue Marshals office and was not influenced in any way by me or by the City Council,” Burns insisted, asking for “calm and understanding.”
Silvester said that it was absolutely because of his LeBron James video, as none of his other videos seem to have bothered them before.
“None of my other videos that depicted me in my uniform or involving body camera footage, none of those mattered. They didn’t care about those. It wasn’t until my LeBron James TikTok struck a political nerve that they started to pay attention and complain about it and came up with forms of discipline,” he told Hannity.
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