Candace Owens is speaking out following Kanye West’s viral Drink Champs comments regarding George Floyd.
In his interview with hosts Noreaga and DJ EFN, the rapper and fashion mogul claimed Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose and not asphyxiation. Despite Floyd’s death being captured on video, Ye claimed former Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin’s “knee wasn’t even on his neck like that.”
Understandably, the comments received backlash on social media, prompting Owens to add her two cents to the dialogue.
“Did you watch the documentary? I mean how ignorant are we going to be?” Owens tweeted. “Kanye is accurately referring to the trial — everything was clarified in the George Floyd trial where they showed the full arrest tape from different angles.”
Owens is referencing her documentary “The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM.”
She continued, “YOU WERE LIED TO. WAKE UP.”
“I swear some people can’t be helped. Slave mentality is a real thing,” Owens wrote. “You can literally point some people to freedom, spend a full year creating a documentary showing them how they are being lied to, and they will be like “you’re crazy.” Plato’s allegory of the cave.”
George Floyd was killed in May 2020 when former officer Chauvin kneeled on his neck for more than nine minutes. Footage of the tragedy was captured by a bystander and subsequently went viral.
Floyd’s death sparked a global reckoning with racism and police brutality, sparking months of protests. “I Can’t Breathe” and “Black Lives Matter” became the rallying cries of demonstrators.
Four former officers were charged with Floyd’s murder, and all four were sentenced to prison.
