DJ Envy Reacts To People Trying To Cancel Him over His Comments About The Ma’Khia Bryant Shooting
Last week, DJ Envy started trending on social media after his latest episode of “The Breakfast Club” went viral. While debating Ma’Khia Bryant’s case on-air with co-host Charlamagne Tha God, Envy shared why he believed the fatal police shooting of Bryant was justified.
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He explained, “Every case is different, and in this case, if I pull up to a scene and see a girl chasing another girl [and] about to stab a girl, my job as a police officer is to make sure that girl doesn’t get killed,” Envy said at the time. “And the law allows me to stop that killing or that stabbing by any means necessary. That’s what the law allows me to do, on both sides.” While discussing this same topic with Dr. Umar Johnson, Envy reiterating the same stance: “That cop protected that young girl.”
Envy’s comments on the killing of Ma’Khia Bryant were met with massive outrage, with many social media users calling for him to be canceled. He recently chopped it up with Page Six to react to all the criticism. He said: “I understand people are upset and they have the right to be — but what I don’t like is this cancel culture, when they try to cancel somebody for an opinion.” Envy went on to tell the news site,
“The whole situation is tragic and it’s sad because that system failed that young lady. The fact that she’s out there fighting at 16 with a grown woman. The fact that the older man seen in the video would rather kick the girl on the ground and join the fight instead of stopping the fight, all these things come together and the system failed that girl and it is sad.”
He added, “Everybody’s saying [the police] shoot first, but he possibly saved that [other girl’s] life … if she would’ve stabbed her who knows if she would’ve lived. She could have got cut in the throat, in the face, we just don’t know what could happen.”
Speaking on being accused of selling out his race for supporting the police, Envy said, “It doesn’t hurt me … because people are mad about what’s going on and I’m mad and upset as well,” Envy told Page Six. “But I know who’s on my side and who’s not. I know who tries to help the community and who doesn’t. We sit here and raise money every year for organizations that fight against this. I help our community with financial freedom and learning about buying their own homes, and their own investment properties. So people can have financial freedom so they can use their own money.”
Envy ended by saying, “We should be able to have a conversation and dialogue. I did not sexually assault somebody. I wasn’t racist to someone. I am just stating the facts, and what I see. I have had conversations with friends and celebrities who feel the same way, but they will not say so publicly because it is not a popular opinion and they are fearful of the backlash,” Page Six quotes.
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