Cardi B never holds her tongue — whether she’s rapping about her celebrity lifestyle, sex or discussing American politics. Now, she’s accusing Republicans for being self-righteous, publicizing their partisan law and order agenda but remaining mum on social media when recorded incidents of police brutality attacking people of color become viral.
On Wednesday (April 14), the Grammy Award-winning rapper tweeted a one-minute video of herself questioning U.S. Congress members of the GOP with verified social media accounts on Twitter.
“Ya been real quit [sic],” she wrote in the video’s caption. “Twitter Blue check Republicans are a fuckin joke. I don’t ever want to see yaa ranting on celebrities, athletes until yall address what’s REALLY WRONG IN AMERICA!”
Cardi B began the video addressing the recently surfaced police bodycam footage from December 2020 in which U.S. Army Lt. Caron Nazario, 27, was pulled over in Windsor, Virginia as he was driving his brand new SUV, which had temporary license plates.
The footage shows multiple officers brandishing their guns at the Army uniform-clad Nazario, who’s Latino and African-American, and ordering him to step out of his vehicle and get on the ground. While his hands are visibly up, Nazario questions what he’s being pulled over for. One of the officers continually screams at him and eventually pepper sprays Nazario in the face before complying with the officer’s orders.
“This past week we have seen an American lieutenant that served this country get treated like a fucking dog by cops, got maced, got thrown to the floor,” Cardi added. “Mind you, this man served this country — over some fucking license plates, that these muthafuckas couldn’t see temporary license plates.”
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The officer who sprayed the irritant in Nazario’s face was fired by the Windsor Police Department after the footage came out on social media earlier this month. Nazario has since filed a $1 million civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Norfolk, Virginia.
Cardi B continued her diatribe about the tragic death of 20-year-old Black motorist Daunte Wright. Wright was shot by former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter after he was pulled over by Brooklyn Center Police for reportedly having air fresheners in his rear-view mirror. The 20-year law enforcement veteran claimed she’d mistaken her gun for a taser before she fired the weapon.
“We have seen a young man get killed by a cop, unarmed, and the excuse was the cop that had been on duty for 20-plus years, mistaked a gun for a taser,” Cardi said. “And my thing is, where the fuck are you Twitter blue check Republicans at? Y’all are the loudest on this motherfucking app. Y’all not saying nothing, y’all not complaining, y’all blame everything with what’s wrong in America beside the police. Y’all have been very silent! What’s going on?”
This is the second noteworthy political quip this year since she tweeted her disgust about Georgia politicians’ attempt to impeach President Joe Biden after he was sworn into office on January 20.
You are only reporting what the MSM is reporting on Daunte Wright. He didn’t deserve what happened to him, and the officer will likely be tried for manslaughter, but there is more to the story than “being pulled over for an air freshener”. This article is about as divisive as the female Duke. If you’re going to write about this at least give all the facts thus far instead of cherry picking to fit a narrative.
Ah damn my boo Cardi be educatin MF’rs deez publicans need to hit da left!
why should we have to know? it isn’t doing anybody any favours. the media takes something like this manipulates it sensationalises the story and it encourages rioting and looting. how many other black men were shot that night in the whole country? i just think the media including cardi b are stoking tensions.
How many more were caught on camera? And how many of these black men were shot by a police officer? And how many of them happened in the same city where all the protests been going on because of george floyd getting killed by the same police department?
do you think there is a race war going on here.
Only if the police is considered a race, otherwise nobody is talking about a race war in the media, unless you’re talking about fox news which isn’t media anymore but straight propaganda
So, in your mind, an ordinary citizen committing a crime should get just as much attention as a cop committing a crime? Fair enough…. so long as they both get the same penalty for committing said crimes….
Nobody is silent about it. The Cop was an idiot, the dude was a criminal. This was no police brutality, this was police stupidity. No racism involved either yet the fools are rioting and looting again. smfh
A gun is holstered on their dominant hand side and weights around 2.5 lbs. A taser is under 1lbs and is holstered on their non dominant side.
This cop has been on the force for 26 years and is in charge of training other cops. It’s hard to throw this in the “stupid mistake” category.
Duante Wright had a warrant for robbing, beating and choking a woman. Officer Potter was training a rookie cop, who is black, and the rookie cop was the one who made the traffic stop
Which part of the police oath requires them to be judge, jury, and executioner?
He had a warrant, so he shoulda took that L, and got a lawyer
i mean if u run from the cops and u get shot its ur fault. DO THE CRIME DO THE TIME
Show me the part of the law that says if you run from the cops the penalty is death without a trial?
Same person criticizing the country is the same person rapping about her wap.
the difference being:
One is a rapper who isn’t forcing anyone to pay for her music while cops get paid by our tax dollars and repeatedly murder unarmed people.
Kind of sad you can’t see the difference here.
Cardi B retarded …
Cardi speaking facts and Republicans only gonna respond to this by questioning cardi’s rap history instead of directly responding to her comments, cause Republicans always trying to flip the response into a different subject
Those same Republicans pay her to make that buffoonery music, but she doesnt give that money back now does she? Go sit down…
While I agree her music is trash, she has a point. She said “Twitter blue check republicans”… meaning people that actually hold office. I doubt any of them listen to her music. And they have been dead silent on all of this.
I can’t even take cardi b seriously. She should just stay in her lane.
except she has a point…
If you gonna do street sh**, then stay in the streets. I got no sympathy for this clown. Another brother in prison. Can’t say anything about systematic this or that.
think cardi is right #blm
single mothers yall need to do better.
1. pick better mates
2. actually raise your child instead of letting the media.
3. simps save your putting it on the men rhetoric