Tishaura Jones stop Twitter after Elon Musk tweeted that Michael Brown didn't have his fingers up when he was fatally shot by a Ferguson police officer.
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She flew the coop.
The mayor of St. Louis mentioned she has stop Twitter, citing a now-deleted tweet by the corporate’s new proprietor, Elon Musk, that referenced the 2014 Ferguson protests.
“The ultimate straw for me. I’m out,” Mayor Tishaura O. Jones tweeted from her private account on Thanksgiving Day, sharing a screenshot of Musk’s now-deleted submit.
On Tuesday, Musk tweeted a 12-second video of a closet stuffed with shirts with the slogan #StayWoke at what he claimed was Twitter’s San Francisco workplaces.
Within the now-deleted follow-up tweet, Musk wrote the shirts stemmed from the 2014 protests within the city 20 miles northwest of St. Louis, sparked by the deadly police capturing of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
Musk famous that the Ferguson police officer who killed Brown, Darren Wilson, was exonerated.
“‘Arms up don’t shoot’ was made up,” he wrote. “The entire thing was a fiction.”
Musk additionally tweeted a hyperlink to a March 2015 Division of Justice report, which mentioned accounts claiming Brown had his fingers up have been “inaccurate as a result of they're inconsistent with the bodily and forensic proof.”
In a separate report, DOJ accused Ferguson cops of racial bias and profiling, which resulted within the metropolis supervisor, police chief and municipal decide all resigning. Brown’s household additionally settled with the town in a wrongful demise lawsuit.
“Y’all can have this fowl app,” mentioned Jones, who's Black, in response to Musk’s messages, including, “Joyful Thanksgiving to all who rejoice and Joyful Holidays.”
The account nonetheless remained energetic as of Saturday night.
Jones didn't clip her Twitter wings totally, although. Hours after the non-public submit declaring her exit, the official mayor’s account tweeted a photograph of her at a Thanksgiving day parade.
Nick Dunne, a spokesman for Jones, mentioned that the official account will proceed to function “within the brief time period.”
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