idaho cop mocks lebron james in tiktok video

In another video on his page, Silvester also appeared to defend Kimberly Potter, the Minnesota Police officer who last month shot and killed Daunte Wright in his car when she said she meant to discharged her Taser rather than her gun. Toward the end of the video, Silvester thanked James, pretended to hang up the phone, and told the fictional people outside his window that they were on their own, wishing them 'good luck.' '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 asked James. 'One guy is trying to stab another guy with a knife. Silvester then said the character in his skit holding the knife was Black, implying that the fake James had asked about the man's race. James wasn't actually on the other end of the #lebron #comedy #humanizethebadge #copsoftiktok #fypシ #foryou ♬ Spongebob - Dante9k 'What do you think I should do?' Silvester asked the basketball player in the skit. The April 20 shooting came just about a half-hour before a jury found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all counts for his May 2020 killing of George Floyd, whose death sparked nationwide unrest and calls for police reform and abolition. Bryant's killing sparked protest and outcry, and the mayor of Columbus called on the Department of Justice to review the police force for any instances of racial bias. The scenario is a clear reference to Bryant, who in police bodycam footage appeared to lunge at another girl with a knife. James later deleted the tweet to prevent the spread of further hate, he said. After Bryant was killed on April 21, James posted and eventually deleted, a tweet that said: 'YOU'RE NEXT.' James called for 'accountability' and included in the tweet a photo of Nicholas Reardon, the officer who shot Byrant four times. Then, he pretended to receive a phone call from Los Angeles Lakers basketball star LeBron James. 'Excuse me, sir, can you put the knife down please, sir?' Silvester said in the video, indicating that one of the off-screen characters in the skit was holding a knife. He also rolled down the window and started to talk to people standing outside, though it didn't appear he was actually speaking to anyone. Music from 'Spongebob' played in the background of the video. 'Dispatch, I have arrived,' Silvester said, pretending to talk on his police radio. In the viral video, which as of Saturday racked up 5.1 million views and more than 700,000 likes, Silvester sat inside his police car and performed a skit titled, 'here we go again.' It said it was a 'personnel issue' that was being investigated internally. 'The statements made do NOT represent the Bellevue Marshal's Office.'

'The Bellevue Marshal's Office is aware of the extreme controversy regarding Deputy Marshal Silvester's viral TikTok,' the Marshal's office said in a statement posted to Facebook on Tuesday. Silvester likewise did not immediately return Insider's request for comment.

Bellevue Marshal Mynde Heil did not immediately return Insider's request for comment about Silvester's employment with the city police.

Idaho cop mocks lebron james in tiktok video