Actress Susan Sarandon apologized for tweeting a image of hundreds of police officers accumulated in Manhattan for slain NYPD officer Jason Rivera`s funeral and evaluating them to fascists in advance this week.
“I deeply remorse the meme I lately shared on Twitter that covered a image of Officer Jason Rivera`s funeral,”
Sarandon wrote
“I reacted speedy to the photograph with out connecting it to a police funeral and I comprehend now how insensitive and deeply disrespectful it turned into to make that factor at that time.
“I actually make an apology to the own circle of relatives of Officers Rivera and Mora for inflicting extra ache in the course of their time of grieving.”
In the since-deleted tweet,
The “Thelma and Louise” supermegacelebrity published a screenshot of a tweet through creator and podcaster Danny Haiphong
that covered a image of the hundreds of cops lining the streets of Manhattan for Rivera`s
“I`m gonna inform my youngsters that is what fascism appears like,” Haiphong wrote within side the tweet.
Over the photo of the tweet, Sarandon wrote, “So, if some of these police officers weren`t wanted for CRIME that day, doesn`t that imply they aren`t wanted ANY day?”
The authentic screenshot covered a #abolishthepolice.
Sarandon, who gained the Oscar for Best Actress for the 1995 movie “Dead Man Walking,”
has been a critic of police brutality and has taken component in Black Lives Matter protests, consisting of in Brooklyn.
She is an outspoken supporter of revolutionary political policies.
