{"id":98940,"date":"2022-10-16T18:39:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T18:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kanye-west-blames-george-floyds-death-on-fentanyl-not-police-officers-knee\/"},"modified":"2022-10-16T18:39:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T18:39:29","slug":"kanye-west-blames-george-floyds-death-on-fentanyl-not-police-officers-knee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kanye-west-blames-george-floyds-death-on-fentanyl-not-police-officers-knee\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West Blames George Floyd’s Death on Fentanyl, Not Police Officer’s Knee"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In addition to<\/span> railing against \u201cthe Jewish media,\u201d Kanye West spent some time on Drink Champs regurgitating what he gleaned from the George Floyd \u201cdocumentary\u201d made by alt-right firebrand Candace Owens, his partner-in-White Lives Matter. Most notably, West said that fentanyl, and not being suffocated by a police officer’s knee, caused Floyd’s death.<\/p>\n

\u201cI watched the George Floyd documentary that Candace Owens put out. One of the things that his two roommates said was they want a tall guy like me, and the day that he died, he said a prayer for eight minutes,\u201d West told Drink Champs. \u201cThey hit him with the fentanyl. If you look, the guy’s knee wasn’t even on his neck like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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(During the trial against Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin, medical experts tested that even though Floyd had traces of fentanyl in his system, Floyd died from a lack of oxygen caused by the knee on his neck, which a coroners’ report affirmed in deeming Floyd’s death a homicide.)<\/p>\n

West then compared Floyd, whose May 2020 death by police helped sparked the Black Lives Matter movement, to the late designer Virgil Abloh. \u201cThis white company Louis Vuitton is now making statues of him as a martyr, and we don’t know why exactly [he died]they said it was cancer,\u201d West said.<\/p>\n

Immediately after his Floyd comments, West asked NORE, \u201cCan you even run this interview?,\u201d noting how his appearance on HBO’s The Shop<\/em> was axed over \u201chate speech and extremely dangerous stereotypes.\u201d After being uploaded to the Revolt TV website Saturday night, West’s Drink Champs interview was pulled late Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

Even though the episode was taken down, NORE’s response to West regarding Black Lives Matter \u2014 which wasn’t part of the original 45-minute episode \u2014 was posted on the Drink Champs YouTube as bonus footage from the interview:<\/p>\n