A former ESPN writer is being called a hypocrite for urging rioters to burn down the inner city, then chastising them when they attacked his \u2026<\/b>
\nA former ESPN writer is being called a hypocrite for urging rioters to burn down the inner city, then chastising them when they attacked his neighborhood.
On Thursday, the former ESPN basketball reporter, Chris Palmer, was seen gleefully posting about the confrontations occurring in Minneapolis by rioters claiming to be infuriated by the police-involved death of George Floyd. At one point, Palmer posted a tweet featuring a burning building that he captioned, \u201cBurn that sh*t down. Burn it all down.\u201d
But just over two days later, early on Sunday morning, Palmer posted a tweet excoriating the rioters for attacking a \u201cgated community\u201d near where he lived.
\u201cThey just attacked our sister community down the street,\u201d Palmer wrote just after midnight on Sunday. \u201cIt\u2019s a gated community and they tried to climb the gates. They had to beat them back. Then destroyed a Starbucks and are now in front of my building.\u201d
Then came the hypocrisy: \u201cGet these animals TF out of my neighborhood. Go back to where you live.\u201d
It did not take long for the backlash to hit the former sports reporter. He did try to delete the \u201cburn it down\u201d tweet, but instead of a mea culpa, he jumped back to twitter to defend himself for his odd stance that it is OK to \u201cburn\u201d the inner city, but not his precious gated community.
First, he tried being a martyr by claiming he was \u201con the front lines.\u201d
\u201cI took rubber bullets and tear gas yesterday standing on the front lines. I risked my life trying to get pictures and video. Don\u2019t talk to me about what you don\u2019t know about little girl,\u201d he icily told one Twitter user.
In another he stubbornly insisted that it was perfectly fine to want other people\u2019s neighborhoods burned down while his is protected. The building was an affordable housing development, according to the Star Tribune.
He also went on to slam the rioters, saying, \u201cTear up your own shit. Don\u2019t come to where we live at and tear our neighborhood up. We care about our community. If you don\u2019t care about yours, I don\u2019t give a shit.\u201d
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