{"id":71941,"date":"2020-09-21T16:28:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T13:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tiktoker-apologizes-for-video-romanticizing-police-brutality\/"},"modified":"2020-09-21T16:28:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T13:28:06","slug":"tiktoker-apologizes-for-video-romanticizing-police-brutality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tiktoker-apologizes-for-video-romanticizing-police-brutality\/","title":{"rendered":"#TikToker apologizes for video romanticizing police brutality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a27876551bab\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a27876551bab\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tiktoker-apologizes-for-video-romanticizing-police-brutality\/#%E2%80%98That_is_not_how_I_think_or_what_I_represent\" >&#8216;That is not how I think or what I represent.&#8217;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tiktoker-apologizes-for-video-romanticizing-police-brutality\/#Todays_top_stories\" >Today\u2019s top stories<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#TikToker apologizes for video romanticizing police brutality<br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or TV series visit the <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 class=\"article-sub-head\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98That_is_not_how_I_think_or_what_I_represent\"><\/span>&#8216;That is not how I think or what I represent.&#8217;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content-wrapper\">\n<p>What gets posted to TikTok exists in perpetuity, and a TikToker is now apologizing for a since-deleted video that critics say romanticized police brutality.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Months ago, TikToker Elijah Fang (@lijahfang) uploaded a point-of-view video with the caption, \u201cPOV: I was killed by a cop who got scared and accidentally fired. Now he\u2019s raising my son and I watch over them.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tiktok_lijah_fang_police_brutality-410x512.jpeg\" alt=\"Tiktok Lijah Fang police brutality\" class=\"wp-image-879096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tiktok_lijah_fang_police_brutality-410x512.jpeg 410w, https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tiktok_lijah_fang_police_brutality-320x400.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tiktok_lijah_fang_police_brutality-768x959.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tiktok_lijah_fang_police_brutality-35x44.jpeg 35w, https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tiktok_lijah_fang_police_brutality-134x167.jpeg 134w, https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tiktok_lijah_fang_police_brutality-280x350.jpeg 280w, https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tiktok_lijah_fang_police_brutality-560x700.jpeg 560w, https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tiktok_lijah_fang_police_brutality.jpeg 827w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tiktok_lijah_fang_police_brutality-410x512.jpeg\" alt=\"Tiktok Lijah Fang police brutality\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-879096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tiktok_lijah_fang_police_brutality-410x512.jpeg 410w, https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tiktok_lijah_fang_police_brutality-320x400.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tiktok_lijah_fang_police_brutality-768x959.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tiktok_lijah_fang_police_brutality-35x44.jpeg 35w, https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tiktok_lijah_fang_police_brutality-134x167.jpeg 134w, https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tiktok_lijah_fang_police_brutality-280x350.jpeg 280w, https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tiktok_lijah_fang_police_brutality-560x700.jpeg 560w, https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/tiktok_lijah_fang_police_brutality.jpeg 827w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\"><figcaption><span class=\"dd-image-caption\">Credit: @lijahfang\/TikTok<\/span><span class=\"dd-article-leadart-image-credit\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"dd-article-leadart-image-credit-segment\"><br \/>\n                    <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/storybyleo\/status\/1307356152532021250\">@storybyleo\/Twitter<\/a><br \/>\n                <\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, the video infuriated a lot of viewers, a fact not lost on Fang. She deleted the video \u201c6-7 months ago\u201d according to her TikTok bio, but she caught a new wave of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> backlash over the weekend when a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/storybyleo\/status\/1307356152532021250\">screenshot<\/a> of the video went viral.<\/p>\n<p>The fresh criticism prompted Fang\u2014who has 50,000 TikTok followers\u2014to post two videos on Sunday explaining her headspace at the time of making the POV cop video and why she chose to delete it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOK so first off, I took that video down for a reason,\u201d Fang said in the first video. \u201cIn light of everything that\u2019s been going on, and in light of things that have been h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ening for centuries before I even understood the context of the video I was making, I realized that it wasn\u2019t appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-tiktok wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-tiktok\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@lijahfang\/video\/6874310333104753926\" data-video-id=\"6874310333104753926\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;\">\n<section><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"@lijahfang\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@lijahfang\">@lijahfang<\/a> Acknowledging the cop POV video<\/p>\n<p> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c son original - A girl named Elijah\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/son-original-6874310257355672325\">\u266c son original \u2013 A girl named Elijah<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Fang said she deleted the video before it began circulating on Twitter because she \u201calready realized that it was a stupid video.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo this isn\u2019t even an apology, it\u2019s a \u2018you guys are here late,\u2019\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>That explanation didn\u2019t satisfy everybody, and one TikTok user asked, \u201cWhat the hell was the intent in the first place? Clarify that maybe because idk any context that would make the pov okay?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think at the time I had just wanted to make a point of view that was\u2014I don\u2019t want to say it was positive, \u2018cause obviously someone\u2019s son dying is not positive\u2014but something with positivity in it,\u201d Fang said in her second video, made in response to that question. \u201cBut I didn\u2019t realize that cops don\u2019t necessarily deserve that positivity or that different perspective or outlook.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-tiktok wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-tiktok\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@lijahfang\/video\/6874368087219637509\" data-video-id=\"6874368087219637509\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;\">\n<section><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"@lijahfang\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@lijahfang\">@lijahfang<\/a> R\u00e9pondre \u00e0 @_callmehaimi This is NOT in any way justifying the video I made. I was uneducated and naive and still thought cops could be good people.<\/p>\n<p> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c son original - A girl named Elijah\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/son-original-6874368021012482821\">\u266c son original \u2013 A girl named Elijah<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>After \u201ceducating herself,\u201d Fang said she realized how \u201cdangerous\u201d and \u201churtful to our community\u201d her POV TikTok could be, hence her decision to delete it. She also amended her stance from her previous video and apologized for the harm she caused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know I said I wasn\u2019t gonna make this an apology video, but I really am sorry to anyone who has been hurt by this video that has been resurfacing,\u201d she said. \u201cThat is not how I think or what I represent.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Todays_top_stories\"><\/span>Today\u2019s top stories<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\">\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Video shows police K-9 attacking man who appeared to be complying with orders<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Jerry Harris from \u2018Cheer\u2019 accused of soliciting sex from minors<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>White professor suspended after encouraging students to use N-word in Zoom class<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6 signs it\u2019s time to get a new phone (Sponsored)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"dd-article-leadart-image-credit\">\n<p>                                                                                                <span class=\"dd-article-leadart-image-credit-segment\"><br \/>\n                                        <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/storybyleo\/status\/1307356152532021250,%20https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@lijahfang\/video\/6874310333104753926,%20https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@lijahfang\/video\/6874368087219637509\">@storybyleo\/Twitter, @lijahfang\/TikTok, @lijahfang\/TikTok<\/a><br \/>\n                                    <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dd-article-leadart-image-credit\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"dd-article-leadart-image-credit-segment\"><br \/>\n                    <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/storybyleo\/status\/1307356152532021250\">@storybyleo\/Twitter<\/a><br \/>\n                <\/span><\/span><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to watch Movies or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Social Media category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailydot.com\/unclick\/tiktoker-apologizes-for-video-romanticizing-police-brutality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#TikToker apologizes for video romanticizing police brutality &#8221; 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