Victor Wembanyama warned the audience: he was there to speak frankly. “PR (public relations) tried, but I’m not going to sit here and be politically correct,” said the San Antonio Spurs pivot. After leaving Spurs training, the 22-year-old Frenchman was questioned about the murder of two civilians by ICE in Minneapolis.
“Every day, I wake up, I watch the news and I am horrified,” explained the Ile-de-France resident. I find it crazy that some people make it seem like this is okay, like killing civilians is okay. »
2 murders in 3 weeks
Two weeks after the death of Renee Good, 37, killed by an immigration enforcement agent (ICE), Alex Pretti was also shot and killed by a federal agent during a demonstration on Saturday.
Earlier this Tuesday, Donald Trump ruled that the nurse, also 37 years old, should not have been armed during the protest. “That being said, you should not have weapons, arrive with a weapon, you should not do that, but it is a very unfortunate incident,” reacted the President of the United States.
The head of the FBI and Trump loyalist, Kash Patel, estimated that “no person wanting to be peaceful arrives at a demonstration with a loaded weapon and two loaded magazines.” Unsurprisingly, Wembanyama did not go in the direction of the president and his supporters.
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