Susan Sarandon apologizes for controversial comments about NYPD officer’s funeral

Actress Susan Sarandon has apologized for a social media remark concerning the funeral of slain NYPD officer the place she in contrast it to ‘fascism’ and referred to as the occasion ‘insensitive.’

Sarandon, 75, posted a tweet about officer Jason Rivera’s funeral after he was shot and killed in East Harlem on January 21.

Rivera and his accomplice Wilbert Mora had been shot useless after responding to a home name which concerned a mom and son.

The Oscar-winning actress tweeted a photograph of Rivera’s casket being carried via the streets of NYC with the caption: ‘I am gonna inform my children that is what fascism appears to be like like.’

She additionally added: ‘So, if all these cops weren’t wanted for CRIME that day, does not that imply they don’t seem to be wanted ANY day?’

The hashtag #abolishthepolice was additionally within the submit. 

Sarandon provided her apologies on Friday after receiving criticism for her feedback.

‘I deeply remorse the meme I lately shared on Twitter that included a photograph of Officer Jason Rivera’s funeral,’ she stated within the submit.

‘I reacted rapidly to the image with out connecting it to a police funeral and I understand now how insensitive and deeply disrespectful it was to make that time at the moment.

‘I sincerely apologize to the household of Officers Rivera and Mora for inflicting further ache throughout their time of grieving.’

Sarandon had in contrast the funeral to ‘fascism’ and referred to as it ‘insensitive’ on Twitter 

The Oscar-winning actress stated she regrets making the submit and has apologized to the household or Rivera and his slain accomplice Wilbert Mora

Jason Rivera 22, who joined the NYPD a bit over a yr in the past, was shot and killed at an East Harlem condominium on January 21

1000’s of officers collect exterior the St Patrick’s Cathedral for Rivera’s funeral

Officers carry the casket of Wilbert Mora at St Patrick’s Cathedral on Wednesday 

Sarandon acquired a big quantity of backlash on social media after making the controversial submit.

‘Individuals who say “cops don’t stop crime” should be among the most naive folks of all time,’ wrote @stevesbromike. ‘Each single metropolis that has defunded their police has seen a pointy rise in virtually all crimes. Should you don’t suppose that’s correlated you might be actually simply silly.’ 

‘Truthfully, what’s flawed with you? Do you may have any thought the nightmare that’s NYC proper now? New Yorkers are terrified by the surge of crime, all due to folks such as you considering abolishing the police is would resolve something,’ wrote one other person.

‘It [is] the logic of a three-year-old,’ wrote one other person. ‘I recommend she does the duties of a cop for a yr after which let’s examine how fascist she thinks they’re. Cops shield little youngsters, rescue these in misery and weak all over the place. All she does it speak for a dwelling.’ 

The actress, who lived within the Chelsea neighborhood for 3 a long time till 2020, has been traditionally crucial of the NYPD. After she bought her enormous pre-war duplex for $7.9 million, the actress informed the Wall Avenue Journal that she meant to remain within the neighborhood and at all times stay a New Yorker. 

In July of this yr, Sarandon joined a rally exterior Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s workplace calling for ‘Medicare for All,’  saying that she and her fellow leftists are ‘dropping hope’ within the progressive lawmaker via a bullhorn and calling for higher management from ‘The Squad.’

In 2018, Sarandon was arrested alongside 575 different protesters throughout an demonstration exterior the US Senate constructing towards a Trump-era coverage that separated migrant youngsters from their dad and mom on the border. 

Practically a decade earlier, she was arrested in March of 1999 exterior One Police Plaza after she joined a several-week-long protest after Amadou Diallo, a unarmed avenue vendor, was shot useless by NYPD cops within the Bronx.

Susan Sarandon, 74, stated AOC made ‘a whole lot of guarantees,’ however that she nonetheless has ‘religion’ in her at a rally in July of 2021

The Academy Award winner, 74, has admitted that her sturdy views got here at a value – leaving her shunned from folks within the trade and even receiving dying threats

Chatting with Sydney’s Saturday Further, the actress admitted in 2017 that she wasn’t one to shrink back from controversy after expressing her staunchly unfavorable opinion on Hillary Clinton over the last US presidential marketing campaign and having her say on the #MeToo motion in gentle of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.

Sarandon, pictured with Thelma and Louise co-star Geena Davis, stated that the issues she regrets are ‘solely issues I did not say or do’ in an interview about her outspoken activism

Nevertheless, the Academy Award winner, 71, has admitted that her sturdy views got here at a value – leaving her shunned from folks within the trade and even receiving dying threats. 

‘The issues that I remorse are solely issues I didn’t say or do, though I went via a fairly scary time main as much as Iraq, and I actually – in not supporting Hillary Clinton – ended up getting an infinite quantity of warmth about that.  

The Thelma and Louise star continued: ‘I simply know for all of the unkind or hurtful issues, or scary issues which have occurred due to an unpopular stand with the warfare or no matter, I don’t remorse it.’

In 2017, Sarandon introduced she was glad Hillary Clinton misplaced the election as a result of she’s ‘very harmful’ and America can be ‘at warfare.’ 

When former Mayor de Blasio lauded the NYPD for his or her ‘super restraint total’ throughout George Floyd protests, Sarandon tweeted ‘disgrace on you’ at him. In the end, town Division of Investigation later criticizing cops for his or her use of extreme power throughout a variety of 2020 protests and de Blasio apologized. 

Sarandon is not the primary individual to get backlash over their gripes relating to the funerals – Coney Island Prep math instructor Christopher Flanigan was fired after he posted a photograph of the mass of officers, saying that they had been within the ‘supreme circumstances for reciprocity’ for officers that plowed into George Floyd protesters in 2020.  

Christopher Flanigan, who taught math at Coney Island Prep, posted a photograph of 1000’s of officers exterior of St. Patrick’s Cathedral for the funeral of Det. Jason Rivera, saying it was the ‘supreme circumstances for reciprocity’

Flanigan captioned the now-deleted photograph in his Instagram story: ‘5/30/20: NYPD SUV drives right into a crowd of protestors. Perfect circumstances for reciprocity,’ in accordance with the New York Publish. 

The now-fired instructor stated that his remark was ‘misconstrued.’ 

‘I used to be actually simply attempting to point out the vulnerability of all of those law enforcement officials being in the identical place on the identical time which looks as if a harmful state of affairs for anybody that might be that gathered collectively,’ Flanigan informed the Publish on Sunday. 

New York Metropolis actress Jacqueline Guzman was let go from Face to Face Movies theater firm after ranting about avenue closures throughout Rivera’s funeral. 

In a now-deleted TikTok, Guzman pans over avenue site visitors, exhibiting police vehicles and ambulances blocking streets.   

New York Metropolis actress Jacqueline Guzman acquired backlash for her ‘disrespectful’ feedback relating to avenue closures throughout NYPD Officer Jason Rivera’s funeral on Friday 

‘We don’t have to shut down most of Decrease Manhattan as a result of one cop died for most likely doing his job incorrectly,’ she says within the video. 

‘They kill people who find themselves beneath 22 each single day for no good cause and we do not shut down town for them, so.’ 

Her personal firm launched a press release, calling Guzman’s video ‘insensitive’ and that it doesn’t ‘condone’ her ‘feedback made about fallen Officer Rivera.’ 

Though Guzman’s submit drew an unimaginable quantity of ire, some Twitter customers nonetheless griped concerning the site visitors brought on by Mora’s funeral procession. 

‘Visitors in midtown is insane at the moment due to the NYPD officer’s funeral,’ wrote @adammc123. ‘Automobiles are blowing via intersections on pink lights. I virtually bought hit twice & yelled at drivers. Some man on Broadway was having a MELTDOWN at a truck blocking the intersection. I don’t blame him!’ 

‘In case anyones having a foul day: I bought caught on seventh ave for 2 hours due to an NYPD funeral after which my energy steering died so I then needed to look forward to a tow for one more two hours whereas they navigated the identical site visitors,’ wrote @NEZ2021.