{"id":293054,"date":"2020-05-29T14:04:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T20:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1157276"},"modified":"2020-05-29T14:04:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T20:04:05","slug":"officer-charged-with-murder-in-george-floyds-death-ariana-grande-and-more-stars-react","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/officer-charged-with-murder-in-george-floyds-death-ariana-grande-and-more-stars-react\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer Charged With Murder in George Floyd&#8217;s Death: Ariana Grande and More Stars React"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020026\/rs_600x600-200126154525-600-ariana-grande-2020-grammy-awards-red-carpet-fashion.jpg?fit=around|1080:1080&amp;output-quality=90&amp;crop=1080:1080;center,top\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Hollywood is reacting to the arrest of <strong>Derek Chauvin<\/strong>, who has been charged with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/shows\/daily_pop\/videos\/308612\/why-george-floyd-s-death-is-an-america-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">the murder<\/a> of <strong>George Floyd<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the former Minneapolis police officer was taken into custody and faces charges of 3rd-degree murder and manslaughter. His arrest comes three days after he and three other officers were fired for their involvement in Floyd&#8217;s detainment on May 25, where footage obtained by bystanders showed Chauvin pinning Floyd to the ground while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1156273\/lebron-james-justin-bieber-and-more-stars-speak-out-about-george-floyd-s-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">kneeling on his neck<\/a> for five minutes as he pleaded, &#8220;I can&#8217;t breathe&#8221; and died moments later.<\/p>\n<p>Once news of Chauvin&#8217;s misconduct broke, stars took to social media to voice their outrage over his actions and demanded there be legal consequences. Now, they&#8217;re coming together once again to applaud Minneapolis officials for making an arrest and point out some imperative discrepancies.<\/p>\n<p>Among them was <strong>Ariana Grande<\/strong>, who retweeted an article announcing that Chauvin was being held in protective custody and wrote, &#8220;a murderer is being held in protective custody,&#8221; bringing light to the unfairness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1157276\/officer-charged-with-murder-in-george-floyd-s-death-ariana-grande-and-more-stars-react?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood is reacting to the arrest of Derek Chauvin, who has been charged with the murder of George Floyd.&nbsp; On Friday, the former Minneapolis police officer was taken into custody and faces charges of 3rd-degree murder and manslaughter. His arrest comes three days after he and three other officers were fired for their involvement in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-18 21:57:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}