Meghan McCain calls foul on LeBron James police tweet

“The View” co-host Meghan McCain said on Thursday’s show that “emotions are running really high right now” following a series of high-profile confrontations between white police officers and Black citizens.

The 36-year-old conservative also called out NBA superstar LeBron James for emotionally charged tweets he sent after a 16-year-old girl, who appeared to be going after another person with a knife, was gunned down by cops in Ohio on Tuesday.

“Police tend to treat African-Americans and people of color a different way than they do white people,” McCain conceded. “It’s just a fact we’re all trying to reconcile and come to terms with.”

McCain, the daughter of war hero and former Arizona Sen. John McCain, said that having been raised to respect authority, she’s struggling to process that disparity. That said, she can’t deny what she’s seen in cases like that of former Minnesota cop Derek Chauvin, whom a jury found guilty of killing George Floyd earlier in the week.

But according to McCain, when hugely influential role models like James do things like outing the officer involved in the killing of Ohio girl Ma’Khia Bryant before the facts are in, already tense situations can escalate.

“When you have people like LeBron James posting pictures of this police officer before this has been adjudicated and litigated you’re also putting that police officer’s life in danger and I would like more killing to stop in this country,” she said.

Following the Chauvin conviction in Minneapolis, James tweeted, then deleted a photo of Ohio officer Nicholas Reardon along with the caption “YOU’RE NEXT. #ACCOUNTABILITY.”

After body-camera video from that incident indicated the situation preceding Bryant’s death wasn’t so cut and dry, down came James’ tweet. The Los Angeles Lakers star later went back onto social media to explain himself.

“I’m so damn tired of seeing Black people killed by police. I took the tweet down because its being used to create more hate — This isn’t about one officer. it’s about the entire system and they always use our words to create more racism. I am so desperate for more ACCOUNTABILITY,” James explained.

He went on to say that it’s important to keep one’s emotions in check, himself included.

“ANGER does any of us any good and that includes myself! Gathering all the facts and educating does though!” James tweeted. ”My anger still is here for what happened that lil girl. My sympathy for her family and may justice prevail!”