St. Louis mayor Tishaura Jones stops Twitter over Elon Musk tweet

She flew the cage.

The mayor of St. Louis claimed she has actually stopped Twitter, mentioning a now-deleted tweet by the firm’s brand-new proprietor, Elon Musk, that referenced the 2014 Ferguson demonstrations.

” The last straw for me. I’m out,” Mayor Tishaura O. Jones tweeted from her individual account on Thanksgiving Day, sharing a screenshot of Musk’s now-deleted blog post.

On Tuesday, Musk tweeted a 12-second video clip of a storage room filled with tee shirts with the motto #StayWoke at what he declared was Twitter’s San Francisco workplaces.

In the now-deleted follow-up tweet, Musk composed the tee shirts originated from the 2014 demonstrations in the community 20 miles northwest of St. Louis, stimulated by the deadly authorities capturing of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

Musk kept in mind that the Ferguson law enforcement agent that eliminated Brown, Darren Wilson, was vindicated.

“‘ Hands up do not fire’ was comprised,” he composed. “The entire point was a fiction.”

Musk likewise tweeted a web link to a March 2015 Department of Justice record, which claimed accounts declaring Brown had his hands up were “unreliable due to the fact that they are irregular with the forensic as well as physical proof.”

In a different record, DOJ implicated Ferguson polices of racial prejudice as well as profiling, which led to the mayor, authorities principal as well as community court all surrendering. Brown’s family members likewise cleared up with the city in a wrongful fatality suit.

” Y’ all can have this bird application,” claimed Jones, that is Black, in action to Musk’s messages, including, “Happy Thanksgiving to all that commemorate as well as Happy Holidays.”

The account however continued to be energetic since Saturday night. Jones did not clip her Twitter wings totally. Hrs after the individual blog post stating her departure, the main mayor’s account tweeted

an image of her at a Thanksgiving day ceremony.