‘I was frustrated.’ Trina clears the air after ranting about Miami protests
Miami rapper Trina clarified comments she made on Monday’s episode of her morning radio show after being excoriated on social media for calling protesters “animals.”
The Diamond Princess claimed she was “angry,” saying that she only had a problem with people tearing up black communities not the protesters as a whole.
“Don’t self-destruct it because that has nothing to do with George Floyd,” Trina said Wednesday on The Trick N’ Trina Morning Show on 99 Jamz. “That is not getting a message across and that is not getting to the solution.... His own family spoke up and said that it’s distracting people from talking about [what happened] to him.”
This explanation came just hours after Trina’s rant surfaced online. Her tirade, recorded during Monday’s radio show, seemed to fail to differentiate the protesters who marched in support of Floyd from those using his death as an excuse to create chaos.
“Keep everybody off the street — these animals off the street — that’re running around in Miami-Dade County acting like they escaped from a zoo,” she said on air Monday morning, later adding half of the marchers “are not even caring” about Floyd.
Her frustration arose from the destruction of her friend’s business at Bayside Marketplace, which was ransacked during protests over the weekend. But social media users, particularly on Twitter, took issue with her sweeping generalizations that appeared to chastise protesters and looters alike.
Her remarks about not being “scared” during encounters with law enforcement, coupled with her insertion of black-on-black crime into a conversation about police brutality, only worsened the social media firestorm.
Although protests in some parts of the country have grown more intense, Miami’s demonstrations stand in stark contrast. The protests, now entering their sixth consecutive day on Thursday, have seen a decline in aggression and more amicable encounters with police as organizers have implemented rules to insure marchers stay peaceful.
This story was originally published June 4, 2020 at 4:18 PM.
