Cardi B put Candace Owens on blast after the political commentator shared her perspective on Sonya Massey’s murder by an Illinois cop.
Owens recently took to her YouTube show to discuss Massey’s tragic death, where she claimed that the fatal shooting had nothing to do with race. Cardi responded to Owens’ comments on X Spaces on Wednesday night, calling the take “disturbing.”
“For you to sit here and say that ‘Oh not everything is racial. I know that this is sad, but this is not something racial. There’s more white people that get killed by the cops,’” Bardi said around the 13:00 minute mark in the video below.
“Girl shut up,” she continued. “You don’t feel one little bit of empathy, a little bit of sympathy of how this woman died? There was no argument, there was no conflict, there was no raised voice, and she got shot.”
Cardi pointed out that the shooting could have racial motivations even if Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson never uttered a racial slur: “It had everything to do with the fact it was because she was Black. So nobody has to say a racial slur for you to know that it was racially motivated.”
She added, “He knew in the back of his head because she was a Black woman that he was going to get away with it. Not only did he think that, but the department thought that because they didn’t tell her son or her father that a cop shot her.”
Cardi directed her next point at Owens, saying, “This could be you one day. And it could be actually worse because you the type of person that if a cop stop you, you would get sassy at the mouth. As soon as you get sassy at the mouth, the muthafucka would shoot your ass.”
Owens encouraged Black Americans to “not take this bait” on her show.
“Police officers are human beings, there are mistakes that happen,” she explained. “The idea that now you’re going to use this situation … to then try to make Black Americans believe that this happened simply because she was Black, is pointedly ridiculous.”
She then claimed that unarmed “white Americans are more likely to be shot and killed by police officers … than Black Americans.”
The body camera footage of Massey’s police murder was made public earlier this week, showing the 36-year-old Black woman and mother of two brutally murdered by Grayson, who is white. On July 6, Massey telephoned the Springfield, Illinois police about a possible intruder in her home, only to be shot by Grayson in the head.
The deputy was fired from the sheriff’s department and charged with first-degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm, and official misconduct. He pled not guilty last Thursday.