Fans blast Pharrell Williams for saying ‘Dead teen Michael Brown was asking for trouble’

Pharrell Williams is under fire over comments he made in an interview about the shooting death of 18-year-old African American Michael Brown by a white police officer,, describing the teenager’s behaviour leading up to his killing as “bully-ish”.

Before he was shot dead on August 9, Brown was caught on surveillance camera stealing a few cigarillos from a convenience store in Ferguson, Missouri, and intimidating the shop owner.

Michael Brown caught on Camera

“It looked very bully-ish; that in itself I had a problem with,” Williams told Ebonymagazine. “Not with the kid, but with whatever happened in his life for him to arrive at a place where that behaviour is OK. Why aren’t we talking about that?”

“The boy was walking in the middle of the street when the police supposedly told him to ‘get the f*** on the sidewalk’. If you don’t listen to that, after just having pushed a store owner, you’re asking for trouble,” he added.

 Williams did tweet his disappointment that police officer Darrell Wilson was not indicted over Brown’s death.

“I’m heartbroken over the news of no indictment in Ferguson,” he wrote.
“Let’s all pray for peace.”

Not surprisingly, Williams’ comments caused a furore on Twitter. Check out what tweets by fans below :