A man with a gun was killed Thursday in a shootout with police in New York City after he pointed his weapon at a man in an apartment building elevator and a deli worker and threatened to shoot up a hospital, police said. New York Police Department officers took the man to a hospital in a police
US man defends ‘poop-throwing festival’ video from India, offers mock apology
American YouTuber Tyler Oliveira sparked outrage on social media after filming a video of himself participating in a festival in a Karnataka village in which people throw cow dung at each other. Social media users accused him of being a racist and alleged that he showed a ritual celebrated to mark the end of Diwali in a negative light. Oliveira addressed the backlash by sharing a series of posts on X, including one where he offered a mock apology.
“I'm sorry India…” he wrote in a tweet. He also tweeted a visual with a text that reads, “STUDY FOUND THAT INDIANS ACTUALLY SHOWER WAY MORE THAN PEOPLE IN THE UNTIED STATES.”
In another post, he slammed an international publication for its coverage of the incident. “It isn't racist to film a poop-throwing festival. Was this article written by an Indian?”
In a third post, he mocked, “Indian family tries to use cow poop to revive their son… The cow poop rabbit hole goes deeper.”
Slamming the YouTuber, an individual wrote, “This is so stupid. Don't be racist.” Another shared, “Stop milking India, man.” A few others shared the same notion.
The X bio of the American YouTuber reads, “Man with a camera asking people questions with a small microphone.” At the time of writing this article, he had over 8.28 million subscribers on YouTube and more than 1,70,000 followers on X.
He previously sparked a controversy after claiming that he fell ill while in India, despite eating at five-star hotels. "During my trip to India, I ONLY ate in 5 star hotels and still contracted 4 types of Salmonella,” he wrote on X.
Source: HindustanTimes
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A man with a gun was killed Thursday in a shootout with police in New York City after he pointed his weapon at a man in an apartment building elevator and a deli worker and threatened to shoot up a hospital, police said. New York Police Department officers took the man to a hospital in a police
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