{"id":31656,"date":"2020-06-11T10:08:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T17:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/?p=31656"},"modified":"2020-06-12T02:33:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T09:33:42","slug":"ariana-grande-halsey-more-join-protests-over-george-floyds-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/concerts\/ariana-grande-halsey-more-join-protests-over-george-floyds-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariana Grande, Halsey &amp; More Join Protests Over George Floyd&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marshmello, Halsey - Be Kind (Halsey Lyric Video)\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n7eq3E9zE2Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the protests following the death of George Floyd continue across the US and the world, celebrities are using their platforms to speak out in their support. However, while some of them have taken to social media to express their pain, frustration, and support, others are taking it to the streets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of them was singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/ariana-grande-tickets\">Ariana Grande<\/a> who left quarantine to join a Black Lives Matter protest in Beverly Hills and West Hollywood on Saturday to advocate for an end to racial violence and police brutality. She carried a sign reading &#8220;Black lives matter.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On her twitter, she asked the media not to ignore the peaceful protests happening in the city. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Hours and miles of peaceful protesting yesterday that got little to no coverage. all throughout Beverly Hills and West Hollywood,&#8221;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> she wrote, sharing along the photos of the protests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;We chanted, people beeped and cheered along. We were passionate, we were loud, we were loving. Cover this too please.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grande also implored her followers to vote, sign petitions, and donate to bail funds. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Please keep signing these petitions, making donations, having conversations w family and friends about it, reading and sharing links and resources&#8230; gentle reminder that this doesn\u2019t end today or tomorrow or after you post about it once,&#8221;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> she wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Similarly, signer-songwriter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/halsey-tickets\">Halsey<\/a> shared her experience during the protests in LA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI dont know how to articulate the horrors of today. NG + officers firing rounds into kneeling crowds. We dont have enough medics on the ground on our side. I was treating injuries I am not qualified to. So much blood spilled. If you have med training pls go + standby outskirts.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other artists who posted about participating in events across the country include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/nick-cannon-tickets\">Nick Cannon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/kehlani-tickets\">Kehlani<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/tinashe-tickets\">Tinashe<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/machine-gun-kelly-tickets\">Machine Gun Kelly<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/yungblud-tickets\">Yungblud<\/a>, and many more.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the protests following the death of George Floyd continue across the US and the world, celebrities are using their platforms to speak out in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concerts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31662,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31656\/revisions\/31662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ticketcenter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}