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A photograph purportedly showing NBA player Lebron James in a shirt reading, We march, y'all mad. We sit down, y'all mad. We speak up, y'all mad. We die, y'all silent was widely circulated on social media after it was posted to the Twitter account Merlin's Mom on 9 October 2017: This image has been doctored. The original photograph was taken on 8 December 2014 and showed James in an I Can't Breathe t-shirt. James was one of several NBA players to wear this shirt in honor of Eric Garner, who was killed by police officers earlier that summer: Here's a comparison of the doctored image (left) and the original image (right): James told reporters that he wore the shirt because he wanted to make a statement about the current state of society and show support for Eric Garner's family:
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