In the wake of the recent police killings of 13-year-old Adam Toledo and 20-year-old Daunte Wright, Madonna has taken to Instagram to call for gun control in the United States.
The musician shared a video of herself against a backdrop of posters emblazoned with messages like “Gun control now” and “Wake up America.” Clad in a blue balaclava, Madonna screamed, “wake up motherfuckers!”, whilst her 2019 track ‘God Control’ — a song penned in response to mass shootings — plays in the background.
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“There’s a new Vaccination! It’s called GUN CONTROL! Should be mandatory. It will SAVE lives!,” she wrote in the caption. The post urged Americans to join the campaign group Everytown for Gun Safety, a “movement of Americans working together to end gun violence and build safer communities”.
In another post, Madonna acknowledged the police brutality that has traumatized the United States in passing weeks. “Adam Toledo was 13 years old, Daunte Wright was 20,” she wrote.
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“The officers who killed them are only being charged with manslaughter. This is insanity. Horrific. And yet it has become normalised in our society. Yes – people kill people, not guns. But the vast majority of people are not enlightened and guns are too easy to own.
“If they were outlawed then no one would feel the need to own a gun to protect themselves from those who have guns. As for police killing innocent children: shooting and suffocating and brutalising innocent people … They should go immediately to jail for the rest of there [sic] lives. No trial, no corrupt justice system.”
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The post arrives amid the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin over the murder of George Floyd, the unarmed black man who died after the office suffocated him under his knee for nine minutes. As The New York Times report, in the days following Derek Chauvin’s trial — which began on March 29th — over three people a day have died at the hands of law enforcement.
