Published 09:40 IST, June 5th 2020

Sara Ali Khan deletes 'All Lives Matter' post after flak, fans come out in support

Sara Ali Khan deleted her 'All Lives Matter' post amid the outrage over the killing of George Floyd after receiving flak for it. Fans came out in her support.

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A movement is currently underway in United States of America against racism after death of African-American man George Floyd. Citizens around world have been lending ir support to campaign and even Indians have been reacting strongly to it. Film stars too have expressed ir grief over incident and shared posts backing initiative. 

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However, Indian celebrities have been at receiving end of criticism from netizens and even actors like Abhay Deol, who have slammed m for being silent on issues concerning ir own country, but expressing ir thoughts on a global event. Moreover, re has also been a controversy over some of celebrities using ‘All Lives Matter’ term, inste of ‘Black Lives Matter’ that is being majorly used in movement.

Sara Ali Khan too received criticism for sharing a post on ‘All Lives Matter’ on Thursday. Amid outr over death of an elephant in Kerala, actor shared a graphic of hands of various colours, along with a trunk of an  elephant. post cut out ‘black’ and wrote ‘all’ before statement completed as ‘All Lives Matter.’ 

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post did t go down well with a section and re were some harsh reactions. Some even questioned her degree from Columbia University. A few users even trolled her for posting ‘Black Lives Matter’ on her Instagram stories. Earlier.

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Here are reactions

Sara later deleted post. However, her fans came out in support and wrote that re was thing wrong with her post. y shared how many celebrities h also shared same post, but re was outr and ded that y stood with actor. Some also appreciated her for realising her mistake and  making amends for it 

Here are reactions

Meanwhile, Bollywood stars like Kareena Kapoor Khan, Tiger Shroff, and many ors have condemned killing of George Floyd, who died after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt at back of his neck for over eight minutes while pinning him down. Protests have taken USA by storm, with many of m turning violent, leing to arrests as well.

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09:40 IST, June 5th 2020