Drake, Jesse Williams, Nicki Minaj and More React to Alton Sterling's Death by Police
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Kanye West also takes to Twitter to repost a disturbing video of 34-year-old Sterling shot and killed by police officers in Baton Rogue.

AceShowbiz - Another black person died at the hand of white police officers. Alton Sterling was shot and killed by two police officers in Baton Rogue, Louisiana, on Tuesday, July 5 after an anonymous 911 caller reported that Sterling was threatening people with a gun outside a convenience store, where he was selling CDs.

A video of the disturbing moment has surfaced online, showing that Sterling was already pinned down before he was fatally shot by police. The shooting has since sparked public outrage and the case is being investigated by the Justice Department.

Some celebrities have weighed in on the issue. Drake, who is a Canadian, posted on Instagram a lengthy note to express his concern about the "strained" relationship between black and brown communities and law enforcement. Calling America his second home, he added, "My thoughts and prayers are with the Sterling family and any family that has lost someone to this cycle of violence."

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Jesse Williams, who recently delivered a powerful speech about Black Lives Matter at the BET Awards, expressed his anger via Twitter. "In the interest of time, would ye noble patriots please provide a list of infractions punishable by spontaneous public execution? Thanks!" he tweeted. "Upon receipt of this list, we'll return to our quarters and study up, eager to enjoy freedoms of white mass murders. #LIFEHACK ... You chumps will NEVER provide this list... We see through you."

In another tweet, the actor reacted to petition urging "Grey's Anatomy" to fire him after his speech at BET Awards. "Because you keep incessantly promoting their cowardly intolerance! Not a single sane sentence in their claim. NotOne," he wrote.

Nicki Minaj took to Instagram to list the names of black people who were killed by white people and the killers went unpunished. "Will there be a conviction now? Probably not. #RIPAltonSterling hug the ppl u love a little tighter.... tell them you love them a little more often," she wrote.

Kanye West, meanwhile, simply tweeted a link to a video that captured the disturbing moment when Sterling was pinned down and shot by police. The 37-year-old man was not holding a gun in the video.

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