Healy is trending on Twitter this afternoon following his response to the death of George Floyd in Minnesota, after he died while being detained by police on the side of a road.
Floyd's death has resulted in riots across the state of Minnesota, and many popular figures are using their social platforms to protest against racism.
The 1975 vocalist Matty Healy decided to speak out on Twitter following the chaos caused by Floyd's death, but it has been heavily criticised by fans. In a now-deleted tweet, The Metro reports Healy wrote, "If you truly believe that “ALL LIVES MATTER” you need to stop facilitating the end of black ones." Before publishing the tweet, Healy added a link to The 1975's "Love It If We Made It Song".
Healy then deleted the tweet after fans called him out for promoting his own music off the back of a Black Lives Matter tweet. He responded by writing, "Sorry I did not link my song in that tweet to make it about me it’s just that the song is literally about this disgusting situation and speaks more eloquently than I can on Twitter."
His tweets were received with criticism, resulting in The 1975 singer to deactivate his Twitter account. Instead, he decided to post on Instagram, sharing a post with a link to a petition demanding justice for Floyd's death, and another post with the picture of the police officer that had his knee on Floyd's neck, writing, "MURDER".
