Lady Gaga spoke about the tense situation in America during her concert in Tokyo last night.
Gaga gave a very heartfelt speech about the ongoing critical situation involving riots in America against immigration police (ICE), who recently killed two protesters. The most recent victim, Alex Pretti, was fatally shot multiple times just last week in Minneapolis.
You can read and watch her full speech below:
"I wanna take a second to talk about something that it's extremely important to me, something important to people all over the world, and especially in America right now. In a couple of days I'm gonna be heading home and, my heart is aching thinking about the people, the children, the families all over America who are being merciless targeted by ICE. I'm thinking about all of their pain and how their lives are being destroyed right in front of us. I'm also thinking about Minnesota, and everyone back at home, who is living in so much fear... and searching for answers of what we all should do. When entire communities, loose their sense of safety and belonging, it breaks something in all of us. I hope that you'll all stand with us tonight. I know we are not in America right now, but we are with our community, and we love you. I'd like to dedicate this song to everyone who is suffering, to everyone who is feeling alone and helpless, anyone who's lost their loved one. And is having a difficult time, an impossible time, seeing when end will be near. We need to get back to a place of safety and peace and accountability. Good people shouldn't fight so hard and risk their life for well being and respect. And I hope, our leaders are listening, I hope you are listening to us, asking you to change the course of action swiftly, and have mercy on everyone in our country. And in a time where it doesn't feel like it's easy to have hope, it is my community and my friends, my family that hold me up. So, I would like to sing a song that does have some hope in it, to try to give us a little bit tonight."
Lady Gaga is currently in Japan, wrapping up the final dates of her Asian tour. She will then return to the United States to begin the second American leg of her MAYHEM Ball Tour in Arizona on February 14.
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