“During the beginning of the BET Awards, the cameras just so happened to ‘catch’ Rihanna playing with a roll of duct tape, leading a bunch of people to wonder on social media what exactly was going on.
It now turns out that BET had this stunt planned from the beginning in order to bring awareness to domestic abuse.
The ‘joke’ was meant to poke fun at Mayweather’s and Rihanna’s well-known histories with domestic violence, Mayweather as a repeated perpetrator and Rihanna as a victim.
BET specifically chose to seat the two stars next to each other, which many thought was bad enough, but then when the duct tape incident happened, social media blew up with outrage…” *
Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) discuss on The Young Turks. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
*Read more here http://globalflare.com/bet-staged-joke-with-rihanna-and-floyd-mayweather/
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Comments
The gag wasn’t about domestic violence. Rihanna was promoting her new music video “Bitch Better Have My Money.” She was kidnapping Floyd not talking about domestic violence. She also kidnapped a couple during the same show, and the announcers even joked about her kidnapping people.
Jezebel breaks her whole gag down, and explains how people could have thought that the Floyd bit was about domestic violence. However, when you keep watching the show you see it was all part of her promoting her music video.
http://themuse.jezebel.com/rihanna-slaps-a-stack-in-bet-evps-face-takes-prisoners-1714626902