By Ashley Young-
Jasmine Archer-Jones, 23, has been stripped of her title as Miss Swimsuit UK after she posted ‘All lives matter’ in a Facebook post which also questioned George Floyd’s innocence.
The post was taken down after organisers of the pageant informed her that her title had been taken away. Jasmine had posted that ‘Black on Black crime’ is responsible for the ‘majority’ of crime and deaths involving black people in the U.S.
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After Jasmine, who has moved from Chester to Texas, won the title she went on to finish 13th in the world at the Miss Swimsuit USA final.
She did have a link on her Instgram page to the competition website and the organisation’s own page on the platform linked to her social media as the “current queen”.
Jasmine Archer-Jones, 23, from Chester, who moved to Texas shortly after winning the title last year, took to Facebook to share her view that Mr Floyd may not have been innocent, adding that ‘ALL lives matter’.
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Her post also reflected the message of President Trump when she said: ‘more’ white people are killed by police than black people, stating: ‘If you look deeply into statistics, more UNARMED WHITE people DIED than BLACK last year.’
The statistics are in fact true, although some argue that because there are more white people than black in the USA the percentages are at best dodgy.
‘There is video footage of him refusing to get out of his car which warrants for the police officers to use whatever means necessary to restrain the person.’
Jasmine Archer-Jones/Facebook)
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The posts have been viewed as her being hostile to the black lives matter campaign, and being in support of the brutal killing of George Floyd.
Miss Archer-Jones also suggested that Mr Floyd may have had drugs in his system at the time he was killed by a Minneapolis Police officer.
Two weeks later, her boyfriend Todd Markey posted a photograph of white BLM protesters with the caption: ‘White guilt is real, white privilege is a leftist lie’ saying: ‘Couldn’t have said it better myself
Mr Markey is believed to be a Donald Trump supporting separated father-of-two who shares his girlfriend’s views on the Black Lives Matter movement.
Last month Mr Markey posted a photograph of white BLM protesters with the caption: ‘White guilt is real, white privilege is a leftist lie’ and declared: ‘Couldn’t have said it better myself’.
She wrote: ‘This is ridiculous now. It HAS to STOP. ALL lives matter, if you look deeply into statistics, more UNARMED WHITE people DIED than BLACK last year’, reports The Sun.
She added: ‘Yes some people may say George Floyd died when he was innocent but I am yet to see hard evidence of this.
The post was marked as ‘personal opinion’ saying ‘If you don’t wanna know don’t read’ but after organisers of Miss Swimsuit UK were alerted to it she was stripped of the title.
The Facebook post was deleted afterwards.
A source told Sun Online : “Jasmine has tried to sweep it under the carpet and continue on as if nothing has happened but organisers acted quickly to airbrush her from their history.
“They have posted in support of the Black Lives Matter protest and could not afford to be associated with her”
After Jasmine, who has moved from Chester to Texas, won the title she went on to finish 13th in the world at the Miss Swimsuit USA final.
She did have a link on her Instgram page to the competition website and the organisation’s own page on the platform linked to her social media as the “current queen”.
A further humiliating move she is also no longer listed in the previous winners category of the pageant’s website and any photos of her have been deleted.
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