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After her rant against criminals among the black community went viral, a St. Louis grandmother recorded a follow-up, apologizing for her bad language but not for her beliefs. Now Peggy Hubbard is being called a hero \u2013 and a traitor.<\/p>\n
Hubbard, who grew up in St. Louis and lives across the river in Illinois, recorded the first video after the August 20 protests in Fountain Park. A house and a car went up in flames<\/a>, as some 150 demonstrators protested the police shooting of a young black man during a drug raid. Mansur Ball-Bey, 18, was\u00a0shot in the back<\/a> after reportedly pointing a gun at two officers and running away.<\/p>\n The night before, 9-year-old Jamyla Bolden was shot and killed in her bedroom in Ferguson, in what appeared to be a random drive-by attack. Hubbard later said she recorded the first video because, as a grandmother of a girl about that age, she was shaken and angered by Bolden\u2019s killing.<\/p>\n \u201cLast night, who do you think they protested for? The thug. The criminal,\u201d<\/em> said Hubbard, referring to Ball-Bey. Yet nobody protested over the little girl, she said, blasting the demonstrators for \u201ctearing up communities\u201d<\/em> over criminals who get killed by police, but displaying complete disregard for African-Americans who get killed by the criminals.<\/p>\n Shared with the public via Hubbard\u2019s Facebook page<\/a>, the video went viral overnight. By Saturday, it had close to four million views. By Monday, it exceeded seven million.<\/p>\n (Warning: The video contains strong language)<\/p>\n