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        <title><![CDATA[Protesters give Pepsi to police to troll Kendall Jenner’s commercial]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All they&#8217;re saying is, give Pepsi a chance.</p><p>As demonstrations <strong>sweep the globe</strong> in the name of the <strong>unarmed black lives</strong> lost in police custody, some marchers are using the protests as an opportunity to further roast Kendall Jenner&#8217;s <strong>revoked Pepsi commercial from the 2017 Super Bowl</strong>.</p><p>At a June 2 demonstration in Los Angeles, California, comedian Everett Byram re-enacted Jenner&#8217;s widely mocked commercial — in which the model ditches a photoshoot to join a protest and offers a cop a can of Pepsi. In the parody, Byram approaches an LAPD officer while holding out a soda.</p><p>&#8220;Hey, you guys, like a Kardashian over here, hey, look, it&#8217;s a Pepsi, want Pepsi? Have it!&#8221; Byram says, walking toward the police. &#8220;Have a Pepsi, dude!&#8221;</p><p>The officer tells Byram he appreciates the offer, but to back up. &#8220;But it helped in the commercial,&#8221; Byram responds.</p><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t drink soda,&#8221; the cop responds.</p><p>In a separate incident, a protester walked up to a line of police in riot gear, arm outstretched with an offering of a plastic Pepsi bottle.</p><p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe someone actually did it,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/PeaDeeKay/status/1268376043011833856" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tweets</a> an onlooker who captured a now-viral image of the moment.</p><p>In addition to being tone-deaf, Jenner&#8217;s nearly three-minute ad was also criticized for oversimplifying activism in the name of corporate profit.</p><p>Jenner did not respond to The Post&#8217;s request for comment.</p><figure id="attachment_15784670"  class="wp-caption alignleft"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/06/kendall-pepsi-66.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/06/kendall-pepsi-66.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/06/kendall-pepsi-66.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Kendall Jenner in the now-recalled Pepsi commercial.</span><span class="credit">Pepsi</span></figcaption></figure><p>That sentiment again resounded this week during <strong>#BlackOutTuesday</strong>, when many social media users posted and then deleted <a href="https://twitter.com/rajat_suresh/status/1267833698365460482" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">black squares in solidarity</a> with the Black Lives Matter movement.</p><p>The squares, critics argued, were an overly simple act of solidarity that drowned out useful information for demonstrators on social media platforms.</p><p>The Pepsi offerings from 2020 protesters draw a stark parallel to the <strong>famous photos</strong> of anti-Vietnam War protesters bringing flowers to law enforcement. The difference is that the soda gifts are meant as a meme-based mockery of commodification while the flowers were sincerely intended as a peace offering.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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