- "Real Housewives of Salt Like City" star
Jennie Nguyen has received criticism for social-media posts from 2020. - She shared numerous pro-police Facebook posts the summer following the police murder of
George Floyd .
Jennie Nguyen, a cast member of
The posts, which have been preserved by users on Twitter, have elicited a strong reaction from fans of the hit Bravo show, with some calling for Nguyen to be cut from its forthcoming third season.
"The Jennie Nguyen anti-black lives matter and pro-Trump posts made me throw up. Please don't bring her back next season," one user said in a tweet with more than 1600 likes.
Neither Bravo nor Nguyen responded to Insider's requests for comment on Wednesday.
None of the controversial posts appeared to have been written by Nguyen herself but were posts by others that she shared to her personal Facebook page, which was public as of Wednesday morning.
"Hundreds of blacks shot and many killed (including children) by other blacks every week," one post shared by Nguyen in September 2020 read. "Over a thousand Officers violently injured, some permanently, by rioters."
The post also stated "anarchists" were "rioting in major cities every night," which was false.
"And you still think Police Officers are the problem. You are an idiot," the post concluded.
Floyd, a 45-year-old man from Minneapolis, was killed by a police officer on May 25, 2020 during an arrest. Video showed that then-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes during an arrest while Floyd pleaded he was unable to breathe.
Floyd's death sparked protests against racism and police brutality in cities across the US. While some protests turned chaotic, and at times violent, the majority of the protests that lasted throughout the summer of 2020 were lawful and peaceful.
Nguyen also shared a September 2020 article from conservative
Nguyen also shared on Facebook an image of a Cannon Hinnant, a 5-year-old boy who was shot and killed while riding a bicycle outside his home in 2020 with the text "White lives matter."
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Nguyen shared numerous other posts supporting police, including one post that linked to a "blue lives matter" group. The controversial posts were shared among Nguyen's other posts that included family photos and recipe videos.
Another post she shared read: "Being white doesnt make you racist and being black doesnt make you a slave being an idiot however comes in both colors."
She also shared posts that appeared to criticize the COVID-19 vaccines, including one that cast doubt on the vaccine because scientists hadn't yet discovered a cure for cancer.
Nguyen also shared a meme that used Islamophobic rhetoric to criticize activist and former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. The post, which was an altered "Peanuts" cartoon, showed Kaepernick, who is not Muslim, conversing with Charlie Brown.
Nguyen also appeared to support former President Donald Trump, sharing numerous posts and memes that supported the ex-president and criticized and mocked President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
In one meme she shared to her public Facebook profile in August 2020, Nguyen shared a post featuring a photo of Harris that read: "She will be an inspiration to young girls by showing that if you sleep with the right powerfully connected men then you too can play second fiddle to a man with dementia. It's basically a Cinderella story."
In another, Nguyen shared a meme that depicted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appearing to drink from a bottle of hand sanitizer.
Insider was able to view all of the posts mentioned in this article, however after Insider reached out to Nguyen for comment, her Facebook page appeared to have been deleted or set to private.
Nguyen joined the "
The show, which is the 10th installment of the "Real Housewives" franchise, first premiered in 2020.