Film & TV / NewsFilm & TV / NewsTrolls are claiming white people were assaulted at Black Panther screeningsThey've used real images of abused womenShareLink copied ✔️February 18, 2018February 18, 2018Text Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff All in all, Marvel's Black Panther movie has been one of the most positive things to ever come out of Hollywood for black people. We have been to Wakanda and back and are still on a high after having seen so many people who look like us on the big screen. But, thanks to the furore around it being a blackity-black movie, there was always going to be a racist controversy. I just wasn't quite expecting it to look like the faces of battered white women, whose traumatic pictures (in some cases of abuse), are being shared by trolls and bots on social media, with claims that they are images of them having been beaten up or assaulted at Black Panther screenings. One of the tweets used an image of a teenager who was locked in an apartment by her boyfriend and assaulted for four hours, captioned: “I was brutally attacked by some black thugs at the #BlackPanther premiere because they said whites weren't allowed to watch the movie.” In another tweet, a Twitter user claimed that an Ohio woman had been hospitalised thanks to a racially motivated attack, while a third said that a “group of black youths” assaulted someone while at a premiere and that they were “off to the ER now”. Thankfully most of the accounts have been deleted and the tweets removed from Twitter, but that doesn't mean that some agenda-setting white supremacists won't have already used them to their advantage. In a clapback, Black Twitter have responded with a parody of the tweets using a picture of Batman's Harvey “Two-Face” Dent after he has half his face blown off (Dent is, of course, a DC villain). “This is a picture of my dad. Last night we went to see #BlackPanther and got jumped by a group of black teens in the parking lot. They shot him with a flame thrower and said ‘this is for the culture cracker!’ A RT could save his life” pic.twitter.com/B4rhkQlyrO— goomba (@RUSKlN) February 17, 2018Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.TrendingWild photos of Melbourne’s multiplying ‘dyke’ dancefloorsIn an ongoing archive of work, photographer Tamara Schumacher documents the rise of FLINTA-filled dancefloors reshaping lesbian nightlife in AustraliaArt & PhotographyArt & PhotographyHow a cult artist from Japan predicted today’s bleak timesHEYDUDEFashionHEYDUDE wants you to be outside this summerFilm & TV9 great films you can watch on YouTube for freeArt & PhotographyThese photos portray life on a tropical island as a beautiful prisonArts+CultureUnravelling the disturbing theory behind Ghibli’s ‘Totoro’Beauty10 of the hottest Instagram accounts fusing art, sex and eroticaArt & PhotographyCamille Vivier’s fierce, fantastical photographs of the female formFashionWorld Cup 2026: Unpacking the 13 most stylish football kits on the pitchEscape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy