Grammy and Dove Award winner Kirk Franklin said he is boycotting Trinity Broadcasting Network, the Gospel Music Association, future Dove Awards shows and all affiliated events after comments he made about a fatal police shooting were edited out of his recent acceptance speech—for the second time in four years.
Franklin announced his decision Monday on a video he posted on his Instagram and Facebook accounts. Franklin won a Dove Award for Best Gospel Artist at the Oct. 15 Dove Awards and, during his speech, the singer shared customary thanks to his wife, Tammy, and support team before turning to an officer-involved shooting in his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas. He asked the audience to pray for 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson, a black woman who was shot and killed through her window by a white police officer. Her 8-year-old nephew was with her and witnessed the shooting.
“I’m just asking that we send our prayers for her family and for his and I’m asking that we send our prayers for that 8-year-old little boy that saw that tragedy and we just lift them up and I’m asking that you pray with us … just pray grace and mercy over their lives in the name of Christ our king,” he noted in an unedited clip of his speech posted on YouTube.
But when the Dove Awards were broadcast five days later on TBN, that portion of his speech had…
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