LOS ANGELES — Pharrell Williams says “everyone is heartbroken” there was no grand jury indictment of a white police officer in the killing of a black Missouri teen.
Williams tweeted about the decision last week and said in an interview late Monday that his perspective on the case hasn’t changed since the shooting in August.
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“My feelings have been the same since that boy was murdered,” Williams said backstage at “The Voice” in Los Angeles, where he’s a coach. “Everyone is heartbroken. It’s another teen, unarmed teen gunned down.”
The “Happy” hitmaker has been among the most high-profile recording artists to weigh in on the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson and the racially charged aftermath, in a recently published Ebony magazine interview and elsewhere.
“So I mean, what are we going to do, though? What are we going to do about it?” he said.
He declined comment on ongoing protests.
“It’s not really about what I think. It’s about what you’re going to do. What are you going to do? He’s a teen who is gone,” Williams said. “He was gunned down. What are you going to do? … That’s why it hurts. Because you have no answer. None of us do. He’s gone. That hurts.”
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