--- description: "We don't reflexively celebrate random or routine white death, make memes of your bleeding corpses" title: Ferguson: Jesse Williams Tweets About Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1af7cf7fd08784dd/69876360f887dc49b0e87cc7/jesse-williams.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Here's Jesse Williams Venting About Ferguson and Trayvon Martin Halloween Costumes by [Dan Hirschhorn](/author/dan-hirschhorn/) ## Dan Hirschhorn Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 30, 2014 11:44 AM CUT  Actor Jesse Williams in New York in 2013. Actor Jesse Williams in New York in 2013.Jamie McCarthy—Getty Images by [Dan Hirschhorn](/author/dan-hirschhorn/) ## Dan Hirschhorn Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 30, 2014 11:44 AM CUT _Grey’s Anatomy_ star Jesse Williams [went on a Twitter tirade](http://www.essence.com/2014/10/29/jesse-williams-tweets-frustration-mike-brown-shooting-trayvon-martin-costumes "undefined") this week about the shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and about people who dress up for Halloween as Trayvon Martin, another unarmed black teen who was shot dead. Here’s just a few of his tweets, some of which were sent in response to the recent release of an autopsy report that seemed to give some weight to the police version of events in the Ferguson shooting, which sparked weeks of sometimes violent protests in the St. Louis suburb. > [](https://twitter.com/iJesseWilliams/status/527190939349942272) > [](https://twitter.com/iJesseWilliams/status/527192114702979073) > [](https://twitter.com/iJesseWilliams/status/527193759377670144) > [](https://twitter.com/iJesseWilliams/status/527193949962645504) [Read more at _Essence_](http://www.essence.com/2014/10/29/jesse-williams-tweets-frustration-mike-brown-shooting-trayvon-martin-costumes "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3547875/jesse-williams-ferguson-michael-brown-trayvon-martin/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3547875/jesse-williams-ferguson-michael-brown-trayvon-martin/"},"headline":"Here's Jesse Williams Venting About Ferguson and Trayvon Martin Halloween Costumes","datePublished":"2014-10-30T11:44:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T07:59:22.265Z","description":"\"We don't reflexively celebrate random or routine white death, make memes of your bleeding corpses\"","url":"https://time.com/3547875/jesse-williams-ferguson-michael-brown-trayvon-martin/","keywords":["celebrities","Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1af7cf7fd08784dd/69876360f887dc49b0e87cc7/jesse-williams.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dan Hirschhorn","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/dan-hirschhorn/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1af7cf7fd08784dd/69876360f887dc49b0e87cc7/jesse-williams.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jesse Williams","caption":"Actor Jesse Williams in New York in 2013.","creditText":"Jamie McCarthy—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3547875/jesse-williams-ferguson-michael-brown-trayvon-martin/","name":"Here's Jesse Williams Venting About Ferguson and Trayvon Martin Halloween Costumes"}}]}] ```