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Frank Stallone, Sylvester Stallone’s younger brother, has apologized after a tweet in which he slammed Parkland mass shooting survivor David Hogg as a “p—y” went viral.

“To everyone and to David Hogg especially. I want to deeply apologize for my irresponsible words,” tweeted the younger Stallone brother on Sunday. “I would never in a million years wish or promote violence to anyone anywhere on this planet. After what these kids went though I’m deeply ashamed. Please accept my apology. Frank”

Stallone set off a wave of insults across Twitter Saturday after calling the high school student and gun control activist a “p—y,” “little bitch” and a “coward” — and suggesting that the teenager deserves a “sucker punch.”

To everyone and to David Hogg especially. I want to deeply apologize for my irresponsible words. I would never in a million years wish or promote violence to anyone anywhere on this planet. After what these kids went though I’m deeply ashamed. Please accept my apology. Frank

— Frank Stallone (@Stallone) April 1, 2018

“This David Hogg p—y is getting a little big for his britches,” Stallone tweeted. “I’m sure someone from his age group is dying to sucker punch this rich little bitch. Watch him run home like the coward he is. He’s the worst rep for today’s youth headline grabbing punk.”

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The tweet was taken down and Stallone’s Twitter account was locked, but we grabbed a screen shot below.

Reactions came swiftly on Saturday, with many taking a swipe at Stallone’s invisible career.

He locked his account about 5 minutes ago, so we’ll have to wait for him to crawl out from under his rock to get it to him. He’s scared of teh twitters. ????

– Ignatius, Really. (@PHLUBUP) March 31, 2018

Frank Stallone: I am very tough and the Parkland teens are cowards.

*five minutes later*

Frank Stallone: See what I meant to say was pic.twitter.com/BsSXEqB3u2

— Alexandra Erin (@alexandraerin) March 31, 2018

I’d suggest we’d boycott Frank Stallone, but what is there to boycott?

– B. Michael Krol (@bmkrol) March 31, 2018

Yeah, Frank Stallone’s tough. I bet he’d run into a school unarmed to stop a shooter just like Cadet Spanky Bonespurs would. God, I love tough guys.

– Nancy Arone (@NancyArone) March 31, 2018

Ted Nugent, Frank Stallone.
Because mocking teen shooting victims is easier than writing one shitty, quasi-hit song every 40 years.

— Erik Bransteen (@erikbransteen) March 31, 2018

It’s time to boycott Frank Stallone’s projects. Nobody go to the car wash he works at.

— Pierre Dillinger (@Pierre_Dilinger) March 31, 2018

Sly’s younger brother is a singer/songwriter, whose single “Far From Over” from “Staying Alive” made it to No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Original Song from a Motion Picture in 1983.

In the ’90s, he was a running gag on “Saturday Night Live” during the Weekend Update segment hosted at the time by Norm Macdonald.

5 Times Parkland Shooting Survivors Were Falsely Criticized (Photos)

As the high school students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Florida, have increasingly pushed for change around gun control -- most recently in the March for Our Lives events around the country -- they've become the victims of attacks and conspiracy theories by those who wish to discredit them and their cause. Some of the most vocal figureheads of the movement, David Hogg, 17, and Emma Gonzalez, 18, have largely been the targets of these critiques. These five claims have been debunked as false, but it hasn't stopped them from widely circulating on social media.
David Hogg is NOT a "crisis actor"

On Feb. 21, a video claiming that David Hogg was a "crisis actor" briefly became the No. 1 Trending video on YouTube. The video included an old clip of Hogg being interviewed by a Los Angeles CBS affiliate, and it was falsely used as evidence that Hogg did not attend Stoneman Douglas as a student but was an actor. YouTube pulled the video later that day, but not before it received over 200,000 views. A separate meme also claimed that Hogg had attended and graduated from a high school in southern California. And other right-wing writers even claimed that Hogg's media appearances were suspect because his father previously worked for the FBI. Hogg explicitly denied these conspiracy theories.
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David Hogg WAS on campus at the time of the shooting

An article by Sara Rumpf in RedState questioned whether Hogg was on campus during the shooting. Rumpf noted that Hogg's comments in a CBS documentary and his quotes from a Vox article contradicted each other and called into question whether he was actually on campus. Hogg was on campus during the shooting and then returned several hours later with a camera to interview students. Rumpf later recanted the original report and apologized, but conservative media host Erick Erickson had latched onto the original story and stood by his criticism calling Hogg "a bully."
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Emma Gonzalez did NOT tear up a copy of the Constitution

An animated GIF went viral showing Emma Gonzalez tearing up a copy of the U.S. Constitution. But the image, which was tweeted out by the Twitter feed "Gab" and later by actor Adam Baldwin, was doctored. The original image came from a video from a Teen Vogue photoshoot in which Gonzalez tears up a firing range target.
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Emma Gonzalez did NOT "bully" the Parkland shooter

Two conservative blogs, LouderwithCrowder.com and The American Spectator, posted an abbreviated clip of Emma Gonzalez's remarks at a rally on Feb. 17, claiming that they were "a startling admission" that Gonzalez and others had bullied shooter Nikolas Cruz. "Those talking about how we should have not ostracized him? You didn’t know this kid! OK? We did," Gonzalez said. But in context, Gonzalez was referring to the fact that school officials were alerted to Cruz's behavior and mental instability. Another student, Isabelle Robinson, wrote a New York Times op-ed responding to the idea that students needed to be nicer to Cruz. "The idea that we are to blame, even implicitly, for the murders of our friends and teachers is a slap in the face to all Stoneman Douglas victims and survivors."
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David Hogg did NOT give the Nazi salute

Following his speech at the March for Our Lives rally, an image circulated juxtaposing David Hogg with his arm and fist outstretched with an image of Hitler giving the Nazi salute. "All in favor of gun control, raise your right arm," the meme reads. Several on social media also drew the comparison, but video shows that Hogg extended his closed fist into the air rather than an open palm facing downward.
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Students David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez have been the subject of conspiracy theories, misinformation and doctored images

As the high school students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Florida, have increasingly pushed for change around gun control -- most recently in the March for Our Lives events around the country -- they've become the victims of attacks and conspiracy theories by those who wish to discredit them and their cause. Some of the most vocal figureheads of the movement, David Hogg, 17, and Emma Gonzalez, 18, have largely been the targets of these critiques. These five claims have been debunked as false, but it hasn't stopped them from widely circulating on social media.

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