Tag: Skateboarding

No, it wasn’t THAT Tony Hawk that called in and roasted the LAPD

The skateboarding legend took to Twitter to clarify.

A public Zoom call with the Los Angeles Police Commission on Tuesday as protests continued over the death of George Floyd was inundated with furious callers and calls for police chief Michel Moore to resign after his statements on Monday that he eventually apologized for.

One of those callers was Tony Hawk. But it turns out it wasn’t THAT Tony Hawk, the skateboard legend who made headlines recently for an incredible good deed he did last month.

Although some people thought the caller sounded like Hawk, the one known for his skateboarding checked in on Twitter to inform the world that he wasn’t the one who had jumped on the meeting:

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Tony Hawk connects with a delivery driver through TikTok to give an amazing gift to a young fan

An awesome story of social media connection.

Occasionally, we get a reminder that the power of social media is unlike anything else, and that’s the case with this story involving legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk, a TikTok user and a kid.

Let’s start with TikTok: a FedEx driver who calls himself Mikail on his profile sent out a video in which he said a young fan of Hawk’s named Cooper chased him down to ask if he could mail a board to the skateboard star.

Mikail, of course, doesn’t have Hawk’s address, so the video was the next best thing.

Sure enough, Hawk responded with a TikTok of his own directed to Cooper: he said the skateboard was on its way … and that Hawk was sending one of his own back:

This is all amazing and wonderful, especially at a time like this.

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