The music video for the country singer Jason Aldean’s controversial single Try That in a Small Town, which became a political lightning rod for its threats toward police protesters, has been quietly edited to remove images of Black Lives Matters demonstrations.
The popular video – which had over 19m views at the time of writing, up from 350,000 when Country Music Television removed it from its channel last week – is now six seconds shorter than when it was originally posted on YouTube on 14 July, as first reported by the Washington Post. The video still features footage of protesters squaring off against armed police, but no longer contains footage from Fox 5 Atlanta depicting violent confrontations during the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020.
