The mayor of St. Louis, Tishaura Jones, decided to quit Twitter over the social media site’s new owner, Elon Musk’s post referencing the 2014 protests. 

In a now-deleted tweet, Twitter’s new boss shared a 12-second video of a closet full of shirts with the slogan #StayWoke at what he claimed was Twitter’s San Francisco offices.

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In a follow-up tweet which was also deleted, Musk wrote the shirts were made following the 2014 protests in the town 20 miles northwest of St. Louis. The protests had sparked after the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

The Ferguson police officer, Darren Wilson, who killed Brown was exonerated, Musk noted. “‘Hands up don’t shoot’ was made up,” he wrote. “The whole thing was a fiction.”

He also shared a link to a March 2015 Department of Justice report, which said accounts claiming Brown had his hands up were “inaccurate because they are inconsistent with the physical and forensic evidence.”

Following Musk’s Twitter posts, Mayor Tishaura Jones tweeted from her personal account on Thanksgiving Day, sharing a screenshot of Musk’s now-deleted post, writing: “The final straw for me. I’m out.” The reason why Musk deleted the tweets referencing the St Louis protests remains unknown.

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“Y’all can have this bird app,” Jones, who is Black, said in response to Musk’s messages, adding, “Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate and Happy Holidays.”

However, Jones has not exited Twitter entirely. Hours after the personal post declaring her exit, the official mayor’s account tweeted a photo of her at a Thanksgiving day parade.

Nick Dunne, a spokesman for Jones, said that the official account will continue to operate “in the short term.”