LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 09: Doechii accepts the Best Female Hip-hop Artist award onstage during the 2025 BET Awards at Peacock Theater on June 09, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET)
Before last night’s BET Awards, there was some question about whether the show could go on as scheduled. In Los Angeles, near the site of the show, hundreds of Marines were deployed to shut down the protests against ICE and Donald Trump. The broadcast went on as planned, but ascendant phenom Doechii, winning her first BET Award, took a moment to acknowledge what was happening and to make a statement in solidarity with the protesters.
