Sydney Sweeney Justifies "Innocent Celebration" of Mother's Day and Claims Images Aren't Political

After sharing a number of images and videos from her mother's 60th birthday party on Instagram, Sydney Sweeney unintentionally incited a storm of online criticism.

While the majority of Instagram comments make fun of "Oklahoma," a reference to a line from Euphoria

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This caused a little bit of a stir, as some commenters criticised Sweeney for casually posting a picture of an image connected to the Blue Lives Matter movement

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