Rapper Bad Bunny defended himself from backlash after video surfaced showing the performer taking a fan’s phone and throwing it into the distance after they got too close.

The 28-year-old rapper, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, said he has no problem with fans wanting to meet him, but shared that if they disrespect him, he will disrespect them back.

“Anyone who comes up to me to say hello, to tell me something, or just to meet me, will always receive my attention and respect,” Bunny wrote in a tweet translated by Variety.

“But those who come to put a damn phone in my face, I’ll consider that what it is: a lack of respect and I’ll treat that the same way,” he added.

La persona que se acerque a mi a saludarme, a decirme algo, o solo conocerme, siempre recibirá mi atención y respeto. Los que vengan a ponerme un cabrón teléfono en la cara lo consideraré como lo que es, una falta de respeto y así mismo lo trataré yo. #SINCOJONESMETIENE

— ☀️🌊❤️ (@sanbenito) January 2, 2023

In the video, the Puerto Rican rapper can be seen walking in the Dominican Republic surrounded by a group of fans and his team. A girl appears to step in front of him, putting a camera in his face in an apparent attempt to record their interaction.

With the camera open and front-facing, the female fan holds the phone in front of the singer, who is then seen grabbing it and launching it toward the waterway. The fan looks shocked as the singer continues walking.

One person off-camera can be overheard saying, “Wow! Really?”

Someone in the rapper’s entourage then replied, “You have to respect his space,” the outlet noted.

At the time of this publication, the video had been seen 10 million times.

Reading through the comments under the viral video, there was a mix of critics and defenders of the artist, with some saying that he had a “right to set his boundaries,” but others who thought that, considering his position as a top artist, he should’ve used his words instead, the outlet noted.

Billboard recently crowned Bunny the top artist of 2022, in addition to his album Un Verano Sin Ti scoring Top Album of the Year, Entertainment Weekly noted.

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Kentucky State Treasurer Allison Ball published a list of financial institutions currently boycotting energy companies and required that agencies in the commonwealth divest from the firms.

The move is the latest effort among conservative states to distance themselves from companies involved in the environmental, social, and corporate governance movement, also known as ESG, over concerns that the approach mingles profits with social and political causes. Ball named 11 asset management companies and investment banks, including BlackRock and JPMorgan Chase, as “Restricted Financial Institutions” in a notice seen by The Daily Wire.

“When companies boycott fossil fuels, they intentionally choke off the lifeblood of capital to Kentucky’s signature industries,” Ball commented in a press release. “Traditional energy sources fuel our Kentucky economy, provide much needed jobs, and warm our homes. Kentucky must not allow our signature industries to be irreparably damaged based upon the ideological whims of a select few.”

State government entities must notify Ball of any holdings in the companies within 30 days of the notice. Identified companies must cease boycotting energy producers within 90 days in order to avoid divestment. The other firms named by Ball include Citigroup, Climate First Bank, Danske Bank, HSBC, Nordea Bank, Schroders, Svenska Handelsbanken, and Swedbank.

The notice from Ball occurs more than two months after she authored a letter alongside Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron asking the commonwealth’s public pension systems to advise their offices about “efforts to ensure that ESG considerations are not being implemented in your systems’ investment decisions.”

Kentucky ranks seventh in the nation for coal production, according to data from the Department of Energy, and low electricity prices have helped attract manufacturing to the commonwealth. Beverage waste from the state’s distilleries is often used in ethanol production.

Several banks and asset managers have participated in alliances under which executives push portfolio companies to nix carbon emissions. BlackRock has taken “voting action on climate issues” against dozens of portfolio companies, according to a stewardship report published two years ago; the company is a member of Climate Action 100+ and similar associations.

State officials recently called on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to prohibit Vanguard, another prominent asset management company, from purchasing shares in publicly traded utilities out of a concern that the firm’s climate activism will raise prices and decrease energy reliability. Vanguard subsequently ceased participation in the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative, under which companies commit to seek “net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner” using investment funds.

Republican state officials pulled some $12 billion from BlackRock last year, representing a small fraction of the nearly $8 trillion managed by the company as broader market forces react against the ESG movement. Officials have expressed concern that the ESG movement presents difficulties to energy companies seeking to obtain capital.

“Treasurer Ball takes another bold step today in defense of her state’s financial future by putting banks on notice that boycotts of American energy won’t be tolerated,” State Financial Officers’ Foundation CEO Derek Kreifels remarked in a statement provided to The Daily Wire. “She and other state financial officers across the country are leading the movement to ensure that money earned by hardworking American families is used in accordance with their values, not weaponized against them.”