Erica Banks is currently under fire for twerking in front of a young male crowd of students at Fredrick Douglass High School in Atlanta.

Over the weekend, a video clip of the rapper performing at the school’s pep rally began circulating on social media.

The students seemed to enjoy the performance in the video as they cheered her. At one point, a coach had to prevent the football players from participating in her dance moves.

Once those twerking skills surfaced on the Internet, social media users reacted differently than the supportive crowd that cheered Banks on during the pep rally, Hot New Hip Hop reports.

The video shows the Texas rapper walking around the high school gymnasium stopping directly in front of the teen boys. She then turns her back to the young men and begins to twerk as if the gym had turned into a school dance — she was throwing it back.

 

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“Mind you, she at a high school!! Why tf you twerking for children!” one Twitter user noted.

Since the incident, Banks has responded to the criticism.

 

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“Girl didn’t nobody touch them kids, clearly,” Banks wrote in the comments on The Neighborhood Talk‘s post. “We had a great time. Good day.”

Twitter has been in a frenzy over the topic of conversation with tweets flying around from both sides of the fence-as some defend Banks, and many believe her dance moves were distasteful.

“They had fun … she got paid … nobody was touched … lighten up,” one user tweeted.

“If you see someone defending Erica banks twerking at a HS pep rally in front of underage children, don’t let them around your kids,” another user tweeted. “Y’all sick af. What they do or see outside of school has nothing to do with an adult shaking her ass in their faces on purpose at a pep rally.”

What do you think Banks was in the wrong for twerking in front of the boys or was it a harmless act?

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