Country music icon Garth Brooks decided to cancel his Thanksgiving appearance on NBC's Tonight as a reaction to the jury's decision not to prosecute Ferguson, Mi. police Darren Wilson after he gunned Michael Brown this summer.

He called the jury's decision "distasteful."

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Meanwhile, NBC confirmed the country singer's cancelled engagement.

Whoopi Goldberg and Tom Colicchio are lined to appear in his stead.

Brooks took to Facebook to air his sentiment. He arrived in New York on the night the grand jury decided on Wilson's case, announcing that "the news of the civil unrest that was going on in our nation. To spend the day promoting our stuff like nothing was wrong seemed distasteful to me."

Brooks, however, offered to appear some other time.

Protests against Ferguson, Missouri, grand jury decision are still going on throughout the country, a manifest that the racially charged case has already escalated to a national concern from the black St. Louis suburb.

People consider the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson as just one of the troubling encounters in law enforcement. Protesters repeatedly shouted "hands up, don't shoot" as a rallying cry against police killings throughout the United States.

Meanwhile, Garth Brooks' successful comeback has been made possible after his album Man Against Machine topped Billboard's Country Albums chart, selling 130,000 units, while landing her the No. 4 spot in the Billboard 200 charts just behind Taylor Swift, Foo Fighters and Pink Floyd.

However, 130,000 sold only reflected sales of record albums and does not include streams and downloads.

Brooks is slated to release her new single, "Mom," in the country radio on Nov. 24.

The crooner is now on a world tour to promote the album.

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