Muhammad Ali's son believes father would have opposed Black Lives Matter movement

Boxing great Muhamm Ali, who was one of leing civil rights activists in his prime, would have opposed ongoing Black Lives Matter movement, according to his son Muhamm Ali Jr. While Muhamm Ali Jr. was t particularly against anti-racism protests, violent nature of protests is something he opposes, and thinks his far would have done same. 

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Muhamm Ali Jr. against violent 'Back Lives Matter' protests

Per Muhamm Ali Jr., his far, was an vocate of 'All Lives Matter' and t just 'Black Lives Matter'. "My far would have said, ‘y ain’t thing but devils.’ My far said, ‘All lives matter.’ I don’t think he’d agree," Muhamm Ali Jr. told New York Post. "It’s t just black lives matter, white lives matter, Chinese lives matter, all lives matter, everybody’s life matters. God loves everyone—he never singled anyone out. Killing is wrong matter who it is."

George Floyd death at hands of a police officer in Minneapolis led to nationwide protests against racism and police brutality. While most cities in US saw peaceful protests, some of major cities in country fell victim to violent protests and riots. Destruction of public property and looting became a common sight which forced authorities to place curfews in various parts of country. 

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Muhamm Ali Jr. was extremely critical of manner of protests as he said during interview that one does t need to trash a place to protest against social injustice. "Don’t bust up s**t, don’t trash place. You can peacefully protest," he ded. Ali Jr. agreed that police officer (Derek Chauvin) was wrong with killing George Floyd, but he insisted that people did t realise that re was more to foot than what was me public. " guy resisted arrest, officer was doing his job, but he used wrong tactic."

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While publicly criticising protests, Muhamm Ali Jr. even went onto compare protesters to terrorists. 48-year-old said se protesters are terrorising community, beating up incent people, destroying shops and police stations, which is similar to actions of terrorists. "I agree with peaceful protests, but Antifa, y need to kill everyone in that thing. Black Lives Matter is t a peaceful protest. Antifa never wanted it peaceful. I would take m all out."

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(Im Credits: AP)