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Former Cleveland Cavaliers guard JR Smith is seen in a video published by TMZ Sports on Sunday beating up a man who allegedly damaged his truck during the protests in Los Angeles over the death of George Floyd.
Smith said he was parked in a residential area and not near any stores where looting took place during the protests.
"I chased him down and whupped his ass," Smith said.
Smith said in the video he wanted to make it clear that his retaliation wasn't because the man was white.
"This ain't no hate crime. I ain't got no problem with nobody who ain't got no problem with me. It's a problem with the system. That's it," he said.
"You want to peacefully protest -- a hundred percent, we can do that all day. But once you get to vandalizing people's personal property that has nothing to do with nothing -- and a hundred percent, honestly, I'm the only black guy on my block; I'm the only black person on this corner," he said on the "Pat McAfee Show."
"So for you to randomly just -- thinking you're doing something for the people, the one black person who was able to get out of the situation and move into a nice neighborhood and do all of those things that we aspire to do, you broke that person's window without even knowing. So it's like, people are consistently doing stuff, when you don't even know what you're doing it for or why you're doing it -- out of all the people -- a hundred percent."
Smith said he was parked in a residential area and not near any stores where looting took place during the protests.
"I chased him down and whupped his ass," Smith said.
Smith said in the video he wanted to make it clear that his retaliation wasn't because the man was white.
"This ain't no hate crime. I ain't got no problem with nobody who ain't got no problem with me. It's a problem with the system. That's it," he said.
"You want to peacefully protest -- a hundred percent, we can do that all day. But once you get to vandalizing people's personal property that has nothing to do with nothing -- and a hundred percent, honestly, I'm the only black guy on my block; I'm the only black person on this corner," he said on the "Pat McAfee Show."
"So for you to randomly just -- thinking you're doing something for the people, the one black person who was able to get out of the situation and move into a nice neighborhood and do all of those things that we aspire to do, you broke that person's window without even knowing. So it's like, people are consistently doing stuff, when you don't even know what you're doing it for or why you're doing it -- out of all the people -- a hundred percent."
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