By AFP More by this AuthorLOS ANGELESFormer Cleveland Cavaliers guard JR Smith is seen in video published by TMZ Sports on Sunday beating up a man that Smith said damaged his truck during Los Angeles protests over the death of George Floyd. Smith can be seen violently kicking the man when he is on the ground and punching him when he rises, before the man runs away. "I chased him down and whupped his ass," Smith said in a video posted on The Neighborhood Talk Twitter feed. He said he wanted to make it clear that his actions against the man, who is white, were not racially motivated. Video showed white police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on a handcuffed Floyd's neck for more than eight minutes.

Source: Daily Nation June 01, 2020 02:03 UTC