'It is about what is going on in England.'
‘It is about what is going on in England and the rest of the world. I feel we are lucky we don’t have armed police officers on the street because we are still stereotyped and judged by these police officers over here, just the same [as in the US].’
He continued: ‘I can’t even count how many times I’ve been pulled over. I can’t count how many times I’ve gone to a club and not got in, how many times a security guard has followed me round a shop. I can’t count how many times that somebody has asked me if I’m a footballer because I’ve come out of a nice car.Andre explained that, as a black man, he’ll only ever be perceived as a ‘footballer, a rapper or a drug dealer.
‘It wasn’t something I’m not used to seeing,’ he said of Floyd’s death, when different cases of police brutality have been occurring for a long time. ‘Which is pretty sad to say. It’s maybe more disturbing for other people but for me and a lot of black people, it’s become a normal thing to see.’Love Island stars Amber Gill, Luke Trotman, Siannise Fudge, and Mike Boateng have been attending the protests.
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