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TONY: DAD PASTED RACIST OVER MUM

Chauvin ‘should be sent to Death Row’

- ■ by RUTH MCKEE ruth.mckee@dailystar.co.uk

BOXER Tony Bellew has told how as a boy he saw his mum racially abused – sparking his dad’s fury.

The mixed-race former world champ revealed a yob threw vile insults at his mother during a family break in Cyprus.

Tony said: “I remember being on a holiday in Ayia Napa many, many years ago, I was only a kid. I remember someone racially abusing my mum, and my dad absolutely pasting him all over the restaurant.”

He added: “Since when has a colour defined a person? In my opinion there’s good people and bad people, it’s as simple as

Starmer said the statue should have been taken down “properly with consent and put in a museum”.

He said: “It shouldn’t have been done in that way. Completely wrong to pull a statue down like that.

“But that statue should have been taken down a long, long time ago.”

Meanwhile, this poster of George in Manchester, right, is one of many depicting the man whose death sparked the protests. that.” Tony admitted: “So I personally, I get, ‘Am I black, am I white?’ I don’t look at myself as being either, I look at myself as just being a good person. Mixed race, it is what it is.”

And he said of racist abuse: “I’ve seen it and heard it many, many times but for people now going forward, it’s gone far too far. It’s just a disgrace.”

The Celebrity SAS star called for US cop Derek Chauvin to be put on Death Row or executed over the killing of George Floyd.

He said: “You do one or the other and make an example, because believe you me, you’re going to have to do something extreme here, really extreme, because these police have to understand that you cannot treat people like this.”

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