big brother 28 alum Camus Kirk Has broken his silence by commenting on his controversial video george floyd.
“I’ve never been one to give in to peer pressure or seek approval from others, which is one of the reasons I haven’t noticed it until now. But let’s talk about it,” Camus, 32, said in a video he shared. through x On Friday, October 9. “Shortly after the cast was announced for Big Brother Season 28, people started trashing me and my character.”
The MMA fighter continued, “Even before the first episode aired, assumptions were made about me because of my profession, my faith, and other things. Keep in mind, none of this was coming from people who know me. You never heard anything from disgruntled ex-girlfriends or former teammates. No, you heard noises from people who don’t know me, have never met me, have never interacted with me.”
while camus was inside elder brother At home, he received backlash on social media when a video of his comments about Floyd resurfaced online. After being ruled out of the game in August, he became aware of the controversy but chose not to speak about it.
He said, “So when I walked out of the house and I found out about all this, I certainly didn’t feel any obligation to immediately appease the people who had been trashing my character for weeks.”
Despite the backlash, Kirk shared that he feels “fine” and is not bothered by the online discussion.
“I don’t get my self-esteem from the Internet. I know who I am, I know what I stand for and I know what I stand for,” he said. “And so do the people who are closest to me and who I care about the most. Ultimately those are the only opinions that matter to me.”
However, Camus decided to address the incident now that his Season 28 castmates — including LaTrice “Lala” Verrett And taylor brown – Those who have remained in the game since the October 1 finale are being “harassed” about this.
He claimed, “Lala is getting DMs, people are in Taylor’s comments section and in her live feed all over social media. My fellow cast members are being tagged in posts about me and making comments in their live streams as well.” “Once my family and friends start getting dragged into something that has nothing to do with them, then I have to speak out.”
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Camus shared that he wanted to explain the context of the entire video, not “just the short clip that went viral.” The video was from “about a year ago” and Camus had heard a “loud noise” outside his apartment at that time. He decided to get up, check it out, and “start filming”. While outside, Camus saw a man who was causing a disturbance being arrested by the police. According to Kamu, who also shared additional footage from the night in a new video, the man was shouting things like “shots fired” even though no actual shots were fired. After the man was forced into a police car, he screamed “I can’t breathe” and Camus responded with his now-viral quip, “Bro thinks he’s George Floyd.”
“It’s very clear when you watch the entire video, not just the short clip. What I was laughing at was the surprise to me that this guy was trying to act like what he was going through was very close to what George Floyd went through,” Camus said Friday. “The irony was that at that moment I felt like the guy was making fun of George Floyd. But that little clip went viral and is still spreading everywhere. I was made to look like I was making fun of George Floyd. I was not laughing at George Floyd. I was not making fun of his death. And I was not laughing at our police brutally assaulting someone or supporting police brutality. I would never do these things.”
Kamu shared that the full video is on his social media pages and he is not planning to remove it as the short version has already gone viral.