Real Salt Lake of America defender, Nedum Onuoha has admitted he always feels threatened and quite uncomfortable any time he sees or hears about police brutality around him, while also conceding that the ongoing crises over the death of George Floyd has totally unsettled him, megasportsarena.com reports.
The former Manchester City full back confessed that riots and public fracas that have erupted since the death of Floyd, after a white police officer pressed him down with a knee to his knck for over eight minutes, has left him worried and feeling unsafe in the United States.
Although he has already spent the past two years in God’s Own Country, the Nigeria-born former England international added that the ongoing protests about racial injustice in the USA have left him feeling vulnerable as a Black man and worrying about his safety in the otherwise liberal nation.
Onuoha told BBC Sport: “I am comfortable but when it comes to any kind of brutality, if it’s from the police, if they read me the wrong way then my life could be taken. I feel that every single day. It is not just me but everybody else as well.
“I am not trying to be overly critical to the police, there are plenty of good police officers out there, but sometimes I feel like people put police on a pedestal and make them seem superhuman. I never go out and feel 100 percent safe.
“In the UK, I am more comfortable because if something happens it probably will not be deadly – but over here because of their rights it is more common that altercations become deadly. I am always very aware of that whenever I go around anywhere.”
