In an exclusive interview with N1, Martin Luther King III, the oldest living child of civil rights leaders, Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, speaks about ongoing mass protests across the US in the wake of George Floyd's death.

“My father almost fifty years ago was in Memphis, Tennessee, and the man who he was demonstrating with had signs that said ‘I am a man, treat me with dignity and respect, and like I am a human being’. 50+ years later black people and white people and Latino and Hispanic people and others have signs that say ‘Black lives matter, treat us with dignity and respect, as we are human beings’,” he said speaking of the ongoing protests that followed the death of Floyd in Minneapolis last week.

Floyd was an unarmed black man who died after a police officer knelt on his neck during an arrest for about nine minutes, while the man was saying ‘I can't breathe’.

King, who has continued his parents’ legacy in the fight for human rights, also speaks about US President Donald Trump's “moral leadership,” the state of civil rights now and back during the terms of presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon.

He recalled of his trip to Bosnia in 2009 when he visited several towns including Tuzla, north of Sarajevo, whose authorities unveiled a statue of his father, Martin Luther King Jr, back in 2003. Being there with locals and witnessing how they honoured his father was an “incredible” experience, King said.

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