The New Jersey man who stopped two boys from fighting in a viral video has stepped forward. Ibn Ali Miller, a 26-year-old married father-of-six, said stopping the fight before anyone got hurt was “the right thing to do.”
Miller stepped between the boys and urged them to take a look at their cowardly “friends” who were so eager to watch them kill each other.
“Look at your friends… they’re laughing at you,” Miller said, pointing to the crowd of youths who held their cell phones up to record the fight.
“I just didn’t want those kids to fight. More importantly, I didn’t want one of those kids to lose the fight,” Miller told TIME magazine. “Sometimes when you’re young like that, and you lose a fight in front of your friends and it goes on Facebook, it could hurt you for a long time.”
The video has garnered over 28 million views since it was uploaded to Facebook.com on Monday.
Some Instagram.com users claimed the man was a drug dealer who stopped the fight because “the block was hot”.
Miller, who is a Muslim, said, “I stepped in just because it was the right thing to do,” he said. “Those kids didn’t look like predators to me. To me, I saw my own kids. I didn’t see predators.”
