The mother of Ahmaud Arbery has condemned Kanye West’s “White Lives Matter” stunt as a move that “legitimises” the type of “extremist behaviour” that led to her son’s racist murder at the hands of three white men.
Wanda Cooper-Jones told Rolling Stone in a statement through her attorney Lee Merritt that West’s “mockery” of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and promotion of the white supremacist phrase “set us all back” in the fight against extremism.
