Michael Brown, Sr. reaffirmed his opposition to the Black Lives Matter movement while speaking at Chattanooga State Community college .  He objects to BLM after they tried to make money on his son’s death.  He refers to them as “thieves in the night.”  Brown’s son was shot and killed shortly after robbing a convenience store and then attacking a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.  The officer, Darren Wilson was acquitted after many of the witnesses admitted that they lied and all the forensic evidence backed up Wilson’s version of the story.

Black Lives Matter demonstrators marched through the streets, chanting, “no justice, no peace” and, “hands up, don’t shoot.” Some of the protests turned violent, with police launching tear gas at protesters who refused to move. Rioters responded by throwing Molovtov cocktails at officers.

Brown Sr. also criticized the riots, saying that they took the focus off of the loss he and the community felt after losing Brown.

“And when people start rioting and doing all this other stuff they got off focus of the death of my son and started focusing on the negativity, so that overpowered the loss that we went through as far as parents and in the community,” Brown Sr. said, speaking at East Tennessee State University Tuesday.