Brin-Jonathan Butler - At a certain point, Mik...

At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

American Journalist

Born: 1979

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