He has been praised by LeBron James, Snoop Dogg and soon, the City Council.
Ibn Ali Miller, 26, was running an errand for his mother when he came across an altercation between two boys, stopped it and lectured the pugilists as well as a throng of onlookers.
In video of the incident, Miller calmly walks toward two boys who are fighting in the middle of the road as a group of teens looks on from the street corner. He points his fingers at the group and said:
"Everybody on their phones, y'all the real cowards. Record that, too. It ain't cool, man,” Miller started lecturing the fighters and gesturing to the crowd. “Y'all in the middle of the street. Look, they laughing. Look. He's got a big smile on his face. ... He's supposed to be your man."
Miller continues in the more than four-minute clip:
"Y'all got parents. Don't make your parents look like this.”
Miller, who is a student and father of five, did not leave until the brawlers shook hands.
"It's sad to say, but it's not the first fight I broke up and it's probably not the last," Miller told the Press of Atlantic City on Tuesday. "You can't pick that 'today, I'm gonna stop some kids from fighting', but God does what he wills."
The video has been viewed more than 26 million times with more than 66,000 comments, even garnering a retweet of the video by Cleveland Cavaliers star James.
"To me the fact that LeBron and others have seen it ... it's cool. I'd be more excited when I was a younger man," Miller said. "But I want people to take away from it to pay it forward. That's it."
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