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Bubba Wallace on Confederate flag ban protests: 'We won’t see cops pepper-spraying them and shooting them with rubber bullets'

Bubba Wallace understands that people may continue to protest NASCAR’s Confederate flag ban. And he also understands that they have the right to do so peacefully.

The Cup Series race at Talladega on Monday was the first at the track and in the state of Alabama since NASCAR banned fans from flying the Confederate flag at tracks on June 10. Some fans protested with Confederate flag outside the track and a group paid for a large flag to be flown by a small plane over the track on Sunday.

“It’s the right for peaceful protests,” Wallace said, when he was asked about the protests.