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NYPD Officers Rally to Help Get Colin Kaepernick an NFL Job
bleacherreport.com ^ | 8/19/17 | Alec Nathan

Posted on 08/19/2017 6:53:40 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama

Current and former members of the New York City Police Department rallied in Brooklyn Saturday in support of former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

According to the Associated Press (via ESPN.com), approximately 75 "mostly minority" officers attended the rally and wore T-shirts featuring the hashtag "#imwithkap."

Frank Serpico, who was played by Al Pacino in the 1973 film Serpico that depicted police corruption, was also in attendance.

"He's trying to hold up this government up to our founding fathers," Serpico told the AP.

Kaepernick, 29, has been an unrestricted free agent since he parted ways with the 49ers in March.

His name has surfaced in several rumors this offseason, most notably regarding backup gigs with the Seattle Seahawks and Baltimore Ravens.

According to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Kaepernick is not being blackballed for silently protesting during the national anthem and speaking out against social injustice.

"He can't be because we're not," Goodell said July 30, per WNST's Luke Jones. "The clubs are making those individual evaluations."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: angryblacks; cops4kaepernick; kaepernick; leo; losercops; nfl; nyc; nypd
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To: Pearls Before Swine

How about Japan?


21 posted on 08/19/2017 7:17:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Inyo-Mono

So much for Serpico.

The movie was ok.


22 posted on 08/19/2017 7:18:18 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

As if Canadian football really counts.


23 posted on 08/19/2017 7:19:18 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

I didn’t watch any NFL games last season and don’t expect I’ll waste any time watching this year. There’s only 12 minutes of actual playing time.

Colleges are a different business model. Their slave labor from mostly black players whose labors earn the colleges billions without pay is genius.

What a great racket. Preen about minority rights on campus then treat blacks like slaves in the stadium.


24 posted on 08/19/2017 7:22:59 PM PDT by Rebelrage ("To crush your enemies -- See them driven, and to hear the lamentation of their women")
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To: 2nd amendment mama
This is where America is headed with its "heroes".

What do these protesters have in common besides not caring about American values, supporting a certain ethnic athlete even when he is wrong and supporting everything about the NFL? I will let you figure it out because Mr Robinson would be mad at me if I typed it here....go figure.

25 posted on 08/19/2017 7:23:04 PM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

I’ll hire him to mow my yard one time


26 posted on 08/19/2017 7:24:40 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I don't want better government; I want much less of it.)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

Mayor Bill de Blasio AKA Warren Wilhelm Jr AKA Warren de Blasio-Wilhelm must surely approve! /s/


27 posted on 08/19/2017 7:29:31 PM PDT by TaMoDee (Go Pack Go! The Pack will be back in 2017!)
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To: Pollster1
Current and former members of the New York City Police Department . . . approximately 75 "mostly minority" officers attended the rally

Seventy-five current and former, from an organization as large as the NYPD and living retirees.... A pitiful turnout.

28 posted on 08/19/2017 7:29:39 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Japan...no, far as I know.


29 posted on 08/19/2017 7:31:12 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: dynachrome

And once you hire the Kap, you can never fire him.
He will get a lifetime contract.


30 posted on 08/19/2017 7:32:04 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

75 out of total 34,450 sworn officers.

.04%

About the same percentage of the general population that supports Kaepernick.... or voted for Soupy Sales in the last presidential election.


31 posted on 08/19/2017 7:32:11 PM PDT by Strac6 ("Mrs. Strac, Pilatus, and Sig Sauer: All the fun things in my life are Swiss!")
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To: 2nd amendment mama

These racist cops can probably get him a job cleaning the toilets at the police station


32 posted on 08/19/2017 7:36:08 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: wally_bert
As if Canadian football really counts.

He should go there. It won't matter if he stands or kneels for the anthem there.

33 posted on 08/19/2017 7:37:26 PM PDT by Tonytitan (I)
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To: Parley Baer

In the ISIS Football League, the handoff is a career - ending play.


34 posted on 08/19/2017 7:40:39 PM PDT by henkster (Ask your favorite liberal to take the "Snowflake Challenge.")
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To: falcon99

75 mostly minority...

Most did not attend


35 posted on 08/19/2017 7:41:28 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Rebelrage
Their slave labor from mostly black players whose labors earn the colleges billions without pay is genius.

It's not their fault that the players don't take advantage of the scholarships they get.

36 posted on 08/19/2017 7:42:35 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: falcon99

You condemn 35,000 for the actions of 75?


37 posted on 08/19/2017 7:44:37 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: 2nd amendment mama

Apparently they are committed enough to his signing that they must want him to start for the NY Giants or Jets. Works for me (Cowboys/Texans fan.)


38 posted on 08/19/2017 7:47:01 PM PDT by rod1 (CTLY)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

Kaperkneegro needs to be hollowed and and made into a wet suit that is all


39 posted on 08/19/2017 7:47:47 PM PDT by al baby (May the Forceps be with you Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: falcon99

Blue Bloods is fiction. The NYPD is actually rotten fro the top down.


40 posted on 08/19/2017 7:49:24 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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