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."
How about Japan?
So much for Serpico.
The movie was ok.
As if Canadian football really counts.
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.
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.
I’ll hire him to mow my yard one time
Mayor Bill de Blasio AKA Warren Wilhelm Jr AKA Warren de Blasio-Wilhelm must surely approve! /s/
Seventy-five current and former, from an organization as large as the NYPD and living retirees.... A pitiful turnout.
Japan...no, far as I know.
And once you hire the Kap, you can never fire him.
He will get a lifetime contract.
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.
These racist cops can probably get him a job cleaning the toilets at the police station
He should go there. It won't matter if he stands or kneels for the anthem there.
In the ISIS Football League, the handoff is a career - ending play.
75 mostly minority...
Most did not attend
It's not their fault that the players don't take advantage of the scholarships they get.
You condemn 35,000 for the actions of 75?
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.)
Kaperkneegro needs to be hollowed and and made into a wet suit that is all
Blue Bloods is fiction. The NYPD is actually rotten fro the top down.
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