Posted on 09/10/2017 6:07:09 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Los Angeles (AFP) - Seattle's Michael Bennett and Oakland's Marshawn Lynch joined other NFL athletes Sunday in protesting the treatment of minorities by US law enforcement during the first weekend of the regular season.
Both Bennett and Lynch remained seated during The Star-Spangled Banner before the Seahawks and Raiders season-opening games as part of a continuing wave of protests that began last year with former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
Bennett sat as teammate Justin Britt stood next to him with his hand on his shoulder while another teammate, Thomas Rawls, stood on Bennett's other side before the game against the Green Bay Packers.
Bennett's brother, Martellus, who plays for the Packers, stood at the end of the Green Bay bench with his right fist in the air.
Two weeks ago, Bennett was detained on a Las Vegas street for about 10 minutes by police
Bennett has alleged that he had been the victim of racial discrimination after being threatened at gunpoint by the police. He said they "singled" him out for "nothing more than being a black man in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Police denied the charge and said Bennett was detained briefly because he was spotted running from the police before jumping over a wall. Bennett was handcuffed but police did not arrest or charge him.
Raiders runningback Lynch also sat during the anthem just like he did a number of times during the preseason. Lynch, unlike Bennett, has declined to discuss his reasons for doing so.
In Cleveland, players linked arms with police, military and firefighters during the anthem before the Browns' opener against the Pittsburgh Steelers. No players knelt during the song.
Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins and Los Angeles Rams linebacker Robert Quinn also raised their fists
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FTNFL!
NFL can GTH!!!!!!
The Browns fielded a team today? Who knew???
I know my wife's sister and her husband were in downtown Cleveland most of the day drinking and partying, but that's normal for them most weekends.
Bump
Best place for the cops to clear a stack of warrants?
Any place there is Raider fans.
Now they’ve got their own thug to root for, fresh out of early retirement, Marshawn Lynch, bound and determined to stand with the cop killers.
U.S real median income $30,240
What are players complaining about again?
My boycott will continue another year.
This is literally ‘monkey see, monkey do.’
They saw the positive press CP got and are trying to follow with more nonsense.
Owners should cut anyone unwilling to stand out of respect to our flag and our veterans.
Day before 9/11 and these idiots are pulling this.
Hoping the concussion lawsuits will shut down college football. That’ll end the free NFL farm system and hopefully shut down the league.
These ‘victims’ will go back to flipping burgers.
Cleveland has a team that’s named the Browns, but I’d not want to call them that. The last team worth the name was uprooted by Art Modell.
Seeing them regularly lose to the Bengals was bad enough.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/28/news/companies/nfl-tax-exempt-status/index.html
The not-for-profit status also required the league to disclose the salary of its commissioner and other top league executives. Roger Goodell received $35 million for the 2013 season, the most recently disclosed year, a fact that was known only because of the NFL’s tax status. He was paid $140 million in the six seasons ending in 2013, more than any player was paid in the same period.
Boycott NFL
Goodell could have nipped this in the bud by stating that nobody has freedom of speech on the job. If a waiter at a steakhouse showed up in a “meat is murder” shirt and started criticizing customers for ordering steak, he would be fired. Goodell should have said players have freedom of speech when on their own time, but not while on their team’s time.
The real problem is that business leaders and politicians are scared of blacks. They know that if they cross them, there will be protests at the least or possibly riots.
Book: Don’t Make the Black Kids Angry
Still better than the NFL and NBA, hands down
Sympathetic with all the “turn off the NFL” thoughts, BUT, if you don’t drop the cable it doesn’t matter.
The networks all get carriage fees for every cable subscriber, and they don’t know or care if you watch.
DROP THE CABLE.
A lot of empty seats in stadiums.
totally agree. Exercise your first amendment rights on your own damn time. You spoiled brat entitled baby game players stfu and play the game and respect the flag your countrymen fought for so you could be a spoiled brat entitled baby.
I visualize in the future it will be strictly pro football prison teams.
Seems a bit pedantic to me.
Millionaires employed by billionaires ‘working’ in arenas we paid for, thumbing their noses at us.
Screw that.
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