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Only if they penalize somebody, which they haven't done yet and may never do. I'm betting that they're hoping this letter and the warning is enough. If they actually penalize somebody for kneeling it's going to be a ####show with no end in sight.
How do you "easily" classify the word "should" to mean the word "must"?
Instead of sitting or kneeling or whatever that in reality really does no good and is alienating the fan base and dividing teams, coaches and owners.
Lol, I'm sure that white America will watch some show on the NFL network about police brutality against minorities. Are you serious with this?Da Guru said:
The players are not protesting the NFL or perceived discrimination against AAs by the NFL, so a token show of programming for an hour by the NFL Network each week to pay lip service to diversity is laughable as would not address the real issues that Kaepernick first raised in his protest which has carried into this season.Da Guru said:
Has this affected you personally or anyone you know? Nice to know that most people having a problem with then entire protest from the start fail to have any empathy for reasons they are taking a knee in the first place.
Good leap, sorry my beliefs here really don't fit your narrative. I don't really care if the players take a knee or not and have no problem if they protest. They have the right to do whatever they choose and people have a right to not watch the games and buy tickets/merchandise as a response if they choose. I'm also fine with the discussion. At the end of the day like it or not this will come down to business and this will shake out one way or the other. Either they'll make their point and the public will back them or it won't. But it's hypocritical for players to be activists about this and then nobody has recounted any of their initial statements criticizing the LVPD for something that simply wasn't true.
The kneeling has nobody talking about anything other than the kneeling.
I've asked several times what good has come from all this. All I've gotten is "well people are talking about it".
Something new happen? All I know is the LVPD contradicted Bennett, which, in case you haven't noticed false statements by police are part of the issue.
LVPD released the video of the incident, it doesn't show excessive force and at least that I've seen there is not a point where an officer threatens to "blow his head off" as Bennett claimed. They did check to make sure the handcuffs he was put in while detained weren't too tight.
That's one of the problems. This topic gets more attention that Nazi's running over and killing innocent people on this board. Gee, I wonder why that is.
Edited video. Cop involved didn't have his body cam on (as always). Same old same old.
http://time.com/collection/2017-time-100/4736257/colin-kaepernick/
So again..people are talking about him/it. Alot of the talking I hear/read about it is negative
Says the guy that spends all morning copying his twitter feed into multiple threadssquistion said:
Yeah I tend to believe what the video shows. Kinda like I believe 9/11 happened, etc. Glad I could trigger you though.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2735952-lvmpd-body-cam-footage-in-michael-bennett-incident-released
So the entire encounter apparently did a 180 on a dime between that one officer and the officers who did happen to have theirs on. Got it. I don't know why given that compelling case we haven't had a civil suit brought yet as Bennett threatened.
You haven't seen video of the actual arrest. It has not been shown.
Pretty much what we stated before, the remainder of the encounter was either consistent with the other videos or it was a complete and total 180 from what we know occurred from the video that is present.
I believe officer attitudes can change when they realize they're not dealing with a nobody, yeah.
That's your right to believe whatever you want. The evidence we have doesn't show any corroboration of Bennett's story. What we do have shows the opposite as far as the way he is being treated, inconsistent with the way he portrayed it. You're basically taking the stance of saying if the police can't prove a negative, then I believe they are guilty.
eh...pretty much everyone was over it and Kaepernick was an afterthought not even playing until Trump opened his mouth again and made a stupid statement that rallied the troops...
Given what's going on in the NFL over the past 1.5 seasons that's a lot easier to speculate on than why the officer in this case would have committed the acts he was accused of.
Someone is lying, I don't have to speculate as to that. What evidence we do have doesn't back up his claim. To believe the officer's side you have to assume that the encounter was consistent with what we have already seen. To believe Bennett's account, you are assuming what evidence we have is a red herring, totally and completely different from what would have had to occurred between Bennett and the LVPD. You're also saying that you expect them to be able to prove a negative.
We have tons and tons and tons of evidence that police routinely behave exactly as Bennett describes.
They put out a statement backing up an employee who has been accused of a horrible act where there is absolutely no evidence he did anything wrong. I'm not sure what you'd have them do in this case.
Yet his twitter feed is more relevant to the topic than complaining about it constantly and
probaly 75% of his posts are from his feed
how soon until dear scooter tim defends this style
while following him around.
This is what is very wrong with our President and all people who believe this. If you take away people's rights to do just that then this is not longer a free country. No one will argue that it's not a good thing to disrespect our country but you can not force people not too. That is not freedom.
