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Source: The Guardian
Officers union calls for St Louis players to be disciplined over
hands-up gesture and threaten boycott of NFL advertisers
Jon Swaine in New York
The Guardian, Monday 1 December 2014 10.36 GMT
A Missouri police union has condemned players from the St Louis Rams football team for making hands-up gestures on the field in solidarity with Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old shot dead in Ferguson, and threatened to boycott NFL advertisers in response.
The St Louis Police Officers Association claimed that officers found the actions of Tavon Austin, Stedman Bailey, Kenny Britt, Jared Cook, Chris Givens and Tre Mason to be tasteless, offensive and inflammatory, and demanded that they be disciplined.
Five of the players emerged for their game against the Oakland Raiders on Sunday with their hands aloft, a gesture used by protesters who claim that Brown was surrendering when he was shot dead by officer Darren Wilson on 9 August. A grand just last week decided not to indict Wilson.
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FarPoint
(12,344 posts)It sure was a powerful message. I have seen Facebook posts from Law Enforcement acquaintances and ...Oh My! They are pisst.
adigal
(7,581 posts)they aren't that pissed.
FarPoint
(12,344 posts)Spread the message with the NBA....and more...
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)What do the police not understand about the fact that those players have the right to protest? The police would serve us all better if they were to root out the corruption in their ranks.
BeyondGeography
(39,369 posts)Offensive? I'll say.
Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)at the stadium.
N.Y. to Paris
(110 posts)I'd like to see them all come out like that....the conversation needs to start.
Sorry, gunslingers, you created it, now live with it.....
Catherine Vincent
(34,488 posts)Be offended!
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)...
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Iggo
(47,549 posts)What's "tasteless, offensive and inflammatory" is letting Wilson get away with murder.
Hands up for Mike Brown.
:middlefinger: @ Missouri police.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)To dig the hole deeper.
What a bunch of clueless fuckwits.
Power tripping gone amok.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)because if they aren't, it's time to pull the plug.
Shooting innocent, law-abiding teenagers in the street is "Inflammatory".
Protesting such carnage is the right thing to do.
damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)Time to shine as much light as possible on the issue of police brutality. Days of the "warrior cop" must come to an end.
monmouth4
(9,694 posts)DFW
(54,358 posts)I think one can safely say that the fatal shooting of Michael Brown was also "tasteless, offensive and inflammatory."
So far, no one seems to have suffered any fatal consequences of the football players' action.
The same cannot, alas, be said for the actions of the St. Louis area police.
a kennedy
(29,655 posts)for, what those players did...... She IS a repug and soooooooooo against the Negros getting ANY benefits. Ugh...... and yah, she calls them Negros.
adigal
(7,581 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,813 posts)Waaaaaah waaaaaaaaah
What are they going to do - shoot these guys because they aren't stepping and fetching for them?
I hope those ball players double down and bust balls with this.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)through playoffs and Superbowl.
Coventina
(27,101 posts)Vinca
(50,267 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)especially for people that do dirty jobs that most people would not do.
However,this bit of bullshit reminds me why many Unions started to fall; a bunch of people of the dominant skin complexion decided they did not want minorities, and therefore,the very prolelatariat that would have been the support for them, did not show.