Al Sharpton rips Roger Goodell, demands Colin Kaepernick get his job back at George Floyd's funeral
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Wednesday, 10 June 2020 05:52
Al Sharpton rips Roger Goodell, demands Colin Kaepernick get his job back at George Floyd's funeral
Here is a portion of what Rev. Al Sharpton said at George Floyd’s funeral in Houston on June 9:
All this family wants is justice. Oh it’s nice to see some people change their mind, head of the NFL said, “Yeah, maybe we was wrong. Football players, maybe they did have the right to peacefully protest.” Well don’t apologize. Give Colin Kaepernick a job back. Don’t come with some empty apology. Take a man’s livelihood. Strip a man down of his talents and four years later when the whole world is marching, all of a sudden you go and do a FaceTime talking about you sorry? Minimizing the value of our lives. You sorry? Then repay the damage you did to the career you stood down because when Colin took a knee, he took it for the families in this building and we don’t want an apology, we want him repaid. Equal justice. Equal fairness. We’re not anti-anybody, we are trying to stop people from being anti-us. We want the law to apply equally, and you don’t need a whole lot of studying about that. Yes, we need new laws. Yes, the Congress has stepped up, the Congressional Black Caucus has come, yes we need to close these no knock laws. Yes we need to stop where a policeman can just say based on what they thought, they can use lethal force. Yes we need residency requirement. All of what they propose is what we need. But we have enough right now to prosecute policemen that hold somebody down 8 minutes and 46 seconds.