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Will Detroit Lions Protest Of Jacob Blake Shooting Inspire More NFL Protests?

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J.R. Gamble
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August 25, 2020
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    In the aftermath of ANOTHER police shooting of an unarmed Black man, the Detroit Lions canceled practice on Tuesday in protest of the callous Jacob Blake shooting in Wisconsin. 

    The Detroit Lions canceled practice in an unprecedented protest. Here’s how it happened. https://t.co/FmMFggLNou pic.twitter.com/ajxBBRhM99

    — kyle meinke (@kmeinke) August 25, 2020

    Captured in ANOTHER disturbing execution video, Blake, a 29-year-old Black man was shot seven times in the back by Kenosha police as he tried to enter an SUV on Sunday night, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. 

    https://www.instagram.com/p/CEQr5CCjzkL/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

    The cops, so callous and thirsty for blood, didn’t care that the unarmed Blake’s 3, 5 and 8-year-old sons were in the car. Those boys have been indoctrinated and introduced to the systemic racism that will plague them throughout their lives.  

    Detroit Lions head coach Matt Patricia said: “I didn’t feel right about going into practice and running some football drills without talking to my team.” 

    The players were obviously affected by the latest murder of an innocent Black man by police and three hours after practice was scheduled to start, the entire team gathered in the driveway of Allen Park headquarters to announce to the world why they wouldn’t be practicing 

    “The world can’t go on,” they wrote on one side of a whiteboard. “We won’t be silent,” is what the other side said.

    Will this spark more protests in the NFL?

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      J.R. Gamble
      JR Gamble joined The Shadow League in 2012. The General Manager of Content & Social Media is in his 25th year of covering sports and culture professionally. He has covered a wide variety of major sports and entertainment topics across different mediums, including radio, newspapers, magazines and national TV. His passion is baseball, the culturing of baseball and preserving and documenting the historically-impactful accomplishments and contributions of African-Americans in baseball.
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