Colin Kaepernick took a stand against police violence on Friday night by taking a seat. “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. Kaepernick has long been a supporter of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, recently taking a stand in the wake of the police killing of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La. “This is what lynchings look like in 2016!” he wrote on Instagram accompanying a video of Sterling’s shooing. “Another murder in the streets because the color of a man’s skin, at the hands of the people who they say will protect us.

Source: thestar August 27, 2016 21:13 UTC