San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler said Friday he will refuse to take the field for the national anthem in protest of government inaction on gun violence following Tuesday’s deadly shooting at an elementary school in Texas. He reflected on the sports world’s immediate reaction to an 18-year-old gunman killing 19 elementary school students and two teachers. Kapler’s demonstration echoes past actions by professional athletes, most famously former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who decided to kneel during the anthem to protest racial injustice. (Kapler himself became the first Major League Baseball manager to kneel during the anthem in July 2020.) AdvertisementOthers in professional sports have spoken out on gun violence in the days since the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

Source: Huffington Post May 28, 2022 11:08 UTC