The Milwaukee Bucks refused to take the court for a playoff game against the Orlando Magic to protest the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. We stand with the decision of the players of the Milwaukee Bucks to protest this injustice and support the collective decision to postpone all of today's games." Ashley Landis A reporter sits beside an empty court after the first-round playoff game between the Milwaukee Bucks and Orlando Magic was postponed. A group of Bucks players turned out for a July protest in Milwaukee with T-shirts that bore some of George Floyd's last words, "I can't breathe." Tennis star Osaka tweeted that as a black woman, she felt compelled to pull out of the tournament to put a focus on police shooting black people.

Source: Stuff August 26, 2020 20:59 UTC