In a Friday interview with Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Company,” former star NFL running back Herschel Walker said the NFL “has got a mess on their hands” when it comes to their handling of promoting Black Lives Matter and social activism.
Walker questioned why the league has not done proper research on what exactly they are allowing to be promoted.
“One of the biggest problems, I think, the NFL has got a mess on their hands,” Walker emphasized. “You know, at the very beginning, I said you should not put politics and sports, but since they have, it seems like their researchers are not doing the research. You know, most of the people that are putting on their helmet have … problems with the law.”
“I wouldn’t want to put anyone that had a spat with the law on the back of my helmet, and why they’re not putting a police officer that’s been killed on the back of their helmet? Why are they not putting a young child killed by a stray bullet on the back of their helmet? But you know, when you look at the NFL overall, and I ask a question here which is very, very important, why the NFL is promoting Black Lives Matter because I heard one of the cofounders say we train Marxists. So, that tells me right there, what are you doing, why are you guys not doing the research, unless you really believe in a trained Marxists that you’re going to represent and that the players represent that.”
The Heisman winner called on the NFL to turn around from their mistake and do “the right thing” because the NFL is telling young men and women that it is OK to break the law and not to cooperate with the police.
“The right thing today is law and order,” he added. “We need law and order. We need people to get themselves together and someone needs to take control, and I think that’s got to be the commissioner. You know, if you’re the commissioner, sometimes being a leader people will not like what you do but you gotta do what’s right. … Right now, we’re telling our young men and women that it’s OK to break the law where it is not. We’re telling the young African-American men not to cooperate with the police because you seem to be idolized and be heroes. Well, that is not what we need to be telling.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/09/18/herschel-walker-nfls-got-a-mess-on-their-hands-with-blm-support-not-doing-their-research/
Report: Steelers Organization Chose to Put the Name of an Alleged Drive-By Shooter on Players Helmets
The Pittsburgh Steelers organization made the decision to put the name of Antwon Rose, an accused drive-by shooter, on their players helmets. That, according to Steelers safety Minkah Fitzpatrick who says putting Rose’s name on the helmets was not the players call.
“It was mostly made from people upstairs and everything else like that,” Fitzpatrick told ESPN. “Don’t know exactly who. Don’t know exactly how. But we did. We knew that we were going to have somebody on the back of our helmets, and it wasn’t exactly clear on what it was going to be. It was mostly made by everyone upstairs.”
That organizational decision was not embraced by all. Steelers tackle Alejandro Villanueva chose to display the name of Army hero Alwyn Cashe, instead of Rose. Center Maurkice Pouncey took to Instagram on Thursday to distance himself from management’s decision, saying that he regretted wearing Rose’s name and that he wasn’t given enough information about Rose’s background.
As Breitbart’s Warner Todd Huston reports:
Antwon Rose, Jr., was shot by a police officer on June 19 of 2018, after a car he was in was pulled over.
In a statement, the Steelers explained: ‘While the driver was being handcuffed on suspicion of being involved in an incident that happened earlier that evening, a frightened Rose fled from the car. The cell phone video a bystander captured showed Rose running, and then you could hear gunshots and see as he was fatally shot in the back three times by a white East Pittsburgh Police Officer.’
However, what that statement does not mention is that Rose was identified as being involved in a drive-by shooting that had occurred not long before being pulled over. The victim in the shooting told police that Rose was the shooter. Police had every reason to assume that Rose was armed and dangerous.
In addition, the officer who shot and killed Rose was found not guilty of improperly killing the teen. The shooting was deemed justified according to the investigation.
The information on the circumstances of Rose’s death and the accusations against him, were readily available to the Steelers and would have been detected by anyone concerned with facts. But, of course, the social justice movement of which the NFL is now clearly apart, apparently believes that any and all officer-involved shootings involving black men constitute instances of racist policing.
The Steelers have not yet said whether they will continue to display Rose’s name on their helmets.
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2020/09/18/report-steelers-organization-chose-to-put-the-name-of-an-alleged-drive-by-shooter-on-players-helmets/
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