A Georgia college student has won a $145,000 settlement after being disciplined for taking a knee in protest during the national anthem when she was a cheerleader.
Dean charged in a lawsuit last year that her rights were violated by college and local officials after the cheerleaders had silently protested police brutality during the national anthem at a football game in September 2017. Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick launched the protest movement in 2016 to raise awareness about racial inequality and police brutality — a move that infuriated President Donald Trump.
After the kneeling protest, the cheerleaders, known as the Kennesaw Five, were not allowed on the field at the next game until after the national anthem played. Officials of the state university system concluded just two month later, however, that the women had a constitutional right to protest and that Kennesaw should not have interfered unless their actions caused a disruption.
"I didn't think that it was right for minorities to have to walk around and be terrified every single day."
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