Detroit Lions cancel practice to protest police shooting of Jacob Blake

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'Today practice wasn’t on any of our minds,' safety Duron Harmon says.

“It’s not okay,” Harmon said. “It never will be okay. This organization is going to make sure that we speak out on it. We can’t be silent no more. Nobody can be silent. If you’re being silent, you’re okay with it. You’re okay with what’s happening. And nobody in this organization, nobody on this team, is okay with it. So we’re going to do our part to create change.

Lions players said they’d had previous conversations amid the national unrest following the death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis in May. But with NFL teams limited to remotely conducted activities during the offseason because of the novelAD

 

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Most disturbing: This is exactly what the idea of 'defunding' police is. Not to rid the whole dept., rather the concept argues that, ONLY cops with guns blazin' may NOT be the best approach or response to an emotional and highly charged, domestic incident. And now Jacob.....smh

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