Responding to the unrest and protests following the death in police custody of George Floyd, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell issued a video statement Friday apologizing to players for 'not listening' to them about racism. An NFL spokesman told ABC News on Sunday that Goodell's statement
Responding to the unrest and protests following the death in police custody of George Floyd, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell issued a video statement Friday apologizing to players for"not listening" to them about racism.
— NFL June 5, 2020 In a video titled"I am George Floyd" and posted on the NFL's Twitter page, a group of NFL players including Deshaun Watson, DeAndre Hopkins and Tyrann Mathieu, delivered this message:"How many times do we need to ask you to listen to your players? What will it take? For one of us to be murdered by police brutality?"— NFL June 5, 2020 "We will not be silent.
Goodell spoke with the Players Coalition -- a group of current and former NFL players advocating for social justice --- one day after Floyd was killed in Minneapolis, and has also contacted some players who were featured in the video, he added.Over the past couple of seasons, on-field protests have waned, but Eric Reid -- who was the first to take a knee alongside Kaepernick -- and players Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson have continued to take a knee.
Story continuesKaepernick, who hasn't played in the NFL since 2016, first took a knee on the football field during the playing of the national anthem in 2016 to protest police brutality, sparking a nationwide movement. Joe Lockhart, who served as executive vice president in charge of communications and government affairs at the NFL from 2016-2018, issued a mea culpa in a CNN op-ed on May 30 titled,"Now is the moment to sign Colin Kaepernick."
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