https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/29778-police-urge-boycott-of-miami-dolphins-over-anthem-protests

“During the playing of the National Anthem at last Thursday night’s preseason National Football League (NFL) games, 15 players from five teams staged various forms of protest, including players from the Miami Dolphins.

This week, the Broward County Police Benevolent Association, one of the largest police unions in South Florida, reacted by urging its members (and all other law enforcement officers in South Florida) to boycott the NFL in general, and the Dolphins in particular. Many officers are particularly offended at the protests, which depict police officers as routinely mistreating African Americans.

Dolphin players who did not stand respectfully for the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner included Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson, two wide receivers, who each took a knee. Defensive end Robert Quinn stood, but shook his head, while raising a right clenched fist high in the air.

Colin Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49er quarterback who launched the protests in 2016, tweeted praise for the Dolphin players, specifically Stills, saying that the former receiver from the University of Oklahoma “continued his protest of systemic oppression by taking a knee … Stay strong brothers!”

Kaepernick also expressed support in 2016 for the communist revolution in Cuba by wearing a shirt favorable to Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro.

While some have tried to obscure what the protests are all about, downplaying the anti-patriotic tone, Kaepernick was quite explicit regarding his intent when he began kneeling two years ago. “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick explained at the time. “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way.”

Kaepernick charged then that many police officers were targeting blacks. “There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.” (Emphasis added.) In other words, Kaepernick does not care for the country because it allegedly “oppresses black people,” and he thinks police get paid leave for killing African American and are “getting away with murder.”

Later, Kaepernick told reporters that he was not against the military. “The media painted this as I’m anti-American, anti-men-and-women of the military and that’s not the case at all. I realize that men and women of the military go out and sacrifice their lives and put themselves in harm’s way for my freedom of speech.”

Kaepernick became a free agent in the off-season in 2017, and no team has opted to offer him a player’s contract since then.”