“We will not be silent”
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Detroit Lions forego training and send a message against police violence
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Taylor Decker, Detroit Lions Offensive Tackle, speaks outside the club’s training ground.
Photo: AP / Carlos Osorio
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Detroit The professionals of the Detroit Lions from the US Football League NFL have given up their training and instead spread a message against police violence. Football is no longer important today, said a player on the team.
In front of the club’s training center, the players gathered around a board that read “We will not be silent” and “The world cannot just go on.”
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This is how the players reacted to the Jacob Blake case. The black man was shot from behind by a police officer at the weekend. According to media reports, 29-year-old Blake was hit by seven bullets in the back.
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“As a team, we looked each other in the eye and realized that football is no longer important today,” said Safety Duron Harmon, explaining the cancellation of the unit: “We have a platform on which we not only raise awareness, but also bring about change can.”
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At the end of May, the black George Floyd was killed by police violence. Since then, the “Black Lives Matter” movement, which was founded in 2013, has been very active in the USA, and is supported by many sports stars. In 2016, quarterback Colin Kaepernick in the NFL began to demonstrate against police violence by kneeling at the US anthem.
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