N B A George Floyd. A. gamers have gone even additional.. And the issue of police brutality toward African-Americans has long been a visceral one in a predominantly black league.
Demetrius Freeman for The New York TimesA broad range of athletes and sports figures have issued statements on social media… The proximate cause is the video images of yet another black man killed by an officer of the law, the death of George Perry Floyd outside Cup Foods, on Thirty-eighth Street and Chicago Avenue South. A. players have gone even further. Stephen Jackson has been a consistent presence at protests and news conferences in Minneapolis since George Floyd's death last month.
A broad range of athletes and sports figures have issued statements on social media condemning the killing of George Floyd and other police violence against African-Americans.
Demonstrators protesting police brutality on Sunday outside Barclays Center, home of the Nets.
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