“It’s definitely out of control”, Munnerlyn said.
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“It’s just unfortunate. But the thing about it is these things have been going on for decades and decades on end”. Right now I’d definitely be anxious.
“Football is definitely an escape for a lot of people”, he said. And that demonstration will be even larger, Mayes predicted, to make sure Panthers players can’t ignore it.
Unrest in Charlotte on Wednesday left one man on life support as protests against the killing of an African-American man by police on Tuesday turned violent.
The Baltimore Orioles and Chicago White Sox played a game in an empty stadium in 2015 because of concerns for fan safety following rioting in Baltimore after a 25-year-old black man died in police custody.
Conversely, the Panthers organization is also said to be considering adding an increased police presence at the Carolina-hosted game. “It’s not the way to go about things”. I am not happy with how the justice has been dealt with over the years, the state of oppression in our community.
“We all have to be held accountable and when is enough enough?”
Coleman, who scored two touchdowns last weekend, will miss at least one month after breaking his hand during practice on Wednesday, the latest setback to a team reeling from injuries to two starting quarterbacks in the season’s first two weeks.
Tre Boston, for example, wouldn’t discount the idea of kneeling during the national anthem and following Kaepernick’s lead. So do I see myself taking that knee? “And again, I think it’s about education, about learning, about people understanding and knowing what’s really, truly happening and going on and learning to be patient so we can find out exactly what the truth is and then go from there”. “And sometimes it can feel disrespectful when you send your message across and somebody doesn’t believe in it”.
“Absolutely agree that there is a problem in this country”, Davis said.
“I know from being a black person, it’s a lot of black people that don’t do right by black people”.
The protests, which began Tuesday night in the areas near the shooting, moved to Charlotte’s downtown area on Wednesday, closer to where the Panthers play.
“If you look at the way the South is and the way the game of football is, it has a unique way of bringing people together”, Panthers linebacker Thomas Davis said, via Bill Voth of Black and Blue Review.
“I don’t think it will affect us”.
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Buildings were damaged, including broken windows at the Charlotte Convention Center and NASCAR Hall of Fame and a breach that took place at the NASCAR Hall of Fame, according to news reports out of Charlotte.
