Four off-duty police officers working a Minnesota Lynx game walked out after players made comments regarding racial profiling.
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On Saturday, four captains for the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx held a press conference to address the weekend shootings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana, Philando Castile in Minnesota, and five Dallas police officers during a sniper attack at a protest: Brent Thompson, Patrick Zamarripa, Michael Krol, Lorne Ahrens, and Michael Smith. The shirt also showed the Dallas police shield above the phrase “Black Lives Matter”.
And, the Post notes, the president of the Minneapolis Police Federation “commended” the officers for their decision to quit, warning that other officers may decide to take the same stance, should the need arise. He says they took their names off a list of officers to work future games.
Kroll also mocked the WNBA team, saying there were only ever four off-duty officers working there in addition to normal stadium security “because the Lynx have such a pathetic draw”.
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During a pregame interview, Lynx star Maya Moore said the players were wearing the shirts “to honor and mourn the losses of precious American citizens and to plead for change in all of us”.
The players wore black warmup shirts that read “Change Starts With Us ― Justice and Accountability” on the front. Kroll, who seemed to know an bad lot about something that was happening right that very moment, told the Strib he “commended” the four officers for leaving their off-duty gigs at the Target Center.
“We do not, in any way, condone violence against the men and women who serve on our police force”, Moore said, according to the Star Tribune. The anger they feel is starting to be reflected in a work stoppage, albeit at a private event where off duty officers were serving as security.
Moore denounced the “senseless ambush” of Dallas police.
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Kroll said Lynx had engaged in “unwarranted and reckless” early judgment of the deaths of Sterling and Castile.
