Gabe Kapler: ‘I don’t plan on coming out for the anthem going ahead till I really feel higher about the direction of our country’

Talking within the dugout of the Nice American Ballpark in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kapler stated, "I don't plan on coming out for the anthem going forward until I feel higher in regards to the path of our nation."

"We weren't given bravery, and we aren't free. The police on the scene put a mom in handcuffs as she begged them to go in and save her youngsters. They blocked parents trying to arrange to cost in to stop the shooter, including a father who realized his daughter was murdered while he argued with the cops. We aren't free when politicians resolve that the lobbyist and gun industries are extra vital than our youngsters's freedom to go to school while not having bulletproof backpacks and lively shooter drills," Kapler wrote.

Later, Kapler wrote about his disillusionment with what he called "the shortage of delivery of the promise of what our nationwide anthem represents."

"I am not okay with the state of this nation. I wish I hadn't let my discomfort compromise my integrity. I wish that I might have demonstrated what I discovered from my dad, that once you're dissatisfied along with your nation, you let or not it's known by protest. The house of the courageous should encourage this."

Kerr refused to discuss basketball ahead of Sport 4 of the Warriors' sequence in opposition to the Dallas Mavericks, as an alternative raising his voice as he railed against gun violence in the wake of Tuesday's capturing.

"In the final 10 days, we've had elderly Black people killed in a grocery store in Buffalo, we've had Asian churchgoers killed in Southern California, now we've got kids murdered at college," Kerr informed reporters at the start of the press convention.

"When are we going to do something? I am tired. I am so uninterested in getting up right here and offering condolences to the devastated households that are on the market ... I'm tired of the moments of silence. Enough."