Gabe Kapler: ‘I don’t plan on coming out for the anthem going forward until I really feel higher in regards to the path of our country’

Speaking in the dugout of the Nice American Ballpark in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kapler stated, "I do not plan on coming out for the anthem going ahead till I really feel higher concerning the route of our country."

"We weren't given bravery, and we aren't free. The police on the scene put a mother in handcuffs as she begged them to go in and save her children. They blocked mother and father making an attempt to organize to charge in to stop the shooter, together with a father who learned his daughter was murdered whereas he argued with the cops. We aren't free when politicians resolve that the lobbyist and gun industries are extra vital than our kids's freedom to go to high school while not having bulletproof backpacks and lively shooter drills," Kapler wrote.

Later, Kapler wrote about his disillusionment with what he known as "the dearth of supply 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 want that I might have demonstrated what I learned from my dad, that if you're dissatisfied with your country, you let it be identified via protest. The home of the brave should encourage this."

Kerr refused to discuss basketball ahead of Recreation 4 of the Warriors' sequence towards the Dallas Mavericks, instead raising his voice as he railed towards gun violence within the wake of Tuesday's capturing.

"In the last 10 days, we've had aged Black folks killed in a supermarket in Buffalo, we have had Asian churchgoers killed in Southern California, now we've got youngsters murdered at school," Kerr told reporters in the beginning of the press convention.

"When are we going to do one thing? I'm tired. I'm so tired of getting up right here and providing condolences to the devastated families which are out there ... I'm bored with the moments of silence. Enough."