Gabe Kapler: ‘I do not plan on coming out for the anthem going forward until I feel higher about the course of our nation’

Speaking in the dugout of the Nice American Ballpark in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kapler stated, "I don't plan on coming out for the anthem going forward till I really feel higher concerning the course of our country."

"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 children. They blocked parents making an attempt to organize to charge in to stop the shooter, including 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 essential than our kids's freedom to go to high school without having bulletproof backpacks and lively shooter drills," Kapler wrote.

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

"I'm not okay with the state of this country. I want I hadn't let my discomfort compromise my integrity. I wish that I might have demonstrated what I discovered from my dad, that while you're dissatisfied along with your country, you let it's known by way of protest. The home of the brave ought to encourage this."

Kerr refused to talk about basketball ahead of Recreation 4 of the Warriors' series against the Dallas Mavericks, as an alternative raising his voice as he railed towards gun violence within the wake of Tuesday's shooting.

"Within the final 10 days, we have had aged Black people killed in a supermarket in Buffalo, we have had Asian churchgoers killed in Southern California, now we've got youngsters murdered at school," Kerr instructed reporters firstly of the press convention.

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