Gabe Kapler: ‘I do not plan on coming out for the anthem going forward till I feel better about the route of our country’

Talking in the dugout of the Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kapler mentioned, "I don't plan on popping out for the anthem going forward until I really feel better about the path 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 kids. They blocked dad and mom attempting to prepare to charge in to cease the shooter, including a father who realized his daughter was murdered while he argued with the cops. We aren't free when politicians decide that the lobbyist and gun industries are extra essential than our kids's freedom to go to school with no need bulletproof backpacks and lively shooter drills," Kapler wrote.

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

"I am not okay with the state of this nation. I want I hadn't let my discomfort compromise my integrity. I wish that I might have demonstrated what I realized from my dad, that while you're dissatisfied together with your nation, you let or not it's identified through protest. The house of the brave ought to encourage this."

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

"In the last 10 days, we have had aged Black individuals killed in a grocery store in Buffalo, we have had Asian churchgoers killed in Southern California, now we now have youngsters murdered at school," Kerr informed reporters firstly of the press convention.

"When are we going to do something? I'm tired. I am so tired of getting up here and providing condolences to the devastated families that are out there ... I am tired of the moments of silence. Enough."