Gabe Kapler: ‘I don’t plan on coming out for the anthem going ahead until I really feel higher about the route of our nation’

Talking in the dugout of the Nice American Ballpark in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kapler stated, "I do not plan on coming out for the anthem going forward till I really feel better concerning the route 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 making an attempt to arrange to cost in to cease the shooter, together with a father who discovered his daughter was murdered whereas he argued with the cops. We aren't free when politicians resolve that the lobbyist and gun industries are more essential than our kids's freedom to go to school without needing bulletproof backpacks and active shooter drills," Kapler wrote.

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

"I'm not okay with the state of this country. I wish I hadn't let my discomfort compromise my integrity. I wish that I could have demonstrated what I discovered from my dad, that if you're dissatisfied with your country, you let it's known by means of protest. The house of the courageous ought to encourage this."

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

"Within the final 10 days, we have had elderly Black folks killed in a supermarket in Buffalo, we've had Asian churchgoers killed in Southern California, now we've got children murdered at college," Kerr advised reporters initially of the press conference.

"When are we going to do something? I am drained. I'm so bored with getting up here and providing condolences to the devastated households which might be out there ... I am tired of the moments of silence. Enough."