Gabe Kapler: ‘I do not plan on popping out for the anthem going forward till I really feel higher in regards to the route of our nation’

Speaking within the dugout of the Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kapler said, "I don't plan on coming out for the anthem going ahead until I feel higher about the route of our nation."

"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 parents making an attempt to organize to charge in to stop the shooter, together with a father who discovered his daughter was murdered while he argued with the cops. We aren't free when politicians determine that the lobbyist and gun industries are more necessary than our kids's freedom to go to school with no need bulletproof backpacks and active shooter drills," Kapler wrote.

Later, Kapler wrote about his disillusionment with what he referred to 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 want that I might have demonstrated what I learned from my dad, that when you're dissatisfied together with your country, you let it be recognized through protest. The house of the courageous should encourage this."

Kerr refused to discuss basketball ahead of Game 4 of the Warriors' sequence towards the Dallas Mavericks, instead elevating his voice as he railed in opposition to gun violence in the wake of Tuesday's shooting.

"In the final 10 days, we have had aged Black folks killed in a supermarket in Buffalo, we have had Asian churchgoers killed in Southern California, now we have children murdered at school," Kerr informed reporters at first of the press conference.

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