In his highly political comments at the funeral of George Floyd on Tuesday, social justice activist and MSNBC host Al Sharpton launched into a rant against the NFL in response to commissioner Roger Goodell apologizing for the league discouraging players from protesting the national anthem. Instead of apologizing, Sharpton told Goodell, “give Colin Kaepernick a job back.”
On Friday, the NFL released a video statement in which Commissioner Goodell expressed solidarity with those protesting the death of Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American who died after a white police officer kept his knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes during an arrest. In the statement, Goodell said the league was “wrong” not to listen “earlier” to NFL players who were protesting police brutality.
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