Gabe Kapler: ‘I don’t plan on popping out for the anthem going forward until I really feel higher about the direction of our nation’

Talking within 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 feel better 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 youngsters. They blocked mother and father making an attempt to arrange to charge in to stop the shooter, together with a father who learned 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 necessary than our children's freedom to go to highschool 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 nationwide 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 could have demonstrated what I learned from my dad, that whenever you're dissatisfied with your country, you let it's identified through protest. The house of the brave should encourage this."

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

"Within the last 10 days, we've had aged Black folks killed in a supermarket in Buffalo, we've had Asian churchgoers killed in Southern California, now now we have youngsters murdered at college," Kerr told reporters at the start of the press convention.

"When are we going to do something? I am tired. I am so uninterested in getting up here and providing condolences to the devastated families which might be out there ... I am bored with the moments of silence. Sufficient."