StarTribune– Four off-duty Minneapolis police officers working the Minnesota Lynx game at Target Center on Saturday night walked off the job after the players held a news conference denouncing racial profiling, then wore Black Lives Matter pregame warm-up jerseys.
Lt. Bob Kroll, president of the Minneapolis Police Federation, the union that represents rank-and-file officers, praised them for quitting. “I commend them for it,” he said.
Kroll said the four officers also removed themselves from a list of officers working future games. He did not know who the officers were. “Others said they heard about it and they were not going to work Lynx games,” he said.
Asked if other officers will fill in for those who quit, Kroll said, “If [the players] are going to keep their stance, all officers may refuse to work there.”
The three-time WNBA champions wore black T-shirts that read “Change starts with us, justice and accountability” and on the back had Philando Castile’s and Alton Sterling’s names along with “Black Lives Matter” and a Dallas Police Department emblem. more
Well done, officers. Well done.
I imagine it’s still tough for this woman’s basketball league to turn a profit and be taken seriously and this little political statement didn’t help. I wonder if the league headquarters made a call or two to the teams front office explaining things in words they could understand.
I’m glad the cops walked out but it had to have been a tough decision. I’m sure the cops have families and probably depended on the bucks from this gig but it was nice to see that at least 4 placed respect over dollars (however much those dollars were needed). The cops union ought to jump in here and tell it’s members that they are not to take any WNBA security gigs in the future until the four players as well as the organisation issues a formal apology.
Why does a sport with no fans need security? To break up player fights maybe?
Actions have consequences. And the Immutable Law of Unintended Consequences is a bitch. It must be tough to be stuck on Stoopid.
Good on the police officers to walk out. I hope that they did so in a manner that the public noticed.
Dike chicks should be able to defend themselves. Aren’t men as useless as “fish on a bicycle” to them?
Very glad the officers walked away from this leftist clown show.
“The three-time WNBA champions . . . .” Champions of what? The intramural skirmishes?
only the beginning
Now maybe if they announced that they were no longer going to play basketball but would have wet BLM T shirt contests they would get some fans!
Maybe they can get the NFL to write an apology for team.
Minnesota is full of liberal progressives accentuating division.
As the state welcomes more illegal muslim refugees, things will change when Sharia courts are established. Or as in Dearbornistan, when the populace is forced to leave for safer surroundings.
Fortunately, Cagney and Lacey had been lurking outside the locker room and immediately stepped in to fill the hole
created by the sudden resignations.
And yet the wanna be thug bitches still can’t dunk a basketball!
Fortunately, being a WNBA game, there were only 20 people in the arena.
i didn’t even know that the wnba was still in business. i’d kind of forgotten that it had ever existed.