The Schalke Bundesliga professional Weston McKennie has criticized the us President and Donald Trump for its behavior after the violent death of George Floyd’s sharp. “In my eyes, you can call him a racist,” said the American, national player of the Sport Bild: “I don’t think Trump is the Right man for the Job of President.”
The 21-Year-old does not believe that Trump understand what a responsibility he had to the entire United States. “I think that he is ignorant. I support him not a bit” said McKennie, does not want him “to meet at all. To be quite honest! Even if I had the Chance. Therefore, I want to tell him anything.“
McKennie had demanded as several other Bundesliga players on the Whitsun week-end of justice for Floyd. At the 0:1 Schalke 04 against Werder Bremen at the end of may McKennie had worn a black ribbon with the inscription “Justice for George”. Floyd was on 25. May have died during a police operation in Minneapolis, after a white police officer had him down to be a knee in the back of the neck. In many American cities, it came in since then, protests and demonstrations that were often crowded with police violence.
sport sizes a while as Tom Brady, Gregg Popovich, and Giancarlo Stanton in the struggle against police violence in the United States for a change in the law. More than 1400 current and Former professional leagues, the NFL (Football), NBA (Basketball) and MLB (Baseball) signed in the name of “Player Coalition,” a letter to Congress and called on the deputies, a draft law on the abolition of the immunity of police officers agree.
the immunity, it is difficult, officials alleged. That should change after the death of Floyd. Among the prominent signatories of the NFL Quarterbacks Brady (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), Dak Prescott (Dallas Cowboys), and Drew Brees (New Orleans Saints). Also, the NBA coach Steve Kerr (Golden State Warriors) and Gregg Popovich (San Antonio Spurs) signed the Baseball, among other things, MLB Star Giancarlo Stanton (New York Yankees). Also, managers and officials involved in the joint action.
“We are tired of it, to lead discussions on the accountability of the police, who bring nothing”, it said in the Letter. Too many discussions that would have turned a question of whether there is a Problem with police violence, had not been heard. Further, it was said in the letter: “There is a Problem. The world was a witness, as a police officer, Chauvin, George Floyd murdered, and the world is watching now, again, after officials acted with enormous violence against peaceful protesters in front of the White house.“ The time for debate on the “uncontrolled authority” of the police is over, “it is time for a change”.
