President Donald Trump suggested the police brutality and racial injustice issues at the heart of NFL players’ National Anthem protests have largely been addressed by his own criminal justice reform initiatives. Trump’s comments in the CBS interview, set to air ahead of the Super Bowl, referred to his signing into law in December a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill. “They haven’t been kneeling and they have been respecting the flag and their ratings have been terrific ever since,” Trump said. Trump continued to bash the player protests, a movement started in 2016 by then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. And I think there are plenty of places and times you can protest and you can do a lot.

Source: Huffington Post February 03, 2019 14:48 UTC