“I didn’t get paid to sing the national anthem nor was this moment about any sort of fame,” Lawrence wrote. “We’re being unjustly killed and overly criminalized,” Lawrence wrote early Saturday in a Facebook post. MIAMI—A woman performing the national anthem prior to an NBA preseason game in Miami did so while kneeling at midcourt. “All I can say is what we’ve seen in multiple preseason games so far is our players standing for the national anthem,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Friday in New York. “It would be my hope that they would continue to stand for the national anthem.

Source: The Star October 22, 2016 19:18 UTC