Gabe Kapler: ‘I do not plan on coming out for the anthem going forward until I really feel better about the path of our country’

Talking in the dugout of the Nice American Ballpark in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kapler said, "I do not plan on popping out for the anthem going forward until I really feel higher about the course of our country."

"We weren't given bravery, and we aren't free. The police on the scene put a mother in handcuffs as she begged them to go in and save her youngsters. They blocked dad and mom trying to organize to charge in to cease the shooter, together with a father who discovered his daughter was murdered whereas he argued with the cops. We aren't free when politicians determine that the lobbyist and gun industries are more vital than our kids's freedom to go to high school without having bulletproof backpacks and active shooter drills," Kapler wrote.

Later, Kapler wrote about his disillusionment with what he referred to as "the shortage of supply of the promise of what our nationwide anthem represents."

"I am not okay with the state of this country. 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 once you're dissatisfied together with your nation, you let it's known by way of protest. The house of the brave ought to encourage this."

Kerr refused to discuss basketball ahead of Sport 4 of the Warriors' collection in opposition to the Dallas Mavericks, as a substitute elevating his voice as he railed towards gun violence in the wake of Tuesday's shooting.

"In the final 10 days, we have had aged Black individuals killed in a supermarket in Buffalo, we've had Asian churchgoers killed in Southern California, now we have kids murdered in school," Kerr instructed reporters initially of the press convention.

"When are we going to do one thing? I'm tired. I am so bored with getting up here and providing condolences to the devastated families which are on the market ... I am bored with the moments of silence. Enough."