Gabe Kapler: ‘I do not plan on coming out for the anthem going forward till I really feel better concerning the direction of our country’

Speaking in the dugout of the Nice American Ballpark in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kapler said, "I don't plan on coming out for the anthem going ahead until I really feel better about the direction of our nation."

"We weren't given bravery, and we aren't free. The police on the scene put a mom in handcuffs as she begged them to go in and save her children. They blocked parents attempting to organize to cost in to stop the shooter, together with a father who realized his daughter was murdered while he argued with the cops. We aren't free when politicians decide that the lobbyist and gun industries are extra essential than our kids's freedom to go to high school without having bulletproof backpacks and energetic shooter drills," Kapler wrote.

Later, Kapler wrote about his disillusionment with what he called "the dearth of delivery of the promise of what our nationwide anthem represents."

"I'm not okay with the state of this nation. I wish I hadn't let my discomfort compromise my integrity. I wish that I may have demonstrated what I discovered from my dad, that once you're dissatisfied along with your country, you let it's recognized via protest. The house of the courageous ought to encourage this."

Kerr refused to talk about basketball forward of Sport 4 of the Warriors' sequence against the Dallas Mavericks, instead raising his voice as he railed against gun violence within the wake of Tuesday's taking pictures.

"Within the last 10 days, we have had elderly Black individuals killed in a supermarket in Buffalo, we've had Asian churchgoers killed in Southern California, now we have kids murdered at college," Kerr told reporters at first of the press convention.

"When are we going to do something? I'm drained. I am so uninterested in getting up here and providing condolences to the devastated families which are out there ... I am bored with the moments of silence. Sufficient."