St. Louis-area youth football team kneels during anthem
Jay Busbee
Shutdown CornerSep 20, 2017, 7:53 AM
Colin Kaepernick’s protests of the national anthem have run throughout the national conversation for more than a year, and now his influence has reached even the youngest levels of football.
All the players on Cahokia Quarterback Club youth football team, located in Belleville, Illinois, a suburb of St. Louis, knelt during the “The Star-Spangled Banner” prior to a game on Sunday. The team of 8-year-olds made the move, coach Orlando Gooden said, in response to riots wracking the city in the wake of another white police officer being found not guilty in a fatal shooting of a black man in a case with several questionable circumstances.
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