Gabe Kapler: ‘I don’t plan on coming out for the anthem going ahead until I feel better in regards to the direction of our nation’

Speaking in the dugout of the Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kapler said, "I don't plan on popping out for the anthem going ahead until I really feel better concerning the path of our country."

"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 making an attempt to arrange to cost in to stop the shooter, together with a father who learned his daughter was murdered while he argued with the cops. We aren't free when politicians determine that the lobbyist and gun industries are more necessary than our children's freedom to go to high school without needing bulletproof backpacks and energetic shooter drills," Kapler wrote.

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

"I'm not okay with the state of this nation. I wish I hadn't let my discomfort compromise my integrity. I want that I may have demonstrated what I discovered from my dad, that if you're dissatisfied together with your nation, you let it's recognized via protest. The house of the brave should encourage this."

Kerr refused to speak about basketball ahead of Sport 4 of the Warriors' series in opposition to the Dallas Mavericks, instead elevating his voice as he railed towards gun violence in the wake of Tuesday's taking pictures.

"In the final 10 days, we've had elderly Black individuals killed in a grocery store in Buffalo, we've had Asian churchgoers killed in Southern California, now we've kids murdered at school," Kerr instructed reporters in the beginning of the press convention.

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