Gabe Kapler: ‘I don’t plan on coming out for the anthem going forward until I feel higher about the direction of our nation’

Talking within the dugout of the Nice American Ballpark in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kapler said, "I don't plan on coming out for the anthem going forward till I feel higher in regards to the route of our nation."

"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 kids. They blocked parents trying to arrange to charge in to cease the shooter, including a father who realized 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 essential than our youngsters's freedom to go to school with no need bulletproof backpacks and active shooter drills," Kapler wrote.

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

"I'm not okay with the state of this country. I wish I hadn't let my discomfort compromise my integrity. I wish that I could have demonstrated what I discovered from my dad, that while you're dissatisfied with your country, you let or not it's known by way of protest. The home of the brave ought to encourage this."

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

"In the last 10 days, we've had aged Black individuals killed in a grocery store in Buffalo, we have had Asian churchgoers killed in Southern California, now we have now children murdered at school," Kerr told reporters in the beginning of the press conference.

"When are we going to do one thing? I am tired. I'm so uninterested in getting up here and offering condolences to the devastated households that are out there ... I am tired of the moments of silence. Enough."