Categories: Football

Several US players publish video against police brutality

More of two dozen American athletes, The majority of them football players, appear in a new video on protest for police brutality that was published this Wednesday in the account of Twitter the midfielder of the United States soccer team and the German club, Schalke 04, Weston McKennie.

The message given by athletes is brief, but forceful: “Enough is enough“. The video is accompanied with the sportsmen's face when they mention that phrase, and with images of some violent eventss that the police authorities have incurred.

Since Tuesday of last week, United States has registered demonstrations of protest, after what George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American man, died while in custody of the Minnesota Police. In the video of the incident you see Floyd lying on the floor face down and at white police Derek Chauvin, with the knee over the detainee's neck for more than eight minutes. Floyd was later pronounced dead after suffering cardiac arrest.

“This has been shappening for too long“says McKennie, who wore a bracelet that says” Justice for George “during a Bundesliga match last weekend, when the video starts. “For the police they continue abusing its power, the world is watching now. Enough is enough, “adds the Texas-born midfielder.

The phrase is then repeated before the camera by the athletes. Images of police officers beating, shooting at citizens, including Chauvin's, are intermingled at all times. McKennie joins the video with other players of the American team, Christian Pulisic, Tyler Adams, Jozy Altidore, Jonathan Lewis, Giovanni Reyna, Josh Sargent, Zack Steffen and DeAndre Yedlin.

In addition there are the legends recently removed from the selection, DaMarcus Beasley and Clint Dempsey, as well as Mal Pugh, winner of the 2019 Women's World Cup. Several non-US soccer players also appeared and appeared two NBA players, as are the power forward Larry Nance Jr., of the Cavaliers and the Brazilian center Cristiano Felicio, of the Bulls.

Gabby Barker

Gabby is someone who is interested in all types of sports, she loves to attend watching matches live. Whenever there is a match being played in her city, she makes sure to get the tickets in advance. Due to the love for sports, she joined Sportsfinding, and started writing general sports news. Apart from writing the news, she is also the editor for the website who checks and edits every news content before they go live.

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