St. Louis Rams wide receivers can now hold their heads up high, knowing that they have just given the Ferguson riots, and all of the crimes that were committed by the riotes, their seal of approval after they came out before Sunday’s football game raising their hands, mimicking the “hands up” Ferguson protester gesture.
This “hands up” gesture is the new 1960’s black power fit in the air.
The incident happened during the pregame introductions before the Rams faced off with the Oakland Raiders in St. Louis, Missouri. Ferguson, as you know, is a suburb of St. Louis.
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Police were not to happy about the gesture, saying that they were “profoundly disappointed,” saying that the move was a “display that police officers around the nation found tasteless, offensive and inflammatory,” adding that the players need to apologize for their actions.
Here is how it went down:
Prior to kickoff of their game against the Oakland Raiders, Rams wide receivers Tavon Austin and Kenny Britt came out together and raised their hands, but the move was obscured by a smoke machine in the upper reaches of the Edward Jones Dome. Jared Cook, Stedman Bailey and Chris Givens then came out and stood together with hands raised in the fog.“I just think there has to be a change,” Cook said after the Rams’ 52-0 win. “There has to be a change that starts with the people that are most influential around the world.
“No matter what happened on that day, no matter how the whole situation went down, there has to be a change.”
And the change starts with this idiot and his other pro-thug teammates supporting the riots, looting, and physical harm done to innocent citizens?
This is funny. This Rams coward actually says it was too dangerous to go down to Ferguson, instead he and his friends show solidarity and support for the racial division by giving it a public stamp of approval.Cook said players have been too busy to go to Ferguson, plus “it’s kind of dangerous down there and none of us want to get caught up in anything.”
“It takes some guts, it takes some heart, so I admire the people around the world that have been doing it,” he added.
It would have taken guts to go down to Ferguson themselves, but Cook and the other cowards decided to express the sympathies for Michael Brown from the comfort of their million dollar homes.
SLPOA Business Manager Jeff Roorda was quoted in a statement released by the organization as saying ” All week long, the Rams and the NFL were on the phone with the St. Louis Police Department asking for assurances that the players and the fans would be kept safe from the violent protesters who had rioted, looted, and burned buildings in Ferguson … then, as the players and their fans sit safely in their dome under the watchful protection of hundreds of St. Louis’s finest, they take to the turf to call a now-exonerated officer a murderer, that is way out-of-bounds, to put it in football parlance.”
Roorda also played down the notion that the players were exercising their right to free speech, saying “I know that there are those that will say that these players are simply exercising their First Amendment rights. Well I’ve got news for people who think that way, cops have first amendment rights too, and we plan to exercise ours.
“I’d remind the NFL and their players that it is not the violent thugs burning down buildings that buy their advertiser’s products,” Roorda added. “It’s cops and the good people of St. Louis and other NFL towns that do. Somebody needs to throw a flag on this play. If it’s not the NFL and the Rams, then it’ll be cops and their supporters.”
Well said.
