The Reaction To Kenosha, From Pro Sports To Washington, D.C.
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🗓️ 27 August 2020
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Summary
Basketball, baseball, tennis and soccer players announced in the last 24 hours that they would not play scheduled games. These decisions come after Jacob Blake, a Black father was shot by police in Kenosha on Sunday.
NPR spoke to the lawyer representing Blake's family, who said earlier this week that Blake is paralyzed from the waist down.
Ahead of the 57th anniversary of the March on Washington, NPR's Cheryl Corley reports on an upcoming march for racial justice.
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| 0:00.0 | Things were quieter in Kenosha, Wisconsin Wednesday night. |
| 0:03.8 | According to reports, police and so-called militia members mostly stayed away from protesters. |
| 0:11.0 | There were some reports of law enforcement putting people in unmarked vehicles. |
| 0:15.7 | The way we've seen them do in Portland and other cities. |
| 0:18.6 | As the police has... |
| 0:22.6 | This video from a group called Riot Kitchen that gave food to protesters was posted on Wednesday. |
| 0:28.5 | That's 12. They got cars, didn't know plates on them. |
| 0:32.5 | All the police were on the Jeep car, they had no plates. |
| 0:35.5 | And then the reaction to what happened in Kenosha spread way beyond the streets of Kenosha. |
| 0:42.5 | With pro basketball, baseball and tennis players all saying in the last 24 hours, they weren't going to play. |
| 0:49.5 | Our team stayed in the past four months, have shared a light on the ongoing racial injustice |
| 0:55.5 | facing our African-American community. |
| 0:57.5 | Here's Sterling Brown and George Hill from the Milwaukee Bucks last night. |
| 1:01.5 | Despite the overwhelming plea for change, there has been no action. |
| 1:05.5 | So our focus today cannot be on basketball. |
| 1:08.5 | When we take the court and represent Milwaukee in Wisconsin, we are expected to play at a high level, |
| 1:13.5 | give maximum effort and hold each other accountable. |
| 1:16.5 | We hold ourselves to that standard, and in this moment we are demanding the same from lawmakers and law enforcement. |
| 1:23.5 | We are calling for justice for Jacob Blake. |
| 1:26.5 | We're calling up the reaction to another black man shot by police from pro sports to Washington, D.C., |
| 1:33.5 | where a major protest is planned for Friday. |
| 1:36.5 | This is Consider This from NPR. I'm Kelly McEvers. |
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