Gabe Kapler: ‘I do not plan on popping out for the anthem going ahead until I feel higher in regards to the course of our country’

Talking within the dugout of the Nice American Ballpark in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kapler stated, "I don't plan on coming out for the anthem going ahead until I 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 mother in handcuffs as she begged them to go in and save her kids. They blocked dad and mom trying to organize to cost in to stop the shooter, including a father who realized his daughter was murdered while he argued with the cops. We aren't free when politicians decide that the lobbyist and gun industries are more vital than our kids's freedom to go to school without having bulletproof backpacks and energetic shooter drills," Kapler wrote.

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

"I am not okay with the state of this country. I want I hadn't let my discomfort compromise my integrity. I want that I might have demonstrated what I discovered from my dad, that if you're dissatisfied with your nation, you let it's identified through protest. The home of the brave ought to encourage this."

Kerr refused to talk about basketball ahead of Recreation 4 of the Warriors' sequence in opposition to the Dallas Mavericks, instead raising his voice as he railed against gun violence in the wake of Tuesday's taking pictures.

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

"When are we going to do one thing? I'm tired. I'm so tired of getting up right here and providing condolences to the devastated families which might be on the market ... I am bored with the moments of silence. Sufficient."