A Baltimore pastor organized a protest of several hundred people outside the Ravens game in support of Colin Kaepernick on Sunday, according to a report.
Pastor Jamalh Bryant, founder of Baltimore’s Empowerment Temple AME Church, organized the protest. Bryant started the protest as a social media campaign seeking 500 black men to come to the Ravens’ M&T Stadium to show support for Kaepernick and his NFL protests, according to the Baltimore Sun.
“Colin Kaepernick didn’t take a knee for the NFL, but about police brutality,” Bryant told the media after the roughly 10-minute protest. “You have to do it for Trayvon [Martin], Freddie Gray, Eric Gardner. That’s what the dialogue is about.”
Protesters raise fists, kneel silently before Ravens game at M&T Bank Stadium during national anthem https://t.co/U8KaKBp3WC
— jamalbryant (@jamalhbryant) October 15, 2017
Black men taking a knee…… https://t.co/JTquuemm7H
— jamalbryant (@jamalhbryant) October 15, 2017
Meanwhile, as Bryant’s protest went on outside under the protection of Maryland state police officers, inside M&T Stadium both the Ravens and their opponents, the Chicago Bears, stood for the anthem.
Pastor Bryant has a controversial past with a contentious 2008 divorce from his wife who charged him with repeated infidelities. Bryant was also slapped accusations last year from a woman who claimed he had fathered her love child.
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