Gabe Kapler: ‘I do not plan on popping out for the anthem going forward till I really feel higher concerning the path of our country’

Speaking within the dugout of the Nice American Ballpark in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kapler said, "I don't plan on coming out for the anthem going ahead till I really feel better about the path of our country."

"We weren't given bravery, and we aren't free. The police on the scene put a mom in handcuffs as she begged them to go in and save her kids. They blocked parents making an attempt to organize to cost in to cease the shooter, including a father who learned 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 youngsters's freedom to go to high school while not having bulletproof backpacks and energetic shooter drills," Kapler wrote.

Later, Kapler wrote about his disillusionment with what he called "the dearth of supply of the promise of what our nationwide anthem represents."

"I am not okay with the state of this nation. I wish I hadn't let my discomfort compromise my integrity. I want that I could have demonstrated what I realized from my dad, that when you're dissatisfied together with your country, you let it's known via protest. The house of the brave should encourage this."

Kerr refused to discuss basketball forward of Game 4 of the Warriors' sequence against the Dallas Mavericks, as an alternative elevating his voice as he railed towards gun violence within the wake of Tuesday's taking pictures.

"In the last 10 days, we have had aged Black people killed in a grocery store in Buffalo, we have had Asian churchgoers killed in Southern California, now we have kids murdered at college," Kerr informed reporters at the start of the press conference.

"When are we going to do something? I'm drained. I am so tired of getting up right here and providing condolences to the devastated households which are out there ... I'm tired of the moments of silence. Enough."