Gabe Kapler: ‘I do not plan on coming out for the anthem going forward till I feel higher concerning the course of our nation’

Talking in the dugout of the Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kapler said, "I do not plan on coming out for the anthem going forward until I really feel higher in regards to the direction of our nation."

"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 children. They blocked dad and mom attempting to organize to charge in to cease the shooter, including a father who discovered his daughter was murdered whereas he argued with the cops. We aren't free when politicians decide that the lobbyist and gun industries are extra necessary than our kids's freedom to go to highschool without having bulletproof backpacks and active shooter drills," Kapler wrote.

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

"I am not okay with the state of this country. I wish I hadn't let my discomfort compromise my integrity. I wish that I could have demonstrated what I realized from my dad, that when you're dissatisfied with your country, you let it be known by way of protest. The home of the courageous ought to encourage this."

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

"In the final 10 days, we've had elderly Black folks killed in a supermarket in Buffalo, we've had Asian churchgoers killed in Southern California, now we have now youngsters murdered at college," Kerr informed reporters firstly of the press conference.

"When are we going to do one thing? I am drained. I am so uninterested in getting up right here and offering condolences to the devastated families which can be out there ... I am uninterested in the moments of silence. Enough."