Four Minneapolis police officers walked off the job at the Target Center in Minneapolis in on Saturday in response to Minnesota Lynx players wearing Black Lives Matters shirts during warmups.
The WNBA players wore black shirts with the message “Change Starts with Us: Justice & Accountability” in white on the front. On the back, the shirt contained a Dallas police department emblem, the names of two African American men killed by police in Minnesota and Louisiana, and the words “Black Lives Matter.”
An up close look at the warm-up shirts #LosLynx are wearing to honor #AltonSterling #PhilandoCastile & #DallasPD pic.twitter.com/veqoGXP4VZ
— Minnesota Lynx (@minnesotalynx) July 9, 2016
Five Dallas law enforcement officers lost their lives at a Black Lives Matter protest last week when a radical opened fire on the cops along the march’s route.
Like the Lynx, the WNBA and NBA attempted to link cops killing men in Baton Rouge and St. Paul with an extremist intentionally murdering police in Dallas.
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