Gabe Kapler: ‘I don’t plan on popping out for the anthem going forward until I really feel better concerning the route of our country’

Talking in the dugout of the Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati, Ohio, Kapler stated, "I do not plan on coming out for the anthem going forward till I feel higher concerning the course 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 children. They blocked parents trying to prepare to cost in to cease the shooter, together with a father who discovered his daughter was murdered whereas he argued with the cops. We aren't free when politicians determine that the lobbyist and gun industries are more vital than our children's freedom to go to school with no need bulletproof backpacks and lively shooter drills," Kapler wrote.

Later, Kapler wrote about his disillusionment with what he referred to as "the dearth of delivery of the promise of what our national anthem represents."

"I'm not okay with the state of this country. I wish I hadn't let my discomfort compromise my integrity. I wish that I may have demonstrated what I realized from my dad, that while you're dissatisfied along with your nation, you let it be identified by protest. The home of the courageous should encourage this."

Kerr refused to discuss basketball forward of Recreation 4 of the Warriors' series against the Dallas Mavericks, as a substitute raising his voice as he railed against gun violence in the wake of Tuesday's shooting.

"Within the final 10 days, we have had aged Black folks killed in a supermarket in Buffalo, we've had Asian churchgoers killed in Southern California, now we have youngsters murdered in school," Kerr advised reporters at the beginning of the press conference.

"When are we going to do one thing? I am tired. I'm so uninterested in getting up right here and offering condolences to the devastated households which are out there ... I am bored with the moments of silence. Enough."