NFL played this one smart: they aren't touching it with a ten foot fucking pole. Major props to the players that did this too. Really great to see them take that stance where everyone can see it. And another major fuck you to the SLPD for making a public stink about wanting them punished for voicing an opinion.
I have admittedly been largely absent from mainstream media for the past… Oh, I don't know five years or so. I don't catch a lot of these types of things, so I'm glad this was posted. Why? Because this is a big deal. This is a police organization asking that public protest be squashed, be something that needs apology for. This is horseshit! Those guys can come out and make any sort of protest they see fit, so long as the NFL doesn't find fault with it but it's certainly not the place of the police to say what they can and cannot have a public opinion about. In fact, it's even more so not the place of the police when that opinion is about them. Do your job, do it well and none of this happens.
It continues to show their complete lack of understanding of the situation: yes, this is about a black boy being killed yet again, but it's about a black boy being killed because the police have no oversight and constantly far overstep their bounds and believe they're exempt from the American law system. So their response to someone angered by their lying, cover-up, and militarization is to demand an apology for exercising the most central American right.
I want this situation to, not to be forgotten, but to be forgotten by the media. And now I see on facebook that the police are claiming the team apologized and the team is saying they didn't. Fuck off back to fifth grade. When the fuck is someone (other than Brown's parents - credit where credit is due) going to be the bigger man in Missouri?