An entire German soccer team took a knee before a game, echoing the NFL anthem protests

A Berlin-based soccer team knelt before a game on Saturday.

Both players and officials of Hertha Berlin got down on one knee prior to the game "For a tolerant Berlin and an open-minded world, now and forevermore!" according to a tweet by the team.

"We are living in the 21st century, not the 18th century, but there are some people who haven't developed their ideologies accordingly," one of the the teams players, Sebastian Langkamp, told Sky Sports in an interview, according to the BBC. "If we can give them a bit of help in doing so, then that's good."

The gesture, which NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick started in 2016 when he knelt during the playing of the national anthem prior to a game, was originally a protest over how the US, and particularly the police, treats black people and people of color.

The protest's spread to Europe is just another symptom of the spotlight placed on the gesture after President Donald Trump made it a signature issue, telling a crowd in Arizona in September that any player that kneels in the NFL should be fired.

Since then, kneeling and other gestures of protest or solidarity have spread across the league.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell called on teams and owners this week to curb the practice. The NFL said Friday it will not be seeking a change in rules to force players to stand, however.



Hertha BSC stands for tolerance and responsibility! For a tolerant Berlin and an open-minded world, now and forevermore! #TakeAKnee #hahohe pic.twitter.com/spZvRSGVxQ

— Hertha Berlin (@HerthaBSC_EN) October 14, 2017

 

Okay then. I'll never watch a German soccer match.

As if.....

 

You don't know what you're missing.

 

Why yes, taking a knee or sitting on one's ass is a great way to fix the problem..........

 

Ignoring the problem and acting like it doesn't exist, like you do, is an even better way.

 

Those taking a knee dont know that ''the problem'' doesn't exist.

 

Ummmmm....... in what world is there not a problem in the US right now, over how people of colour are treated by the police?

 

How many blacks have been charged with a crime, yet not convicted in a court of law?

The police dont have the problem with blacks here.....it's the blacks that have a problem with the laws and the enforcement of the laws.

Keep your emotionally charged rhetoric over there where it belongs.

 

You clearly need to do more to educate them. You're so good at that.

 

I would rather shake my head at them and their utter ignorance of reality.

 

1. African-American/Black drivers are twice as likely (4.5% vs. 2.1%) to be arrested during a traffic stop. (The Leadership Conference)

2. 65% of Hispanic drivers are likely to receive a ticket during a traffic stop. This is higher than Caucasian/White drivers (56%) or African-American/Black drivers (55.8%). (The Leadership Conference)

3. Whites/Caucasians are twice more likely to receive a verbal warning for their conduct in a vehicle when compared to Blacks/African-Americans. (The Leadership Conference)

4. Blacks/African-Americans are 3 times more likely to be searched during a police stop as a motorist compared to Whites/Caucasians. Hispanics are 2.5 times more likely to be searched during a police stop compared to Whites/Caucasians. (The Leadership Conference)

5. A study of State Police conduct in Arizona showed that the highway patrol was 3.5 times more likely to search a stopped Native American and 2.5 times more likely to search a stopped African-American/Black or Hispanic individual when compared to Whites/ Caucasians. (The Leadership Conference)

6. The probability of being black, unarmed, and shot by police is about 3.49 times the probability of being white, unarmed, and shot by police on average. (Vanity Fair)

7. When factoring in threat levels, black Americans who are fatally shot by police are less likely to be posing an imminent lethal threat to officers at the moment they are killed than white Americans fatally shot by police. (Washington Post/ Vanity Fair)

8. An analysis of lethal force used by police in 2015 found no correlation between the level of violent crime in some area and that area’s police killing rates. (Vanity Fair)

9. In San Francisco, although black people accounted for less than 15% of all traffic stops in 2015, they accounted for over 42% of all non-consent searches which occurred following the stop. Blacks/African-Americans and Hispanics also had the lowest rates of contraband recovered. (Vanity Fair)

10. African-Americans/Blacks are twice as likely as Whites/Caucasians to be searched during a vehicle stop as a driver, even after controlling for non-race variables such as the reason why the stop was initiated. They are also found to be in possession of contraband 26% less often than Whites/Caucasians. (Vanity Fair)

11. In Chicago, the city’s own data shows that Blacks/African-Americans and Hispanics were searched 4 times more often than Whites/Caucasians, but contraband was found in the possession of white drivers twice as often. (Vanity Fair)

12. In 4 states in the US, police officers are more likely to stop Black drivers for no discernible reason. They are also more likely to use force if the driver is Black, even when physical resistance is not encountered. (New York Times)

13. The NYPD conducted 4.4 million stop and frisk searches between January 2004 and June 2012 before the practice was determined to be a violation of Constitutional rights. 88% of those stop and frisk searches resulted in no further action. 83% of those who were stopped were either Black or Hispanic, even though the two groups combined make up less than half of the population in the city. (Vanity Fair)

14. Ferguson, Missouri police were found to be violating Constitutional rights by the Department of Justice, but 1,581 police departments in the United States arrest Blacks/African-Americans at rates that are even more skewed. (USA Today)

15. At least 70 police departments in the United States arrest Blacks/African-Americans at 10 times the rate they arrest people who are not black. (USA Today)

16. In Dearborn, MI about 4% of the population is not white, but people who are not white make up more than half of all the arrests which occur. From 2011-2012, Dearborn police reported arresting 4,500 individuals who were African-American/Black, which was 500 more people in that racial category than actually lived in the city. (USA Today)

17. A study in Cincinnati found that black drivers had longer stops and higher search rates than white drivers. When researchers matched stops involving black drivers with similarly situated white drivers, those who were stopped at the same time, place, and context had no differences. (NIJ)

18. A Department of Justice investigation into the Seattle Police Department found that more than half of the cases that involved unnecessary or excessive use of force involved minorities. The investigation also found that, regardless of race or ethnicity, police were using force unconstitutionally in about 1 in every 5 incidents. (Vanity Fair)

19. A governor’s task force that examined police-on-police shootings found that 90% of off-duty police officers that were killed by other police officers in a case of mistaken identity since 1982 were either Black or Latino. (New York Times)

20. In a study of police practices in Oakland, CA officers handcuffed 2,890 African-Americans/Blacks, but did not arrest them, in a 13-month period. In the same period of time, only 193 Caucasians/Whites were handcuffed without arrest. When Oakland police officers pulled over a vehicle, but didn’t arrest anyone, 72 white people were handcuffed, but so were 1,446 African-Americans/Blacks. (Washington Post)

21. In simulations, police officers take an extra 0.23 seconds on average before firing at a Black suspect compared to firing at a white suspect who is unarmed. (Washington State University)

22. In Los Angeles, the Black stop rate is 3,400 stops higher than the White stop rate, while the Hispanic stop rate was almost 360 stops higher per 10,000 residents. (The Leadership Council)

23. Relative to stopped Whites, stopped Blacks in LA were 127% more likely to be frisked and Hispanics were 43% more likely to be frisked. Blacks were also 76% more likely to be searched compared to Whites. (The Leadership Council)

24. Only 173 police departments out of 3,538 that were examined arrested Black people at a rate that was equal or lower than other racial groups. (USA Today)

- Statistics

 

I think you should do a lot more of that, it'll save us all the trouble of having to read your crap.

 

Fan-fucking-tastic...

Did your reply answer my question?

Furthermore...the federal fucking government is not set the guidline for how States enforce the laws of the state, just as the States are not permitted to enforce what the USC gives the federal fucking governemnt the authority to allow.

 

How many whites haven't been charged with a crime in the first place? How many whites have been charged and not convicted?

I'm not saying all police have an issue with POC, but some most certainly do, and they have been protected by their colleagues. And yes, there are POC - and whites - who have a problem with the police and the law too. However, none of that negates the fact that there is definitely a problem 'over there'. Anyone who looks without prejudice can see it. Perhaps your Trump baseball cap is too low to allow you to see out from under it?

 

Oh my god...

 

No. Your question was moronic and had nothing to do with the issue at hand. You know that, don't act like you don't.

 

...so... if I still promise not to cum in your hair....

And yes, it has every damned thing to do with it, you chose not to answer my question, because you have not yet been told how to answer the question.

Or maybe you have, by giving ''federal fucking government statistics'' from an AG that was a fucking racist, appointed by a another fucking racist...because we damn sure dont want the cops to be acting ''stupidly''.

You may like to suck on pussy like I do, but you have a long ways to go before your slick talk gets the best of me.

 

Oh how shall I live?

 

Just keep putingt one foot in front of the other when you wake up.

 

But then my life would still be devoid of you, my most beloved mentor. Surely, I will wither and die, be it not for your guidance and strength.