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It’s been an upsetting moment the past few days in the country, as white Minneapolis police officers appeared on video to murder African American George Floyd over a non-violent crime.
Protests have taken to the streets to decry the brutality and apparent racism involved as much of America has galvanized behind the issue, while more have spoken out on whatever platforms they have — whether it be social media or the media at-large.
That includes Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh, who shared his disdain for the event on The Rich Eisen Show on Thursday.
“Today, I’ll tell you what: I’m really very, very upset about the George Floyd death,” Harbaugh said. “It’s kinda got me preoccupied today. And (it’s) horrendous.
“I’m just watching right now and I’m looking forward to there being an investigation. Waiting for that – charges. That’s completely outrageous.”
From there, Eisen asked Harbaugh about Colin Kaepernick, his former quarterback with the San Francisco 49ers, who became something of a controversial figure after he started kneeling during the national anthem in protest of police brutality against the black community.
In the aftermath of Floyd’s apparent murder, non-comical memes started circulating, tying Kaepernick’s resolve to this exact situation.
Harbaugh notes that he’s spoken relatively recently with Kaepernick and continued to stand in his corner, elucidating that this was the reason the former NFL quarterback felt he needed to do something to draw attention to this issue.
“(I spoke to him) a few weeks ago,” Harbaugh said. “We texted. Every now and then we text. I think – there was a graphic, I saw that, too. It’s why he knelt. Was it LeBron James who tweeted that? If you didn’t know then, you know now. That spoke volumes, I thought.”