Police union president thinks the First Amendment doesn’t apply to National Football League players

For the second straight week, Miami Dolphins players chose to take a knee during the playing of the national anthem, kneeling here at Gillette Stadium ahead of the Week 2 matchup against the Patriots and supporting the wave of anthem protests begun by 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

At yesterday’s game against the Patriots, three Dolphins player kneeled, continuing their silent protest of the flag and national anthem.

“We’ve asked the deputies and the Broward Sheriff’s Office not to do the details anymore”, Bell said, via the Miami Herald.

A Florida sheriff’s office will no longer escort the Miami Dolphins to their football games until the team stands for the national anthem..

The Local I.U.P.A. 6020 of the Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputies Association is calling on all officers to stop escorting the Dolphins.

“I respect their right to have freedom of speech”.

Now, he did not burst out and have an insane game in his first regular season action with the Miami Dolphins last week, but running back Arian Foster did offer a few glimpses of hope for his fantasy owners this season. Their protest was inspired by San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who began kneeling during the “Star-Spangled Banner” to speak out against police brutality and racial injustice in America. He will be a game-time decision, but did say Friday he would play if the game was today, according to Palm Beach Post reporter Jason Lieser. “It’s never the time in someone else’s eye”.

Hey look, they’re doing their jobs even if their feelings may have been hurt by American citizens exercising their First Amendment rights! “I think everybody here, our team and our whole organization, respects the flag and what it stands for, the soldiers and everything”. Miami-Dade police said it has a “contractual obligations with Hard Rock Stadium to provide public safety”. In a statement, they said the security of visitors and residents is their main concern and they will continue to honor their contract.