Ex-Seattle Seahawks stars Chancellor, Baldwin among athletes to support police accountability bill
Seattle Post-Intelligencer logoEx-Seattle Seahawks stars Chancellor, Baldwin among athletes to support police accountability bill
Seattle Seahawks and Mariners players are among a large group of athletes to support a bill demanding accountability for police brutality, in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in Minneapolis.
Seahawks legends Doug Baldwin and Kam Chancellor, current Seahawk Emmanuel Ellerbee, and the Mariners’ Dee Gordon, J.P. Crawford and Justin Dunn are a few of more than 1,100 athletes and coaches across three major sports leagues — the NFL, MLB and NBA — to sign a letter calling for the United States Congress to pass the Ending Qualified Immunity Act, which would eliminate qualified immunity for police officers and other government officials.
The letter was submitted Wednesday by the Players Coalition, an independent organization that works with sports figures to improve social justice and racial equality in America.
“We are tired of conversations around police accountability that go nowhere, and we have engaged in too many “listening sessions” where we discuss whether there is a problem of police violence in this country. There is a problem,” the letter said. “The world witnessed it when Officer Chauvin murdered George Floyd, and the world is watching now, as officers deploy enormous force on peaceful protestors like those who where standing outside of the White House last week. The time for debate about the unchecked authority of the police is over; it is now time for change.”
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