Deputies refuse security detail after high school students take a knee during anthem [View all]
Weeks after San Francisco 49er Colin Kaepernick began to protest racial inequality by sitting or kneeling during the national anthem at NFL games, the practice has spread to prep sports. And that's got some adults mighty angry.
Some sheriff's deputies in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, have begun saying won't volunteer for patrol duty at Bonnabel High School football games after the team's players kneeled during the anthem in late September.
"The same way Bonnabel players have every right to kneel during the national anthem, my officers have every right not to volunteer to work the Bonnabel high school football game," Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand told the local Fox affiliate.
Normand told the station that just as deputies won't volunteer to patrol during concerts or other events where they don't particularly like the artist or message, they're free to abstain from high school games when student-athletes exercise their First Amendment rights.
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