Source: Hollow NFL protests ignore inconvenient truth | Power Line

While poorly educated athletes, egged on by leftist commentators, indulge in Black Lives Matter based protests against their country, evidence pours in that black-on-black crime is the real threat to black lives and that attacks on policing are causing an increase in such crime. Heather Mac Donald has the details.

Mr. Mirengoff concludes…

NFL players have the right to ignore, or be ignorant of, the facts, and I don’t believe they should be punished for taking a knee or otherwise disrespecting America when the National Anthem is played. But it is fair to observe that, in addition to disrespecting the country that has been so good to them, they are boosting the Ferguson effect and thus likely adding to the toll on thousands of law-abiding people in the inner cities who need more police protection.

I’m not sure I totally agree with Mirengoff’s conclusion regarding punishment. It does appear they are violating NFL rules. That aside, I’m OK with the free market dishing out the punishment. I spent at most an hour watching NFL football over the weekend and Monday night. Probably less than 30 minutes. I watched a few plays in the Bronco’s game and then a little of the Monday night game.

I don’t plan to watch anymore this weekend.