In closing tonight’s broadcast, correspondent Jon Wertheim reflects on major league athletes who are joining protests and speaking out against police violence.
A friend said wistfully last week that he sure wished sports were in season. He didn’t mean as entertainment during a weighty time. He wished that sports were here to amplify the public mood about George Floyd’s killing and the outcry over police brutality. He wished that pro athletes were on fields and courts, locking arms and scrawling messages of resistance on shoes and, yes, kneeling in protest.
