'We're not mourning for George Floyd. I don't think we or any of my staff are,' the former CrossFit CEO said during a call hours before his controversial tweets Saturday referencing Floyd's death and Covid-19. 'Can you tell me why I should mourn for him?'
On the call, a gym owner from Minneapolis, Minnesota, where Floyd was killed and protests over his death began, explained that her community and members of her gym were mourning the death of Floyd. She asked why the company had not made any statement on Floyd's death, according to a recording of the call obtained by CNN Business. There were around 10 CrossFit affiliate owners and several company executives on the call, which lasted nearly two hours.
"ResignationLast week, gyms began dropping their CrossFit affiliations over what some gym owners saw as a failure by the company to adequately speak out in support of the black community.Then Saturday night, after the call, Glassman posted several tweets in which he criticized the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation's statement that racism is a public health issue."Floyd-19," Glassman tweeted in response to the Institute's tweet.
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