Kelly D. Holstine of Minnesota said she knelt during the football game to 'stand up for marginalized and oppressed people.'
, who famously began kneeling during the national anthem at NFL games in 2016 to protest all forms of social injustice.
The NFL has been widely accused of blackballing Kaepernick, a former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who has remained unsigned by a team since he became a free agent after the 2016 season.that she knew Trump would be at the game ahead of time, and that his administration helped fuel her decision to kneel.
“I think that the current environment that is being created and has been created in his tenure definitely adds to my feelings of wanting to support individuals who are not being supported,” she said. “I really feel like our country is not serving the needs of all its inhabitants … so many humans right now that are not being given the respect and the rights that they deserve.”
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