The Head Of CrossFit Told Staff On A Zoom Call, “We Are Not In Mourning For George Floyd”
Glassman also trashed epidemiology as “a social science,” said upstate New Yorkers should secede from the rest of their state due to the strict lockdown measures in New York City, and urged gym owners to only pretend to comply with health precautions when they reopen.
Mike Young — the owner of a fitness facility in Morrisville, North Carolina, that contains a CrossFit affiliate — was one of the people on the call. He’d had the franchise for more than a decade and had been excited to speak with the CrossFit CEO and owner. “I get to meet this guy who’s probably been the biggest influence in this field,” Young told BuzzFeed News, “and then it turned into a shitshow really where the guy is just — conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory.
“It was beyond awkward,” he said. “The way I would describe it, I was privy to information from a private conversation that the world should know about. This guy has a couple thousand of these CrossFit affiliates and he’s the figure heard and he’s speaking like a lunatic at a time when things like COVID-19 and George Floyd, Black Lives Matter, are basically already causing unrest and the things he’s saying are unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, inflammatory nonsense really.
Near the end of the call, when a gym owner suggested they were considering dropping their affiliation with CrossFit, another CrossFit headquarters staff member spoke to defend Glassman. “You’re not even approaching this with any compassion. You’re approaching this strictly with your agenda,” the staff member told the gym owner.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Tamika Mallory: 'Movement begins again' when the officers charged with killing George Floyd head to courtThere comes a time when it&39;s OK for protesters to go home, says activist Tamika Mallory. "We should be able to sit back and say, we&39;ve got a small victory here and now I need to protect myself from COVID-19," Mallory told Yahoo News. But Mallory says that when the court trials of the
Read more »
After George Floyd's death, your pastor should be protesting injustice right now'The historic silence of many predominantly white churches in America has only deepened division, as our people are not confronted with the racism that exists in all of us,' writes NickHall for usatodayopinion.
Read more »
Calls for systemic change after George Floyd’s killing are met with pushback on the rightThe conservative pushback to the public outcry over George Floyd’s killing arguably began on Tucker Carlson’s primetime Fox News show.
Read more »
Inside McDonald's response to George Floyd protests - Business InsiderBusiness Insider is a fast-growing business site with deep financial, media, tech, and other industry verticals. Launched in 2007, the site is now the largest business news site on the web.
Read more »
In Minneapolis, rage over George Floyd extends beyond copsMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — To truly understand the rage people in this city felt as they watched a video of George Floyd begging, gasping and slowly succumbing beneath the weight of a police officer’s...
Read more »