Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has been criticised for wrongly saying 'taking a knee' seemed to be taken from Game of Thrones Where does the symbol of the Black Lives Matter movement come from?
In 2018, the NFL introduced a rule requiring players to stand during the anthem, but this has since been repealed.What's happened at Black Lives Matter protests?Starting at the end of May in Minnesota, protesters took the knee and called on the police to join them.Kaepernick offered support to the protesters and offered to help those arrested with legal fees.
At the Mexico Olympics in 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos gave the black power salute on the medal rostrum Basketball star Mahmoud Abdul Rauf refused to stand for the US national anthem in 1996 and described the US flag as a symbol of oppression In 2014 in the NFL, five St Louis Rams Players did a"hands up don't shoot" pose after Michael Brown was killed by a police officer in Missouri
LeBron James and other basketball players wore T-shirts with the words"I can't breathe" written on them in 2014, echoing the last words of Eric Garner, who died after being restrained by police officers in New York.
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