MLB Protests: Some San Francisco Giants Walk Off in Solidarity Against Police Violence

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San Francisco Giants players walk off the field after deciding to protest their game Wednesday following the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

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‘As the coppery afternoon sun sank lower, the hours grew nearer to the first pitch between the Giants and Dodgers on Wednesday night and the meetings continued between two clubhouses about whether to provide entertainment amid the searing ripples of another high-profile police shooting of an African American, Giants president Farhan Zaidi kept coming back to the same thought.’

https://theathletic.com/2026450/2020/08/27/theres-no-one-right-answer-giants-werent-unanimous-in-decision-to-walk-out/

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