“Andrew Hawkins made headlines when he took the field with a shirt protesting the recent shooting of two unarmed Ohioans. The Browns made us proud when they refused a demand from Cleveland cops to apologize. And now that he’s explained it, we realize that Hawkins isn’t just some athlete who threw on a t-shirt because it’s the trendy thing to do. He knows what he’s talking about, and he has very good reasons to care.

Hawkins’s shirt read “Justice for Tamir Rice and John Crawford” on the front, and “The Real Battle for Ohio” on the back, but didn’t address it on Sunday. But yesterday, Hawkins spoke for six minutes, uninterrupted and without notes, to the assembled media.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here:
http://deadspin.com/andrew-hawkins-has-some-remarkable-thoughts-on-protest-1671652808

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