WACO, Texas — Members of the Baylor football team held a team protest and will march around campus in protest of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man in Wisconsin, 6 News Sports Reporter Niki Lattarulo learned from a source. The march went from the Allison Indoor Practice Facility to Rosebalm Fountain.
Blake was shot in broad daylight on Sunday by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin and the incident was captured on cellphone video that quickly spread on social media, igniting new protests over racial injustice in several cities.
Blake was shot in the back as he leaned into his SUV with his three children in the vehicle by police during a confrontation Sunday night. Blake's father said he was left paralyzed from the waist down.
"Baylor Football student-athletes decided as a team to forgo practice Thursday, to unite around the on-going events in our country. In lieu of practice, the team instead had an open conversation about how to come together as one to unite against social injustice, to discuss practical ways to support hurting teammates and to take time to pray for God to use the team to create change. Following that meeting, the team marched from the Simpson Athletic Center to Fountain Mall to pray for our city and campus," a statement from Baylor Football said.
NBA and WNBA games have been postponed again Thursday night, a day after the Milwaukee Bucks sat out their first-round playoff Game 5 in protest of the shooting. Both leagues released statements saying they will reschedule Thursday's games. The NBA may resume games this weekend, but the WNBA did not say when they will play again.
Starting with the Bucks, who refused to take the court for their game Wednesday against the Orlando Magic, players from six teams made the extraordinary decisions to protest the shooting by police of Jacob Blake.
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