Kenny Smith walks off set in solidarity with NBA players

"Inside the NBA" analyst Kenny Smith walks off the set of his show in solidarity with NBA players protesting the police shooting of Jacob Blake. CNN's Erin Burnett speaks with Bob Costas about how athletes are stepping up and making their voices heard. #CNN #News

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    1. Absolutely there is more to life than a game this is very serious issue… Enough is Enough.💔

    2. Yeah we should not even bring NBA back what do they do to get paid that much money?? Shoot a ball in a net go find 12hrs of real job then let’s talk

    1. Black people in general are SICK & TIRED of the police shooting and killing black men and basically getting away with it as if its NO BIG DEAL ..BLACK LIVES MATTER!!

  1. They don’t really protect every one else but I hear what he is saying and he makes a good point. YOUR AGREE?

    1. Msg to NBA from non American NBA fans: to be honest Im just pissed, Im a huge NBA fan who just sold my liver to pay my monthly cable subscription here in the Philippines to watch NBA games now this thing happens…
      ..

      Common sense will tell you that maybe its a good idea to respect and listen to a person with authority who is pointing a loaded gun on you. Career criminals even unarmed also has a tendency to get shot by police on other countries due to their proximity to crime .

      So its just pissed me off that because of a career criminal (GF) and a person who is stupid enough not to respect a person of authority with a loaded gun theres no NBA games…….Now if this is a protest about a murder of an innocent kid or a well respected retired police officer who died heroically trying to preserve peace and order its another matter.

      NBA players instead this of this empty protest why not donate all their salary to victims of racial injustice or police brutality victims to show their sincerity.

    2. @Olivia This isn’t about who was shot. This is all about obsessive force. An unarmed man should never be shot 7 times by a police officer.

    1. @John J. Johnston Odd, you aren’t the least bit funny. I’m certain that you need a new career. Do you know how to dribble? SEE! Now THAT is comedy!

    2. @Slytherin Reviews I’m sure they have even more remarkable cases to refer to, but the quicker and easier the better. If that is IRS, I’m all good with it! We can always go back later if we need to and try him for lord knows how many crimes, lol. But, we’d better win this election as a backup plan, right? Thanks for the info.

    3. @Ash Roskell At least mail-in is safe in AZ. This will be the 15th year we have used it. And 75% of the voters use mail-in.

    4. @Humble Man I have walked out of my job for moral reasons. I think your trying ignore this, not understand it. which is normal, esp for older white men. it’s a challenge to keep your critical thinking online in this world. it’s worth it though. protests are the heart of democracy.

    1. Charles is a house ninja…You know your field ninjas from the house ninjas when they stand up🤷‍♀️

    2. @Benisha Harrell I see what you did there…lol. I thought that when he sipped from his cup, he made the moment seem trivial. He softened the effect by doing it

    3. When Charles got pulled over in N.J. with a pistol he wasnt even hand cuffed. N.J. has a mandatory sentence for illegal gun possession and he didnt do one day. N.J. doesnt recognize out of state gun carry permits let alone the 2nd amendment. He raised his cup? Ugh.

  2. *Yo,Charles Barkley crazy drinking his Diet 🥃Coke 😂😂 when Kenny’s leaving.*

    1. Charles is invested in Charles; Donald is invested in Donald. “And so it goes.” ~ Linda Ellerbee

    1. @Salty and the Beef Cracker No matter what they didn’t HAVE to shoot the man SEVEN Times in the back .🙄

    2. @paul smegal It’s all he could come up with. Closest he’s been to ever being part of a sports crowd.

    3. @William Davis Says YOU???? Don’t make me laugh. Or vomit! But I do smell evil. It is coming from your direction though.

    4. @Spicy Hot Agreed. But just like in the Georgia case, multiple cops could not subdue a suspect. These guys shouldn’t be cops! If it weren’t for their gun fetish, do you think they would be out there facing crime? Pfftttt! They wouldn’t leave their fucking houses! If you saw how lame they were at even SLOWING DOWN a suspect, you would have your answer to why they thought it necessary to murder. Because they were too weak otherwise. Mentally and physically, and should not be in a uniform of any kind. Not even mailman. They should also be forced to refund every penny they made while working for the police force and then be charged with fraud! Right after the murder trial, that is.

    5. @Spicy Hot And how bout they learn to STOP a suspect without shooting him 7 times? No they just follow him around the car slowly, not even as fast as they go to lunch. That said they couldn’t even deploy the taser correctly. These aren’t cops, they are fucking lunch ladies! Except everyone remembers who their lunch lady was. Nobody will remember these embarrassments. Even when they do get out of prison for murder.

  3. How many people have to die before we find a solution? Who can play a game when our brothers are getting killed?

    1. I always told my white kids don’t ever grab for anything or resist or run because I always knew that some Police brutality excist and you never know what kind of nut your dealing with black or white cop or thug

    2. I don’t have a felony warrant for rape and wouldn’t resist arrest with my kids in the car. I guess CNN didn’t mention that part. I go to work everyday and have nice things. Don’t care how shitty your life is. Your fault not mine!!

  4. President Lyndon B. Johnson, “If you can convince the lowest white man, he’s better than the best colour man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you. Those are the devils who supports “TDUmp’s (WS, police department and the government)

    1. @Finn McCool lol the democrats created the kkk and we all know what they were known for. The Republican party was created by Abraham Lincoln and we all know what he was know for as well.

    1. My Teams Suck I was a big fan starting the mid 80’s when I was a kid. Then I was too busy to keep up and then since LeBron has been around, it’s become too political. I faded out with that.

    2. @Faub ah yea I’ve never cared for the sport in general both watching and playing. I did watch a couple of the pistons runs when they were actually good

    1. hardkore360 you act like racism don’t exist for white ppl. Especially now days, white ppl are being targeted

    2. @Darth Ellok … Why are you crying? For the first time in a long time, many racist and complicity ignorant white people are facing a tiny bit of what Black people and Brown people have experienced for centuries.

    3. M J tf? So you’re assuming all white ppl are the same? You’re racist. I’ve never treated a black person different in my life but it’s still my fault? Why the f*** they crying? You don’t see Jews doing this, who also had it wayyyy worse than the slaves in the US had.

    4. @Darth Ellok I don’t think you understand yes Jews had it bad but African Americans/blacks also had it bad. White ppl only barely get treated wrongly because of their skin color. They don’t know it feels to walk on a store and have somebody think that you’re a robber or thief. Whites don’t what it feels like to just be driving get pulled and the possibility of getting shot just because of their skin color. A 17-year old white boy had a gun killed somebody walked by the police who saw the gun in his hands and didn’t do anything while a black man had nothing in his hands and got shot for nothing

  5. “I’m not gonna do what everyone thinks I’m gonna do and… FLIP OUT man… all I wanna know is… who’s coming with me?”

  6. I am an African American Airline Pilot. When i came out of the U.S Airforce in January 1990. I looked around & realized we are the only race without our own Airline transportation back to where we come from, the Beautiful Contenant of Africa?
    I immediately filed an application, received secured financial backing & four years later with help & higher (Complaint with HQ.) intervention was approved to hold a U.S Air Carrier Certificate to operate a U.S Airline. The issuing agency was furious, because they never issued An Air Carrier Certificate to a Black ownd and operated company before in the U.S.A They immediately set out to destroy my life with false charges against me.(If we cannot stop you professionaly? We will distroy you personally) They charged me with three C.F.R 67.403 (A)(1) Administrative Actions, which means DUI/DWI. They accused me of committing fraud for not reporting their fraud against me? I have never drink a beer or had a traffic stop for the likes in my life? It has taken years to clear. Once they realize i will fight for my rights, everyone involved walked away & would not touch my case. Finally after 16 year’s as i am posting, i get my case in U.S. District Court in Washington DC. What i have come to realize in America is their are over 180k Airline Pilots. The industry is 98% White male? While Black people are 14% of the U.S population? We should be 26,000 of the 180,000? Instead we are only 800? In 1947 we had 942 Black Pilots? Called the Tuskegee Airman of which not even one them got a job with a US Airline? Just to give a little insight on what we are really dealing with? I want this truth be public because the closest entry points between Africa & America is Cape Verde Islands & The U.S Virgin Islands (2,700 miles apart) in the Atlantic? A short flight but Black people think we are worlds away when we are closer then we think. State of Texas in America is larger than every country in Europe? Every country in Europe has its own Airline? If we are repatriating back to Africa and we are not flying ourselves imagine the millions & billions we are losing.

    1. Thats called the the Rich white elite machine. Regular white folks working 9 to 5 jobs dont have nothing to do with that. Those are the white elites. I pray God blesses you with what you want and fully deserve to have in your life.

    2. why is it somone else fault that there are not more blacks flying planes have you ever thought that maybe they just don’t wanna do that as a career..An how can you knock america when you lived the american dream you got a loan and started an airline company

    3. @Lucas Oldaker It’s the problem of having to fight exponentially harder to achieve things that are a given for some; wake up.

  7. We are dying out here. Those NBA players know that what’s going on in this country is more important than playing a game. They also know they are in a prime position to levy change bc when they stop playing, ppl pay attention

  8. “Have you ever seen anything like this?” WTF O.o
    Well a deadly pandemic raging through America since months, combined with a compulsiv lieer as president, who cares more about optics than the life of his citiezens!
    I guess that is new to everyone on the planet 😀
    3:25 THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT PROGRESSIVES, LIKE AOC, SANDERS OR TLAIB SAY FOR YEARS! Of cause only if they are given enough time…

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