ITP #011: Blackballed - The Colin Kaepernick Story

Episode 11. When officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd's neck, eventually causing his death, it led to worldwide protests against racial inequality and police brutality - a cause that one NFL star, four years ago, knelt himself to raise awareness of. That man was Colin Kaepernick, a quarterback who took the San Francisco 49ers to the Super Bowl just a few years earlier. His activism led to fury, involvement from Donald Trump, intervention from the NFL, and ultimately the end of his football career: