NYPD lieutenant apologizes for taking knee with protesters

Protests cure Covid?

An NYPD Lieutenant Robert Cattani was not wearing his Colin Kaepernick "Pig Socks" when he took a knee in late April alongside George Floyd protesters, but his virtue-signaling helped maintain the false narrative that police are racists and brutal in spite of the facts. How Cattani is a cop, much less a lieutenant, is astonishing.

Rather than facing his fellow officers face-to-face, he sent them an email telling them "the cop in me wants to kick my own ass."

The New York Post obtained a June 3 email by Cattani of the Midtown South Precinct. In the cowardly email he said that he regrets his "horrible decision to give into a crowd of protesters' demands" by kneeling at Foley Square in Lower Manhattan along with a few other cowardly officers, but perhaps they were scared or actually believe the crap being spread by Antifa and their ilk.

“The conditions prior to the decision to take a knee were very difficult as we were put center stage with the entire crowd chanting,” Cattani posted. “I know I made the wrong decision. We didn’t know how the protesters would have reacted if we didn’t and were attempting to reduce any extra violence.” They may have hit him or called him names.

Video from the demonstration shows thousands of protesters chanting and rhyming, “NYPD, take a knee” at the men in blue who obediently did what they were told.

After some prodding from the crowd, at least four cops knelt and were met with raucous cheers. Fortunately for the cops, nobody in the crowd peed on them or shot Silly String at them.

Cattani made the excuse: “I thought maybe that one protester/rioters who saw it would later think twice about fighting or hurting a cop,” he wrote. “I was wrong. At least that [sic] what I told myself when we made that bad decision. I know that it was wrong and something I will be shamed and humiliated about for the rest of my life.”

Good for him. Humiliation over failure to perform one's sworn duty is cleansing and good.

“We all know that a–hole in Minneapolis was wrong,” Cattani added, referring to fired cop Derek Chauvin who has been charged with murdering Floyd. Cattani also knows that Chauvin is the exception, not the norm, of that kind of behavior and taking a knee puts that fact into question by the a-holes he knelt with.

“I could not imagine the idea of ever coming back to work and putting on the uniform I so wrongly shamed,” he wrote. “However, I decided that was the easy way out for me and I will continue to come to work every day being there for my personnel.” 

Because he can use the money and hey, retirement is not that far in the future.

Should Cattani be fired?

No. Hopefully those of us on the right don't see every screwup as a reason to add another person to the cancel culture. Let the other a-holes [on the left] run with that idea. Maybe Cattani has even learned from his mistake and I would give him the benefit of any doubt one may have.

Aside from the military in combat, I cannot imagine a tougher job than a police officer. And hearing about an officer exhibiting Stockholm Syndrome can get me angry.


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Another moron disrespects national anthem at Pan Am Games

I don't know about you, but I am sick and tired of these irrelevant morons taking a knee during our national anthem as if they are actually doing something to make the changes they are calling for. It's bull crap and it isn't good for the country.

A moron from the U.S. men's fencing team took a knee at the Pan American Games, saying, “We must call for change.”

We must call for change in what? Tell me knee taking twerp, can you name another country were you can get away with your crap? Where you can disrespect your country and protest something you don't even understand nor ever suffered from?

Race [pronounced "Sphincter"] Imboden [pronounced "Breath"] and two teammates were winners of gold in a team foil competition at the games in Lima, Peru, Friday and the weasel took a knee on the podium at the medal ceremony because he's an ungrateful pile of dog turd.

He won stuff but at this point, I don't care what he won. He certainly didn't win it for the United States because he doesn't represent the U.S. and what it stands for.

“We must call for change,” Imboden said cryptically on Twitter, not explaining what change he was referring to. Is it the change in our free speech? Our right to protest? Women's rights? Equal opportunity regardless of race, religion or national origin?

“My pride however has been cut short by the multiple shortcomings of the country I hold so dear to my heart,” he said, lying through his teeth. “Racism, Gun Control, mistreatment of [illegal alien] immigrants.”

Did he protest Obama's so-called mistreatment of immigrants? Does he understand the concept of inalienable rights?

I've had it with these scumquats. Really. They are clueless in what they protest for, and they are only doing it because Donald Trump is President and Hillary Clinton is not.

The political protest could lead to disciplinary action by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee.

“Every athlete competing at the 2019 Pan American Games commits to terms of eligibility, including to refrain from demonstrations that are political in nature. In this case, Race didn’t adhere to the commitment he made to the organizing committee and the USOPC,” Mark Jones, Vice President of Communications, USOPC said in a statement on Saturday.

“We respect his rights to express his viewpoints, but we are disappointed that he chose not to honor his commitment. Our leadership are reviewing what consequences may result.”

Probably nothing.

This guy needs to actually live in another country--perhaps the country where he protested, Peru. I'm sure it's a fine country, but it isn't the United States of America. Perhaps he should go live with Colin Kaepernick for a couple of years where he can soak up the wisdom of an ungrateful cretin.

I hate this guy and I don't even know him.


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Tiger Woods is taking a knee

Golf legend Tiger Woods is getting into the act and taking a knee at tournaments as a protest against police who shoot armed blacks before they get shot themselves.

"I felt I needed to get involved," Woods said. "There are kids out there in Chicago getting shot by cops who refuse to allow them to shoot first and verify the guns they are aiming at them are genuine firearms. It also helps me personally to feel like a disenfranchised black man, especially after my Democratic friends called me out for not attacking President Trump."

When asked if he's been getting negative feedback from his fans he said, "Sure, but they'll get over it. Besides, they don't sign my paycheck."

There's a rumor that Woods is planning to put feelers out for the 2020 presidential race.


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America's game will not show America's anthem on ESPN

Bristol, CT -- It used to be America's game. Now ESPN will not air the national anthem at the start of "Monday Night Football." But that's okay, we can watch the male cheerleaders doing high-kicks and cheering on the men playing the game. The big question is whether or not the male cheerleaders will show a little bare belly while they dance.

The president of ESPN, Jimmy Pitaro has decided to keep the Stars and Stripes off the air, just in case it offends someone on the left. They didn't show it last year so why fix it if it ain't broken?

Pitaro spoke about his decision at ESPN's annual football media day. A reporter asked him if he spoke to the NFL about the rule changes and the national anthem and if he'd consider "turning the cameras on an athlete that's kneeling for the anthem."

"We generally have not broadcasted the anthem and I don't think there's going to be any change this year," Pitaro said. "Our plan going into this year is not to broadcast the anthem."

It's an interesting contrast to see the gladiators on the gridiron and the cowards videotaping them.

"Again, there could be changes. It's somewhat unpredictable what's going to happen in the world but as of now our plan is to not broadcast the anthem. We have communicated that back to the NFL. They have not asked but we proactively, just as a courtesy and as good partners, let them know what our plans are," he said.

So they plan to remain timid like they did during last season's "Monday Night Football" broadcasts.

The anthem was shown three times in all last year: after the Hurricane Harvey devastation, the Las Vegas massacre, and Trump's comments on the national anthem NFL protests.

Pitaro was asked what he believes is the most inaccurate perception of ESPN. He said that it was branding them as a "political organization," which he thoroughly denies. He said that they cover things that are "newsworthy," however.

"We are the place of record for sports when something happens, when the Eagles are disinvited to the White House, we are going to cover that. When someone takes a knee and we think it's newsworthy we're going to cover it. But we have to be the place of record," he said.

But in order to be the place of record, if the players "take a knee" during the national anthem and ESPN isn't playing it, how can they record it?

The one thing we can take to the bank, so to speak, is that the person who started with "taking a knee," Colin Kaepernick, still is out of an NFL job because he still sucks.

As was the case last year, I can find happiness in life without football. It's a sacrifice because I love the game, but nothing compared to the sacrifices made by our military that allows Kaepernick and his sheep to take a knee during the Star Spangled Banner.

No thank you--I'd rather take a stand.


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Kaepernick turned down a chance to play for Broncos

Colin Kaepernick, is the guy who started the "take a knee for some reason or another during the national anthem movement'. He has cost the NFL millions in revenue due to people refusing to support such crap and many boycotted the games.

Kaepernick, who sucked as a QB for the San Francisco 49ers, accused the NFL of colluding against him when no other team wanted to bring him aboard because of his vacuous performances on the field of play, and he filed a grievance against the NFL.

As it turns out, John Elway, the general manager for the Denver Broncos, said on Thursday that his team had offered the suck-worthy Kaepernick a "chance" to be on the team, but he turned them down--perhaps because of his awareness of the level at which he sucked.

Therefore, it was more advantageous for the troubled, anti-anthem, suck-worthy quarterback [whose arm was as accurate as Stevie Wonder's trying to throw a football thirty yards downfield through a moving one foot ring] to do a publicity stunt by "taking a knee" during the Star Spangled Banner," than to try out for a quarterback slot and obviously screw it up.

All hair, no brains

Elway's comments came as he spoke to reporters following the end of team camp. He was asked if Kaepernick could be viewed as a "viable candidate" to fill a back-up QB roll. Elway too is a former NFL quarterback.

"Colin had his chance to be here. We offered him a contract. He didn't take it," Elway answered, referring to a trade offer made to the suck-worthy Kaepernick prior to the 2016 season while he still threw poorly for the 49ers. He turned down the offer because he wanted more money than he was worth due to the level at which he sucked.

During the season, the failed QB began his national anthem protests and began kneeling during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner. He said it was to protest police brutality, something his girlfriend told him to say, and to "make sure you speak clearly and show them you're angry."

Other misinformed players who obviously were unaware of the actual statistics regarding police brutality, and caring less about black-on-black gun violence, followed suit because it seemed like the cool thing to do.

It was after the 49ers cut him from the team due to his chronic sucking as a QB that he filed the grievance against the NFL, accusing owners of colluding against him and refusing to hire him so that their team can experience the joys of having a QB with myriad interceptions.

"So, you know," Elway began, "and as I said at my deposition, and I don't know if I'm legally able to say this but, he's had his chance to be here. He passed it."

He even screwed up his passing at his chance.


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Court rules on taking a knee--but there's a solution

Mo, Curly and Larry

A leftist California federal court has ruled high school football players cannot be ordered to stand for the national anthem before games.

No problem--I have a solution.

California high school football coaches need to come up with a new exercise requiring players to stand and "place the right hand over the heart pushing inward, the left hand pushed downward along the side of the pants at the seams, and internally stretch by standing tall" while the Star Spangled Banner is being played. They should demand their players do this exercise when he tells them to begin or be cut from the team.

The announcers at California high school football games should announce before the national anthem that players may stand, sit or take a knee to honor the flag and our nation.

The screwed up decision was made on Dec. 21, by U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California in honor of Iran's pledge titled "Death to America."

Political expression and protest in a non-violent way is fine. So is boycotting games or refusing to allow your own kid to play for a team that refuses to support the flag.

Values and ideals, like liberals, go both ways.


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NFL plans to use veterans and cancer charity funds to pay off Anthem kneelers

San Francisco 49er Eric "The Weed" Reid told Slate magazine, an online mag that leans further to the left than Karl Marx, that the NFL intends to use the money that was slated to be used for breast cancer charities and "Salute to Service" veterans fund to pay for a seven-year, $89 million "social justice" program designated to pay off protesting NFL kneelers.

The NFL announced the cash initiative last week, as a way of "settling" with the players who a coalition of players who kneel disrespectfully during the National Anthem. In other words, the NFL is paying them off to stand during the Star Spangled Banner using money slated for veterans and cancer charities.

Makes perfect sense.

When the announcement was first made, it wasn't clear where the money was coming from--now it is.

If you are not boycotting the NFL on television and at the games, you're saying that you're okay with players standing during the honoring of our flag and our national anthem.

Please consider boycotting the NFL. As Martha Steward says, "It's a good thing."


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Vin Scully 'will never watch another NFL game'

Former L.A. Dodger announcer and Hall of Famer Vin Scully attended the Pasadena Civic Center for "An Evening With Vin Scully." 

Scully, who turns 90 this month was asked about the NFL's National Anthem protests, whereby players refuse to stand during the anthem in protest for police brutality and "stuff" they cannot intelligently verbalize nor provide any facts for all of their grievances.

Scully said he "will never watch another NFL game" because of the protests.

"I have only one personal thought, really," Scully said. "And I am so disappointed. And I used to love, during the fall and winter, to watch the NFL on Sunday. And it's not that I'm some great patriot--I was in the Navy for a year, didn't go anywhere, didn't do anything. But I have overwhelming respect and admiration for anyone who puts on a uniform and goes to war. So the only thing I can do in my little way is not to preach. I will never watch another NFL game."


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Kaepernick's legal case targets powerful NFL owners

Colin Kaepernick has successfully screwed the NFL out of millions and millions of dollars in lost revenue after taking a knee during the National Anthem. The reason he refused to stand for the anthem was because he was protesting police brutality. Which specific police brutality? Crickets.

Now the duck-throwing quarterback is suing the NFL because he believes there is a conspiracy to keep him out of the game and the only job he is qualified for at this time is as a urinal cake installer.

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, Patriots' Robert Kraft and the Texans' Bob McNair will be deposed and asked to turn over all cellphone records and emails related to Kaepernick's accusations.

It isn't as if the owners needed to confer about the failed QB--he sucked and everyone who owns an NFL team is aware that he sucks. They don't need to warn each other not to hire a loser.

But maybe I'm jumping the gun and they did indeed, speak to one another. It was probably not to make a deal but more likely to discuss how they feel about a fart-ferret who refuses to stand for the National Anthem.

Other owners such as Seahawks coach Pete Carroll and 49ers owner Jed York are also being deposed, and Giants owner John Mara and Steve Tisch are on the discovery list, according to Yahoo Sports.

Kaepernick is charging that NFL teams in "calculated coordination" with President Trump, blackballed him from the league after he became the face of the anthem protests.

Kaepernick opted out of the 49ers contract on the offseason and now no team appears to want to sign him and sign up for the trouble he causes and loss of revenue. He believes he's more talented than a handful of new starters in the league.

Each of the owners in the report has unique ties to the controversy. 

Kraft is a friend of President Trump and even gave him a Super Bowl ring after last year's win.

Jones took a knee with his team before the National Anthem in Week 3 after Trump asked owners to cut any "son of a b***h" who takes a knee. But when the fans starting boycotting and the money faucet was blocked, he said if any of his players took a knee, they would not play in the game.

Money talks.

McNair alienated his players when he stupidly commented at a recent owners' meeting that the league cannot have the "inmates running the prison." The player were thinking about boycotting but instead took a knee before they got their butts handed to them by the Seahawks.


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Anthem Kneeler MLB's Bruce Maxwell arrested on gun charge

Bruce Maxwell, a catcher for the Oakland Athletics, is the only Major League Baseball player to disrespectfully kneel during the National Anthem this season. Now he's been arrested on a gun charge.

Maxwell, 26, allegedly pointed a handgun at a female food delivery person in Scottsdale, Arizona.

According to Scottsdale police, officers went to Maxwell's home Saturday night after receiving a call about a person with a gun. The mediocre hitter (.237 with 3 HRs and 22 RBIs in 76 games) was booked on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and disorderly conduct.

The anti-Anthem catcher was held in custody pending an initial appearance.

TMZ Sports was first to report on the story.

Last week, Maxwell told a story of how when he visited his hometown of Huntsville, Alabama he was refused service at a restaurant because of his un-American display of stupidity. A waiter told Fox News that he was "outright lying" about what happened. "I didn't even know who Bruce Maxwell was," waiter Matt Henry said.

Sorry Maxwell, but most people don't know who you are. You're not famous and you play baseball behind a mask.  I believe the waiter's story and I believe you're just trying to 'do a Kaepernick' for your 15 minutes of fame, because you're certainly not getting it from your baseball career.

Keep taking a knee and watch the same thing happen to MLB that's happening to the NFL.

But maybe you'll be taking that knee in prison. Hey, you already have the ink to fit in.




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Jerry Jones: Stand for Anthem or sit for game

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones knows his bottom line when he sees it--he is demanding his players show respect for the flag and our National Anthem by not taking a knee, or they will sit on the bench for the game.

Big deal--they're losing anyway.

However, to his credit, Jones' statement is the strongest thus far in the NFL controversy, at least from the side of the teams. A stronger statement has been made by the fans who refuse to tune in and watch these millionaire buttheads play a game.

If we continue to boycott these Kaepernickonian cretins, it will end, because the bottom line for the NFL is, well, the bottom line. They are now last in viewership with baseball, America's pastime, coming in first--the NFL owners have to be worried.

Jones' comments came after he was asked about Vice President Pence's leaving the Indianapolis game after some 'oppressed' millionaire San Francisco 49ers disrespected the flag and all it stands for by taking a knee.

I used to be a 49ers fan but not anymore--they're dead to me. 

The NFL's game operations manual has a policy for players to stand for the National Anthem,  but it isn't an actual rule, and the NFL says it will not punish players who disrespect the flag, our country and our military because, hey, they bring in the big bucks.

"I know this, we cannot . . . in the NFL, in any way give the implication that we tolerate disrespecting the flag," Jones said after the Cowboys' loss to the Packers 35 to 31. "We know that there is a serious debate in this country about those issues, but there is no question in my mind that the National Football League and the Dallas Cowboys are going to stand up for the flag. So we're clear."

Would Jones have said those words if viewership increased or stayed the same? Remember, Jones and his entire team knelt arm-in-arm before the National Anthem before a game against the Arizona Cardinals two weeks ago, just a few days after President Trump spoke out against the kneeling.

Jones claimed that showing respect for the flag [aka the United States of America, our veterans, and the military] is more important to him than any potential issue of team unity . . . except, perhaps than the bottom line.

"There is no room here if it comes between looking non-supportive of our players and of each other or creating the impression that you're disrespecting the flag, we will be non-supportive of each other. We will not disrespect the flag," Jones said.

Jones also said that he didn't see any of his players raise a fist at the end of the anthem before the Packers game. 

Maybe he should have looked.

"I don't know about that," he said. "But if there's anything that is disrespectful to the flag, then we will not play. Okay? Understand? If we are disrespecting the flag, then we won't play. Period."

I know another person who likes to say 'Period' when he really meant 'I'm only kidding.' He goes by the name Barack Hussein Obama.

Another owner singing the "Bottom Line Blues," Stephen Ross of the Miami Dolphins, said that since President Trump made standing for the National Anthem about "patriotism," he 'evolved' in the way he looks at kneeling disrespectfully during the anthem. 

Throws a duck while displaying his IQ

Yes, suddenly Ross has evolved. Now he wants all of his players to stand for the anthem, but three players--Kenny Stills, Julian Thomas and Michael Thomas (neither related to Danny Thomas) remained off to the sideline during the playing of the anthem Sunday.

Can someone please make a case for racial oppression in this country? I mean aside from being 'white-shamed.' 

Yes, racism will always exist, but 'old white men' haven't cornered the market on it. 

Black Lives Matter is no less racist than the KKK or the neo-nazis. And in spite of the fact that the latter two were holding meetings and were active during the Obama administration, we only heard about them publicly when Trump came into office.

Gee, I wonder why?

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