Announcer live where you live, this is abc7 news. A major league stage for this east bay marching band. Tonight they took advantage of an as game appearance to call out what they see as social injish. Good evening. Im dan ashley. Ama daetz is on maternity leave. As rookie Bruce Maxwell took a knee. Tonight the oakland unified honor band did the same. Live at the ballpark with more on the message those students delivered tonight. Katie . Reporter dan, some fans were not happy about tonights protest, but students tell me this was their opportunity to be heard because theyre simply not old enough to vote. Playing the National Anthem in front of a major league crowd can be nerveracking, but tonight students say it was empowering. People get to see what were thinking because everybody has their own opinion. Reporter the oakland yeun fied School District honor band took a knee while playing the anthem at the Oakland Athletics game. Theyre at the age where they dont have a lot of power becaus
The Dallas Cowboys and their owner jerry jones linked together and took a knee just before the National Anthem. Im christine. And im bdan ashley. Players kneeled and linked arms and in some cases were not on the field while the answer anthem played. This was in response to President Trump calling the players who protest sobs during the rally in alabama. And reaction has been swift from nfl players including san matteos own tom brady. I certainly disagree with what he said and thought it was dwooif. No nfl player coach or owner has come out in agreement with the president who believes the protesters are disrespecting the flag and by extension, the country. The president s latest tweet on the matter reeds, tremendous backlash against the nfl and its players for disrespect of our country. Alisa hairing ton blinks the live coverage in alameda who looks at some people who are not allowed to vote made their opinion known. Reporter the student at the high school staged a protest this afternoo
Old enough to vote. Playing the National Anthem in front of a major league crowd can be rveracking, but tonight students say it was empowering. People get to see what were thinking because everybody has their own opinion. Reporter the oakland yeun fied School District hor band took a knee while playing the anthem at the Oakland Athletics game. There at the age where they dont have a lot of power because they cant vote and theyre just watching whats happening. But theyre also old enough to know whats going on. Reporte President Donald Trump said nfl players should stand for the National Anthem or be fired, referenced colin kaepernick. Students are upset about the pridents rhetoric, the violence i charlotte, and other issues some may consider too mature for children. We want fod s what hes saying is not okay. My kids come home and talk a lot about whats going on in the world and with our current administration, and even my 9yearold son, he has a lot to say. Reporter the band first took a
Reporter how do you feel about the Police Presence . We feel its pretty excessive. We have students on campus going hungry. We have students droppingout of school because they cant afford it. We need to do what we need to do. Reporter and what uc says it needs to do is prevent a replay of police overwhelmed by 150 violent demonstrators as they were when Milo Yiannopoulos tried to speak on the campus in february. We have officers from jurisdictions all up and down the state. How long are you staying at this level . Well reassess at the end of the day today. Reporter were talking about cops that came all the way from San Francisco, like i said, cal state universi, university of california. We saw cops here from berkeley. We saw them from the Alameda County sheriffs department, the Oakland Police department. Theyre coming in and they may have to come back again and again and again in. Berkeley kpix5, phil matier, back to you. In the last 30 minutes another show of solidarity among nfl pla
When i have an asthma attack. I feel like a fish with no water. Learn how to prevent your childs next asthma attack. Because even one attack is one too many. Announcer live where you live, this is abc7 news. A major league stage for this east bay marching band. Tonight they took advantage of an as game appearance to call out what they see as social injish. Good evening. Im dan ashley. Ama daetz is on maternity leave. As rookie Bruce Maxwell took a knee. Tonight the oakland unified honor band did the same. Live at the ballpark with more on the message those students delivered tonight. Katie . Reporter dan, some fans were not happy about tonights protest, but students tell me this was their opportunity to be heard because theyre simply not old enough to vote. Playing the National Anthem in front of a major league crowd can be nerveracking, but tonight students say it was empowering. People get to see what were thinking because everybody has their own opinion. Reporter the oakland yeun fi