retired defensive back ryan clark said, it s a game, you never suit up and think you are not going to make it home. unfortunately, we ve become accustomed to seeing a stretcher come out at times, an ambulance come out at times. former buffalo bills center wood retired after suffering a potentially catastrophic neck injury. player safety, he says, is a far higher priority now. i d almost say that we had a point of maximum violence, prior to really cracking down on these head injuries, and now i feel like the game is being played at a much safer level. the nfl says it has been in constant contact with both teams, and the players association, since last night s game. the league is already paid out a billion dollars to former players, suffering the facts of head injuries, memory loss, depression, headaches, anxiety, dementia. america s favorite game is also very violent, back to you. it sure is.
bit by bit, foot by foot to try to clear these guys out. jesse: are the truckers nonviolent? are they just sitting there? what s the deal there? it s almost impossible to overstate just how peaceful of a protest movement this is. jesse, i covered portland in 2020 during black lives matter and i covered this. and it s just two different worlds. these guys are playing music. they are holding christian worship services. giving out free coffee and food. christian groups here are serving the homeless population in ottawa. which even the ottawa city government doesn t do. cooperating with cops. these guys are pro-cop. there is a lot of frustration with the fact that the cops have to be doing this job because a lot of the cops on the ground don t want to be here. but, they are not violent. they are actually very peaceful. so they re really upset. they are frustrated. they are sad. they re getting cleared out. buff the violence, the sort of maximum violence here is maybe a couple sort of s