NFL Cleveland Browns running Isaiah Crowell posted a graphic image on Instagram this weekend that disrespects police in a horrible way. The image which was taken down shows a black man slitting a cops throat. He reportedly took it down not because it was wrong, but because he didn’t want to get in trouble.
ESPN reported:
Cleveland Browns running back Isaiah Crowell apologized and said his social media reaction to last week’s killing of two black men by police was “very wrong.”
Crowell said he made an “extremely poor decision” when he posted a drawing that graphically showed a hooded individual putting what looks like a machete into the throat of a police officer.
“It was an extremely poor decision and I apologize for that mistake and for offending people,” Crowell said in a statement released by the team. “My values and beliefs do not match that image.”
The post went up after the police killings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, and before the killing of five Dallas police officers Thursday night.
Crowell wrote that he was “outraged and upset” by the killing of Sterling and Castile, and “outraged and saddened” by the killing of the five Dallas police officers. He called last week “an emotional and difficult week,” but said his post was wrong.
“We have to be better as a society,” Crowell said. “It’s not about color, it’s about what’s right and wrong. I was very wrong in posting that image. Every single life matters, every death as a result of violence should be treated with equal outrage and penalty.”
If this was a role reversal you could guarantee they would be coming down hard on whoever posted it, but since a black man posted it, he will get off without a blemish. What do you think?