NFL Player Honors Fallen Police Officers

Nick Kangadis | August 21, 2017
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Sometimes it only takes one person to help you breathe a sigh of relief that not all players in the NFL are weekly-offended social justice warriors.

Free safety for the Green Bay Packers Ha Ha Clinton-Dix took to Twitter on Saturday to show off his new cleats. These new cleats weren’t just any cleats though. On them, Clinton-Dix wrote out the names of the police officers who lost their lives in an ambush in Kissimmee, Fla., Friday night.

Sgt. Sam Howard, a 36-year-old Marine veteran, and 27-year-old Officer Matthew Baxter were gunned down by the same man in related incidents.

Clinton-Dix posted a picture of his tribute to the officers on Twitter ahead of the Packers Saturday night matchup against the Washington Redskins in Landover, Md.

Here is the tweet:

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It’s refreshing to see an NFL player call law enforcement heroes, given that the league hasn’t had the best track record of condemning those that would condemn police officers.

I’ll just leave a photo of Colin Kaepernick’s socks (from a practice when he was actually employed) right here:

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