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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Jul 9, 2020, 07:22 PM Jul 2020

8 minutes, 46 seconds of silence marks MLS return

Almost 200 Major League Soccer players stood in silence for 8 minutes and 46 seconds in Florida to honor George Floyd Wednesday night before the first MLS game since the pandemic shutdown.

The group of players, dressed in black T-shirts, black masks and black gloves, raised their right arms one at a time while standing in midfield as part of a demonstration against racial injustice. The movement was organized by Black Players for Change, which was created after Floyd's May death at the hands of Minneapolis police.


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Players wore T-shirts with slogans like Black And Proud, Silence Is Violence and Black All The Time while demonstrating at the MLS is Back tournament held at ESPN's Wide World of Sports complex in Disney World.

Some players from Orlando City and Inter Miami knelt during the protest and then participated in a separate moment of silence before the opening kick-off, The Associated Press reported.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/more-sports/8-minutes-46-seconds-of-silence-marks-mls-return/ar-BB16xpik?li=BBnb7Kz
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