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September 7, 2017

NFL's Michael Bennett Says Vegas Police Threatened to Shoot Him
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And Seattle Seahawks star Michael Bennett said Wednesday that police
officers assaulted him and threatened his life outside a boxing match in
Las Vegas last month, as they arrested him while he joined a crowd of
people fleeing the sound of gunshots. In a statement posted on Twitter,
Bennett wrote that an officer threatened to "blow my f****** head off"
and that "Las Vegas police officers singled me out and pointed their
guns at me for doing nothing more than simply being a black man in the
wrong place at the wrong time." Bennett has joined a protest movement
led by former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick against racial
injustice, sitting on the sidelines during the playing of the national
anthem ahead of Seahawks games.


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