During the summer, there were protests in the city of Atlanta following the deaths of Philandro Castile and Alton Sterling. Current Georgia State football players Penny Hart, Aaron Winchester, Bryan Williams and Taz Bateman took to the streets to not only protest the deaths of Castile, and Sterling, but over all of the injustices that African-Americans face on a daily basis.
“It was amazing to be able to see how passionate everybody was about what was going on, and how everyone really just needed to grieve over the situation because a lot of people are tired from everything that’s going on, and that it could happen to us was really eye opening to see how many people cared,” Hart said.