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GREEN BAY – The doors to Lambeau Field opened to Matt LaFleur this week after months away from the facility because of the coronavirus pandemic, but football wasn’t his priority.
It has been almost two weeks since George Floyd’s death in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department. Two weeks of protesting. Two weeks of intense introspection.
For the Green Bay Packers, that meant shelving their virtual reality offseason training. Instead, their regular Zoom meetings became a place for social discussion, for empathy, for sharing past experiences and perspectives. It’s where the genesis of an almost two-minute video released Thursday pushing for social and policy reform against systemic racism and police brutality materialized.