More than 100 Black MLS players raised their right fists and took a knee before the MLS is Back Tournament opener on Wednesday in Orlando, Florida, in a show of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter social justice movement.
Some players wore T-shirts over their jerseys with the words "Black and Proud" and "Silence is Violence" before the match between Orlando City SC and Inter Miami CF, and both teams' starting players as well as the referees took a knee before kickoff.
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The demonstration lasted eight minutes, 46 seconds, the amount of time white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on the neck of George Floyd, the 46-year-old Black man whose death in late May sparked nationwide protests.