NY Times · Apr 21, 2018
Accepting Rights Award, Colin Kaepernick Decries ‘Lawful Lynching’
Colin Kaepernick, left, accepted the Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award for 2018 from the human rights organization’s secretary general, Salil Shetty, on Saturday in Amsterdam.AMSTERDAM — Amnesty International gave the former N.F.L. quarterback Colin Kaepernick its Ambassador of Conscience Award on Saturday for his kneeling protest of racial injustice, which began a sports movement and might have cost him his job.
Eric Reid, one of Kaepernick’s former San Francisco 49ers teammates, presented him with the award. In his acceptance speech, Kaepernick described police killings of African-Americans and Latinos in the United States as lawful lynchings.
