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When Cleveland Browns wide receiver Andrew Hawkins gave an emotional statement on Dec. 15, 2014, explaining why he wore a t-shirt with the names Tamir Rice and John Crawford III — two young black males who had recently been gunned down by police in Ohio — to a pre-game warmup, he said that “a call for justice shouldn’t offend or disrespect anybody. A call for justice shouldn’t warrant an apology.”
Nearly two years later on Aug.