I’ve watched and re-watched the video the New Orleans Saints’ Malcolm Jenkins posted to Instagram, and read and re-read his caption under it.
For someone who has collected so much goodwill and done many good deeds, it feels surprisingly wrong-headed.
On Friday, Jenkins, wearing a black hoodie pulled over his head, posted the 36-second video in which he said, “We gotta stay focused. All of this back and forth that going on right now is a distraction. Comments were made, and they were wrong. Allow those who were impacted by it to voice their grievances, but we’ve got to stay focused because Breonna Taylor’s killers are still not arrested.