Fort Worth-area high school athletes, alums respond to George Floyd’s death, injustice
In the wake of the killing of George Floyd, social media has become a platform for everyone imaginable across the country — from professional athletes to movie stars to your average Joe.
As protests continue, the tweets do as well.
Two professional athletes who are from the area, Myles Garrett and Myles Turner, have taken to Twitter, and it’s created an opportunity for them to address other athletes and coaches from Dallas-Fort Worth and to let the world know how they feel about Black Lives Matter and social injustice.
Garrett, who shined at Arlington Martin and was the No. 1 overall draft pick of the Cleveland Browns in 2017, wanted to help after David McAtee, a barbecue chef from Louisville who on Monday was shot and killed by police officers who didn’t have their body cams turned on.
Turner, who played at Euless Trinity and the University of Texas and is now with the Indiana Pacers, has been active on Twitter like Garrett. He recently tweeted out a list of black-owned businesses in DFW so that the public would frequent those establishments.
Former DFW softball players Kennedy Hardy (Mansfield) and Brooke Kolanek (Arlington) made a statement by holding signs. Kolanek, who is white, held a sign that read “Is her life worth less than mine?” And Hardy, who is black, held a sign that read “Is her life worth more than mine?” Both signs had arrows pointing to the other.
Thousands more have expressed their opinions:
This story was originally published June 4, 2020 at 3:11 PM.
