'The point of defending free speech is not that you expect to be perfectly aligned with every speech act that is protected,' Buttigieg said.
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said he supports the NFL players who choose to kneel for the National Anthem as a way to protest police brutality.
“That’s a fundamental American freedom," Buttigieg continued."It’s a huge part of what makes America, America. And when that same flag was on my shoulder, I didn’t think of the flag as something that itself as an image was sacred. I thought of it as something that was sacred because of what it represented. One of the very things it represented is the freedom of speech, and that’s one of the reasons I served.
Kaepernick later switched his protest to taking a knee prompted in part by a letter the quarterback received from Green Beret Nate Boyer, who also briefly suited up as a long snapper for the Seattle Seahawks. Boyer and Kaepernick later talked about the protest and Boyer suggested kneeling instead of sitting.
"Wouldn’t you love to see one of those NFL owners, when someone disrespects our flag, to say: ‘Get that son of a b---h off the field right now. Out! He’s fired. He’s fired!,’” Trump told a crowd during a September 2017 rally in Huntsville, Alabama.
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