Michael Bennett Responds to NFL Meeting, Says He'll Protest

Michael Bennett Responds to NFL Meeting, Says He'll Protest
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Seattle Seahawks Michael Bennett compared the NFL team owners who require players to stand during the U.S. national anthem to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision, the ruling that classified enslaved African-Americans as “property.”

“I plan on sitting down,” Bennett said Wednesday, KING5 reported. “Like I said, I continue to do what I’ve been doing and the consequences are the consequences I guess.”