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In October 2017, a Facebook post seeking to link protests against extrajudicial killings by police to single-parent families appeared and made the usual rounds. The post misrepresents taking a knee demonstrations — in which National Football League players kneel during the national anthem in order to bring attention to police brutality, and which were originated by former San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick in 2016 and continued into 2017 — by tying them to several players who have been retired for years: The post contains several false claims: The post's premise rests on the theory that growing up in a single-parent household can be a predictor of criminal activity. According to a 2003 study by the Center for Law and Social Policy: But that argument has come under question. In 2012, University of Maryland sociology professor Philip Cohen noted: Not one of the players named in the post is currently active in the NFL. Terricka Cromartie said in an Instagram post in October 2016 that her husband's employment was terminated because he kneeled during the national anthem before a game, much like Kaepernick took a knee as part of his demonstrations. (Cromartie subsequently deleted her post.) Faulk, who is currently an analyst for the NFL Network, has also expressed support for Kaepernick, saying: On 24 September 2017, Faulk also criticized President Donald Trump for saying that NFL franchise owners should fire players who took part in any protest: Lewis, who is an NFL analyst for Showtime, said in September 2017 that the Baltimore Ravens (his former team) almost signed Kaepernick to a contract, but were put off after the quarterback's girlfriend posted a picture of Lewis and Steve Bisciotti juxtaposed with a still from the movie Django Unchained showing Samuel L. Jackson's slave character mourning his owner.
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