Penalties for Kneeling Being Considered

What's so interesting about it is that the courts often work another angle entirely, which is this: is it really a public space?

For example, is a movie theater a private place or a public place?

It's both.

 

Or the worst sin of all ... not wearing the proper socks.

 

No, I don’t think I’d have any case at all, nor would I expect to. I certainly wouldn’t purposely piss off my employer and most of the town residents to make some muddled point about police brutality — while I’m working.

 

@CD Boogie works for a municipality at town hall?

Holy crap.

 

The fact that we're two years into this story rather disproves your contention here. In fairness to the NFL, its initial response was to simply allow the players to do it in the hopes that it would eventually be ignored, as you suggest. But "eventually ignored" didn't happen. Instead, the story just kept growing.

And I think most in the NFL were willing to let Kaepernick fulfill that destiny, as long as some other owner was the one who signed him. But none were willing to be that guy.

 

The movie theater is a reach. I don't think any state has allowed that.

Focusing on the place is misguided. You have to find a reason why otherwise fine limits on employee speech would change by location? As has been pointed out, public employees work in public spaces and are restricted in their speech.

 

If "Tebow type kneeling" occurs during the anthem, then yes, it does.

 

And cops kept roughing up and killing people. That didn't go away either.

 

That’s no reason for people to stop making futile gestures while they’re working...

 

The story grows because the owners keep doing dumb shit to keep it alive, like the blackballs. If they had just as a body said at the outset, "we don't like this, but this is their right as an American citizen" and stuck to it this would be just another subject on right wing Facebook posts by now. Or they could have given the DoD back some money and keep teams in the locker room for the anthem as they used to do.

 

If by "interesting" you mean "laughed out of court," you're right.