WATCH: Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum speak about D.C. riots after Heat win
After their 107 – 105 win over the Miami Heat, Boston Celtics star wings Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum spoke with the media about the violent mob’s attempts to prevent the certification of President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory.
As was the case with many NBA players, coaches and staff around the league, the duo were also disturbed by what they saw, particularly in light of the ruling of no charges being filed in the case of Jacob Blake — a Black man shot by police in front of his own children — and the related protests over the previous summer regarding police violence.
With those protesters merely demanding equal treatment before the law being met with considerably more force and decisive action than those seeking to upend democratic transfers of power, it is understandable the two wished to address the day’s events immediately.
“Before we get started, we definitely want to speak to some of the things that’s been going on in our society,” began Brown.
“It reminds me of what Dr. Martin Luther King has said, that there is two split, different Americas, and one America you get to you get killed by sleeping in your car, selling cigarettes or playing in your backyard. In another America, you get to storm the Capitol, no tear gas, no massive arrest. So I think it’s obvious it’s 2021, and I don’t think anything has changed. We want to still acknowledge that we want to still push for change that we’re looking for, but as of yet we have not seen it.”
“We want to continue to keep conversations alive,” he added.
For Brown and Tatum’s extended words on yesterday’s events, please watch the video embedded above.
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