Photo: SMU band members kneel while playing anthem

Five members of the Southern Methodist University band took a knee while playing the national anthem prior to their game against Texas Christian University.

There were also a select number of students in the student section who joined in the protests.

“I feel like coming from an African American background — I grew up in Detroit, Michigan, which is a predominantly black city — that I get tired of seeing my black brothers and sisters dying from injustices and unjustified reasons,” one student, Coda Boyce, told the Dallas Morning News.

“I’m not against all police officers, I’m not saying all cops are bad, I’m not saying all Caucasian people are bad, because they’re not,” Boyce said. “I just believe that the injustice being shown in the past couple of years has been too much to handle. And I’m a little tired of it.”

Boyce also who wore a shirt that read “#BlackatSMU” and said she would kneel throughout the season if necessary.

The protests come on a day that Dallas first responders were being honored at the game.

 

Dallas police chief David Brown was midfield and performed the coin-flip prior to the game. Members of the band deny they chose this specific date to stage the protest.

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