Good story on MLB player whose career was sidelined for taking a knee

[gabeana]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/06/sport/bruce-maxwell-protest-mlb-trump-usa-cmd-spt-intl/index.html

On September 22, 2017, President Donald Trump went to Maxwell's hometown in Huntsville, Alabama. During his address to a packed arena, Trump took aim at the NFL players who'd been kneeling during the national anthem, protesting police brutality.
To a cheering crowd, Trump said: "Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, 'Get that son of a b*tch off the field right now. Out! He's fired. He's fired!'"
The sports world was stunned, and Maxwell took it personally.
"I went through these racial injustices when I was a kid and to hear our current president at a rally in Huntsville, Alabama, where I'm from, and to see the amount of people in this city that supported him and showed him love was shell-shocking for me."
The next day, he addressed his teammates, the staff at Oakland and the club's ownership personnel and outlined his intentions.

Maxwell struggled to cope with the backlash. At the end of the season, he found himself without the support of his teammates; he was alone.
"Outside of saying 'we support you,' there was no substantial support. The team said: 'It's your choice', we're behind you.' They gave me the freedom to do it, they didn't object," he added.
"But down the road, there was no additional support. They knew I was getting death threats, they knew I was having a rough time. There was no psychological support, nobody reached out, nobody checked in."
CNN reached out to the A's for comment but has not received a response to Maxwell's assertions.

[FSogol]

1. He made a dramatic stance when no one else did, but he was really only a border line

major league player. He spent 7 years in the minors and only played 127 games over 3 seasons in the majors.

He also had a felony arrest for aggravated assault and is still on probation.

[Tom Rinaldo]

2. About that assault charge

From the story:

"Maxwell says he became depressed and paranoid and his condition reached a nadir when he pulled a gun on a food delivery driver at his front door in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Nobody was hurt and he described it as a misunderstanding, but later that evening around a dozen police officers showed up at his door and arrested him on a felony charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct with a weapon.

Police bodycam footage showed him being escorted out of his residence, shirtless and barefoot. He plead guilty to the lesser charge, according to the Arizona Republic, after the state dropped the felony charge, when it agreed that Maxwell didn't point the gun at the driver, as police originally alleged. He was sentenced to two years probation."

[brush]

3. Sorry he went through that but Colin Kaepernick of the NFL...

began that movement and endured, and continues to endure, much more loss.