4 Officers Walk Out Of WNBA Game Over Players’ Offensive Shirts

Note: we are republishing this story, which originally made the news in July 2016.

4 off-duty officers from the Minneapolis Police Department were working security for the WNBA Lynx game when they abandoned their posts. The four saw the players’ pre-game shirts, became upset, and walked off.

The players were wearing black T-shirts that had the names of two black men who had been shot by police. One name was Philando Castile, a man shot and killed by police during a traffic stop in Minnesota.