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Bucks head coach Doc Rivers again denounces ICE activity: ‘It’s not morally right’
BOSTON – Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers has spoken out against the activities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on two occasions since October, and he was asked on Feb. 1 before his team played the Boston Celtics if he stood by his previous comments.
In particular, he was asked whether he still believed the killing of U.S. citizen Renée Nicole Macklin Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross on Jan. 7 was still murder. Rivers had called the fatal shooting “straight-up murder” on Jan. 9.
He continued: “You know, my dad [Grady] was a cop [in Maywood, Illinois]. My best friend is a cop. And he's probably more upset about it than me. The training of ICE is horrible. We all know that. And being in Minnesota, where there's 130,000, I think, undocumented people, why not Texas where there's 1.7 million undocumented? I look at our league. I look at the NBA. We're celebrating Pioneer's Day today, right? And I look at our league and think [Nigerian immigrant and former Houston Rockets player Hakeem] Olajuwon could have been taken off the streets. But we would, right now, the way brown people feel, only the brown people would be taken off the streets and it's just not right. And it's not morally right, so I stand by my words 100%."
Doc Rivers Defiantly Doubles Down On ICE Comments, Claims NBA Great Could Have Been Rounded Up
BOSTON, MA – Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers decided to double-down on previous criticism of ICE prior to Sunday's game against the Boston Celtics, standing by his characterization of Renee Good's death as "murder." He even implied that NBA legend Hakeem Olajuwon, a legal immigrant from Nigeria in the 1980s, could have been rounded up by ICE.
"I look at our league and I think Olajuwon could have been taken off the streets," Rivers said. "Right now, the way brown people feel, [is that] only brown people would be taken off the streets. And it's just not right, and it's not morally right."
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Reporter asked #Bucks coach Doc Rivers whether he …
Gary Washburn: An Outkick reporter asked #Bucks coach Doc Rivers whether he regrets his previous comments denouncing the actions of ICE. Rivers said absolutely not.
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