July’s player demonstrations at the start of, and during, the MLS is Back tournament came more than a month after the killing of George Floyd — the league had been dormant because ofCOVID since mid-March — and had been well planned. The protests leading to Wednesday’s game postponements in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake  on Sunday camerapidly, and players quickly followed up with their reasoning.

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