Video: LA Deputies Refuse to Work High School Football Game After Players Take Knee During Anthem

VIDEO: LA Deputies Refuse to Work High School Football Game After Players Take Knee During Anthem

Some Jefferson Parish, LA, deputies are refusing to work extra detail shifts at Bonnabel High School football games after a majority of the team took a knee during the national anthem during last weekend’s football game.

A picture, captured by someone through a fence at the game, shows what appears to be a vast majority on one knee before the game, WVUE TV reports.

After that expression, some Jefferson Parish deputies took offense to the display.

“My understanding is, we’ve had some officers that said they will not work the Bonnabel High football games,” Sheriff Newell Normand said. “I understand why, in light of Colin Kaepernick's comments, specifically when he says, ‘Cops are getting paid leave for killing people.’ That's not right, that's not right by anyone's standards. The fact of the matter is we risk our lives each and every day for the safety and security of our constituency throughout this country.”

Now some deputies won’t sign up for the volunteer security detail because the players took a knee.

“That is a voluntary detail, so I suspect I will have some officers refuse to work the Bonnabel High School games,” Normand said. “The same way that the Bonnabel players have every right to kneel during the national anthem, my officers have every right not to volunteer to work the Bonnabel high school football game.”