Texas GOP: O’Rourke Takes a Knee and Rejects American Values

What exactly is it that they are protesting?
Too much money, food, religion, freedom? The right to be stoopid and make me watch it?
Beto can go pound sand along with the free-stuff crowd. I don't need another politician spending my grandchildren into the poor house.
Ba-bye Beto.

That is an irrelevant issue to the NFL player's protests. That is an issue between the NFL and the players. If the NFL chooses to not address the issue, and you disagree then put the blame "for on the clock" issue on the NFL.

Do I agree with the players protest? No, but the players have that Right to protest, but I also have the Right to ignore them and their employer.

There's just as many or more that show folks being argumentative, non-compliant, evading, in other words acting as if they have no obligation to follow the directions of a police officer. Yes, sometimes cops get nervous trigger fingers, I assert to the never ending training to use force if they fear for themselves, but the vast majority of videos I've seen that involved injury or death by cops showed folks who had no respect for the badge, no discipline to follow direction and refused to do as officers asked. When a cop tells me to get on the ground, or let me see your hands, I won't argue, yet some idiots do. I've never seen any video that involved cops saying anything remotely like your examples. I'm not saying they don't exist, I've just never seen it.
As far as your first statement, every civil service municipality in Texas and most other states prohibit their cops and firefighters from any political protest or campaigning while on duty. Is that a constitutional violation?

Every American has the right to protest whatever they want - on their own time & NOT while representing an organization such as the a team, the NFL or the military. Military members are strictly prohibited from protesting anything while in uniform, because they are the face of whatever branch they belong to. This is the wrong way, wrong platform & wrong time to be protesting police brutality. I find it extraordinarily sad that these thugs picked this topic to protest. Just watch any of the TV reality police shows & you can easily see how stupid & noncompliant these folks are. If anything, they deserve to get some sense knocked into their pea-brains. We can’t do as we please without consequences. So, maybe we should call all this disrespectful kneeling “Black Privilege”...

I’m completely bewildered when the Beto supporters begin screaming that every American has the right to protest and censorship of the NFL is wrong because it takes away American’s rights, and then they are backing Beto for “common sense gun control” (taking away the rights of law abiding Americans) and “common sense immigration” (that would mean NO MORE ILLEGALS). I also believe funding the housing of all of these poor asylum seeking people (not eligible for asylum under United States Code) is against my rights as a taxpayer by spending US tax dollars on non US citizens. There is nothing sensible or constitutional in any kind of gun control and it makes zero common sense to keep letting our souther border be overrun by any dirtbag that decides they want to come to the USA. That’s not how immigration works. You can’t have it both ways! But, then again, it’s not your money paying for freeloaders, everyone wants free stuff and that’s Beto’s entire agenda. Maybe since Beto’s not Irish, he’s related to the late great socialist Mussolini...