When people objected to the NFL anthem-kneelers on the grounds that their actions were disrespectful to the flag, or to the country, or to the troops, or to veterans . . . their defenders said to focus not on their tactic but on the substance of their message.
We did. And we repeatedly demonstrated that their message was false. They claimed that America's police officers were engaging on a massive scale in racist violence against black suspects, and that this was being permitted and accepted both by authorities and by the public. In order to demonstrate this, they misrepresented the facts in incidents like Ferguson and Baltimore, while failing to come up with any statistical evidence that this trend existed on any broad scale.