The underlying issue is based on a lie; that African Americans are being unfairly targeted by police and that police are out of control. In fact, according to crime stats outlined in " The War on Cops" by Heather MacDonald, unarmed white men are more likely to be shot and killed in their encounters with Police than unarmed black men.  Additionally, it is widely known that crime rates are out of control in the black community, with close to 50% of America's murders taking place entirely within that one community, despite it forming only 12% of the population. Thousands of Black men and even young teens and children have died at the hands of other Black men since some NFL players started to opt out of standing for the anthem. Only a dozen or so unarmed black men have died at the hands of police, many of them non white.