What " criminals " have yelled racism to circumvent arrest ? From what I've seen the ones in the news couldn't yell anything because they were killed . Like Philando Castille for example ? Poor guy was pulled over for being black . The excuse the officer gave was total bs and he'd been pulled over for doing nothing another dozen times or so . But I guess he fits your description of a " criminal " . At least he has the right skin color apparently . 
  And funny how some people are so "terribly offended" by this protest all of a sudden . Players have been kneeling since last season and because Trump says something about it all of his followers are up in arms and they're " boycotting " the NFL . If they cared so damn much about disrespecting the flag then why didn't they walk away a long time ago ? It's because they really don't care about " respect " otherwise they'd demand their president show some once and a while .