Announcer live where you live, this is abc7 news. A major league stage for this east bay marching band. Tonight they took advantage of an as game appearance to call out what they see as social injish. Good evening. Im dan ashley. Ama daetz is on maternity leave. As rookie Bruce Maxwell took a knee. Tonight the oakland unified honor band did the same. Live at the ballpark with more on the message those students delivered tonight. Katie . Reporter dan, some fans were not happy about tonights protest, but students tell me this was their opportunity to be heard because theyre simply not old enough to vote. Playing the National Anthem in front of a major league crowd can be nerveracking, but tonight students say it was empowering. People get to see what were thinking because everybody has their own opinion. Reporter the oakland yeun fied School District honor band took a knee while playing the anthem at the Oakland Athletics game. Theyre at the age where they dont have a lot of power becaus
Old enough to vote. Playing the National Anthem in front of a major league crowd can be rveracking, but tonight students say it was empowering. People get to see what were thinking because everybody has their own opinion. Reporter the oakland yeun fied School District hor band took a knee while playing the anthem at the Oakland Athletics game. There at the age where they dont have a lot of power because they cant vote and theyre just watching whats happening. But theyre also old enough to know whats going on. Reporte President Donald Trump said nfl players should stand for the National Anthem or be fired, referenced colin kaepernick. Students are upset about the pridents rhetoric, the violence i charlotte, and other issues some may consider too mature for children. We want fod s what hes saying is not okay. My kids come home and talk a lot about whats going on in the world and with our current administration, and even my 9yearold son, he has a lot to say. Reporter the band first took a
When i have an asthma attack. I feel like a fish with no water. Learn how to prevent your childs next asthma attack. Because even one attack is one too many. Announcer live where you live, this is abc7 news. A major league stage for this east bay marching band. Tonight they took advantage of an as game appearance to call out what they see as social injish. Good evening. Im dan ashley. Ama daetz is on maternity leave. As rookie Bruce Maxwell took a knee. Tonight the oakland unified honor band did the same. Live at the ballpark with more on the message those students delivered tonight. Katie . Reporter dan, some fans were not happy about tonights protest, but students tell me this was their opportunity to be heard because theyre simply not old enough to vote. Playing the National Anthem in front of a major league crowd can be nerveracking, but tonight students say it was empowering. People get to see what were thinking because everybody has their own opinion. Reporter the oakland yeun fi
And im a little concerned that were not getting our moneys worth at all. Im concerned that we are not being told what hadth investigators are doing. You know, of course they have done a wonderful job, but were not getting reports about what were getting for our money. What are they doing . I dont see them out there. I had asked it be important in order to improve the taxi service at the ballpark that they have the investigators out there to make it easy for us to get in and get out. They made a decision it was a waste of time not to have taxi investigators over on 2nd street and over on the ballpark to prevent the pill ferning and stealing and illegal activities going on thereby the tmcs and by illegal limousines and [speaker not understood] taxis. They made a decision, its a waste of your time. No, if you have a presence there ticket these people, double parking, illegal parking, solicitation, then we can get more taxis down there. Otherwise youre not getting more taxis down there and
Naranjo. Barry toronto. Toby edelhart. Any of those folks here . Good afternoon, sir. Hello, my name is rufus abercrombie. Im standing because i want to tell you how i feel about my country. I got drafted in the army from Balboa High School when i was 20 years old and sent to vietnam. And i depth just go once. They sent me back twice and they sent me back three time. I served my country with proudness because we are a country of christians and i had values even in war. And i got promoted as a Staff Sergeant in war when i was 20 years old and could barely read and right, but i was pretty good at reading a map. I grew up in texas, about 150 miles out of dallas. Im talking to you today because ive had just about every part of my body cut into, my brain. I have false lip. They gave me new surgery. And all of this, i realize that i would have to die one day. When i close my eyes i wanted to tell god, lord, i gave it my best wherever i was. And where i was, if i saw the street dirty i would