Naomi Osaka Drops Out of Tennis Semifinal to Protest Police Brutality
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etonline.comprotest against racial injustice and «the continued genocide of Black people at the hand of the police.»«Before I am a [sic] athlete, I am a Black woman.
As a Black woman I feel as though there are much more important matters at hand tat need immediate attention, rather than watching me play tennis,» Osaka wrote a statement posted to her social media accounts on Wednesday, sharing that she would not be competing in her semifinal match of the Western & Southern Open tournament in Mason, Ohio, in the wake of Jacob Blake's shooting by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin.«Watching the continued genocide of Black people at the hand of the police is honestly making me sick to my stomach,” continued the athlete, who grew up in the United States, but.
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