Fat Joe said protesting the national anthem has nothing to do with the police.
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After San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the national anthem as a form of protest that he said was motivated by police brutality and racial injustice, the rapper — whose real name is Joseph Cartagena — said it was disrespectful to the military.
“Having thout about it, I ain’t with protesting the #NationalAnthem,” he tweeted. “Soldiers died fighting 4 our freedom not cops. Why disrepsected them?” (RELATED: Wayne Newton To Colin Kaepernick: ‘Get The Hell Out Of Here’)
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Cartagena later deleted the tweet, but not before it could be retweeted by his followers.
Tweeted and Deleted: #FatJoe speaks pic.twitter.com/xs6c3RkBhB
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