According to ESPN, when Ha Ha Clinton-Dix turns on his TV he is reminded of the most important reason he continues to pursue his degree in criminal justice from the University of Alabama.
Ferguson. Baltimore. Dallas. Milwaukee. Tulsa. Charlotte. The cities change. The violence, the frustration, do not.
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Clinton-Dix has seen the distrust, the disdain before. The anxiety, the anger before. But not like this. He wants to someday do something about it.
“I understand what’s going on in this world,” the Green Bay Packers third-year safety said. “But cops have to go home at the end of the day. They have a family. They have to go home, too.
“Growing up where I’m from, some people are afraid of cops. They don’t really like cops. And what a lot of people don’t realize is, they’re really not the bad guys. They’re really on our side, they’re really trying to help us out. And sometimes, we don’t understand that.”