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Earl Edwards Jr., D.C. United ‘at the forefront’ as MLS grapples with racial injustice

Under normal circumstances, the remote press conference D.C. United held yesterday would have been about issues like handling the Philadelphia Union’s high-pressing tactics, or injured players, or the Black-and-Red’s efforts to improve in a new formation after a frustrating defeat on Tuesday.

2020 does not offer normal circumstances, however, and with the recent police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the focus in the American sporting landscape has shifted — for good reason — away from the field. As such, United head coach Ben Olsen, goalkeeper Earl Edwards Jr.