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Packers' Billy Turner weighs in on effectiveness of anthem protests, skipping NFL games

GREEN BAY - The pain in Billy Turner’s voice was palpable, so poignant it could not only be heard, but felt.

Almost a week had passed since the Green Bay Packers offensive lineman watched video of police officer Rusten Sheskey shooting Kenosha man Jacob Blake seven times in the back from point-blank range. Yes, Turner still hurt Friday afternoon, but pain is a complex thing. It takes different forms. The pain Turner felt on his Zoom call with reporters, sitting down in a “B Nice” shirt before a block-G backdrop, is not the pain required to gut through a Sunday afternoon on an NFL field.