Free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick sent out a tweet Tuesday calling the shooting of Alton Sterling in Louisiana a "state sanctioned lynching by means of gun violence" after prosecutors declined to press charges against the two police officers responsible for his death.
Sterling, a black man, died in July 2016 after being shot multiple times at close range by two white Baton Rouge police officers.
The officers alleged Sterling was reaching for a gun while being held to the ground. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said Tuesday the officers "acted as reasonable officers under existing law and were justified in their use of force.