As citizens of Charlotte continue to protest the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, Panthers quarterback Cam Newton made a statement with his pregame attire.
Newton warmed up for Sunday’s game in a shirt with a quote from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From a Birmingham Jail.”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” the shirt reads.
At his press conference on Thursday, Newton spoke at length about the shooting.
“I’m an African-American. I am not happy how the justice has been kind of dealt with over the years,” Newton said. “The state of oppression in our community.