WASHINGTON -- Eagles Safety Malcolm Jenkins traded his shoulder pads for a notepad Thursday as he and three other NFL players met with members of Congress to urge them to make the criminal justice system more fair and to focus on improving the relationship between law enforcement and minority communities.
For some of them, the issue was personal.
Johnson Bademosi, a Lions defensive back originally from Maryland, said that when he was young his father was convicted of a non-violent drug offense. An immigrant, his father was deported to Nigeria and has never returned to the United States, Bademosi said after meeting with Sen.