ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Philadelphia Union’s Alejando Bedoya wanted to make a statement about gun violence, in the wake of the weekend of carnage in El Paso and Dayton that took another piece of the nation’s soul.
He grew up in Weston, Florida, close to the mass shooting last year at Majory Stoneman Douglas High School. Bedoya wore a shirt reading “MSD Strong” under his jersey for the 2018 opening game. Before Sunday night’s Major League Soccer game against D.C. United, he had posted on Twitter his thoughts about how lawmakers could put a stop to the mass destruction of fellow human beings.