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MEMORANDUM

TO: Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner

Troy Vincent, Executive Vice President, NFL Football Operations

FROM: Malcolm Jenkins, Philadelphia Eagles

Anquan Boldin, Buffalo Bills

Torrey Smith, Philadelphia Eagles

Michael Bennett, Seattle Seahawks

RE: Player Activism for Racial Equality and Criminal Justice Reform

OVERVIEW

As players whom have been advocating for social justice for the past year, we appreciate the opportunity to engage with you, the league, owners, coaches and GMs to make our communities stronger. As we shared with you, the silence following our individual and collective demonstrations around the national anthem to raise awareness to racial inequality and issues surrounding criminal justice reform has been met with inconsistencies in press coverage and perceived lack of support.

To recap our discussion, currently there are more than 40 active players who have participated in our “Players Coalition” to work on criminal justice reform on various levels (some more than others). Below is a summary of the activities we have conducted to date.

Our focus has been to identify and place our efforts on the key areas of reform where our influence and support can make a meaningful difference in the community. Those include prioritizing Criminal Justice Reform and Police/Community Relations Engagement. Within those two areas that includes: police transparency/accountability, bail reform, criminalization of poverty, mass incarceration (mandatory minimum sentences, juvenile life parole) and Clean Slate Act, which also includes emphasis on diversion of funds towards community based programs, education and training. (More information below – see Addendum). Through Police/Community Relations & Engagement, we are working with grass roots organizations and police directly through various efforts to build trust within our communities and increase educational and employment opportunities.

Criminal Justice Reform (State, Local and Federal)

– Visits to Capitol Hill and on the state/local level to meet with legislative groups, Senate/House Representatives from our home districts to lobby for reform through individual meetings and testimony before Committees



– Participation in Op-Eds, letters, emails, phone calls and recorded messages to legislators regarding specific criminal justice reform legislation and/or call to action to create legislation



– Participation in media interviews, campaigns and social media on specific issues and the larger goal



– Participation in creative content (videos, PSAs)



– Participation in high-profile educational institutional events or Conferences, such as keynotes, panel discussions and participation in workshops



– Engagement with bi-partisan federal, state and local organizations and non-profit initiatives focused on criminaljustice reform to identify and receive information on legislative efforts, garner resources as well as support todistribute and amplify content/Op-Eds, letters, etc.



Police/Community Relations & Community Engagement



– Listen & Learn Tours (visits to prisons, sit-down meetings with Police Commissioners/Captains, police ride-alongs)



– Inviting the police to participate in our Foundation and community-related work (camps, events, outreach)



– Going into the Community, especially urban, poverty stricken and crime-laden communities to engage withfamilies to speak and understand the issues they are experiencing (ie. the impact on the family both economically and emotionally when a family member is arrested, can’t make bail, has a record and the financial implications of not being able to find a job or get training to better themselves).



– Meetings and engagement with grass roots organizations and educational outlets who are doing work to move legislation and provide resources (legal support, education, career counseling, job placement) for formerly incarcerated

individuals



– Attending town halls to discuss issues and solutions



– Financial support of groups/organizations, including personal donations as well as hosting events to raise funds or resources



– Visits to schools, community organizations and groups who are offering curriculum and attention to human rights issues

CALL TO ACTION



To be clear, we are asking for your support. We appreciate your acknowledgment on the call regarding the clear distinction between support and permission. For us, support means: bear all or part of the weight of; hold up; give assistance to, especially financially; enable to function or act. We need support, collaboration and partnerships to achieve our goal of strengthening the community. There are a variety of ways for you to get involved. Similar to the model we have in place for players to get involved, there are three tiers of engagement based on your comfort level.

To start, we appreciate your agreement on making this an immediate priority. In your words, from Protest to Progress, we need action. This would entail you and other interested owners, coaches and GM’s participating in a Listen & Learn tour (a one/two-day tour) to gain the same knowledge and understanding of the issues and impact on the community. This would include a prison tour, meetings with grass-roots organizations, policy makers/non-profit leaders, police, families in the community and formerly incarcerated individuals.

Other ways we would like to pursue engagement are as follows. Depending on the individual’s level of interest, the involvement can vary.

1) National level – This section will be focused on national/regional attention on the need for CJR and generating publicity, along with working on meaningful legislation when possible. By joining this effort, you agree to participate in conference calls when possible, commit to the next trip to Capitol Hill to meet with Congress, lend your name to Op-Eds, letters to legislators, press opportunities and social media for specific campaigns.

2) State level – With support from the Coalition’s partners, meet with local legislators (Senator, Congress representative) in your state/district to discuss specific legislation. A representative would accompany and provide talking points/supportive statements. Your presence and willingness to support will help propel movement. State level is where there are a lot of opportunities to move legislation. This also includes testifying, meetings with state government officials and business leaders, Police Commissioner/Mayor’s Office, District Attorney Office,

non-profit and grass roots organizations, Op-eds, PSA’s and so forth. The promise of impact here is very real and the players have tons of leverage on the state level because of who they are.

3) Support with Community – If time doesn’t permit to attend or participate in meetings, you agree to lend support through financial commitment or resources to grass roots organizations and community-based organizations whom are doing the real work to impact criminal justice reform and the larger community at whole. Each city/market will be defined by need regarding key areas where you can lend the most support. We are also looking for a commitment to team resources, including broadcast/multi-media opportunities to share content (videos, PSAs featuring players) around specific issues we are trying to impact. This is a bi-partisan approach toward solutions and not politically driven.

Areas of support from our team will include:

A player and/or representative will work with you for all talking points & messaging (you will never have to be the policy expert, just the convener). You will also get regular updates and shared communications.



LEAGUE WIDE SUPPORT

To counter the vast amount of press attention being referred to as the “national anthem protests” versus the large amount of grass roots work that many players around the league have invested their time and resources, we would like to request a league wide initiative that would include a month dedicated to a campaign initiative and related events. Similarly to what the league already implements for breast cancer awareness, honoring military, etc, we would like November to serve as a month of Unity for individual teams to engage and impact the community in their market.

As you stated, each team/market has their own specific issues currently affecting economic and community growth due to mass incarceration, police-related incidents, lack of educational opportunities for poverty-stricken neighborhoods, etc. Through a concerted effort with team and player support with an emphasis on PR, grass roots organizations who are doing the real work could benefit in a big way to improve our communities.

TIMELINE FOR EXECUTION



– Week of August 21st – Conference Call with Players Coalition Leaders with all Owners/Coaches/GMs who have expressed interest. Agenda to follow with more detailed information regarding involvement

– Week of August 25-Sept 5 – Participation in Listen & Learn Tour

– September 1-2 – Optional Participation in Philadelphia ( Malcolm Jenkins hosted event, meetings and filming session for PSAs)

– Week of September 4 – Commitment from Owners/Coaches/GMs. Participation in Development of Announcement/PR Exclusive

– September 9 – Announcement of Owners/Players Support going into Opening Day

– Week of September 10 – Additional Conference Call with Fall Timeline

Addendum

CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM BACKGROUND

The national leaders in criminal justice reform have identified the following areas in which we are placing our focused efforts because they are the key issues crippling our communities. The upside is that there are legislative efforts currently in development or up for a vote in which our participation and support will lead to a positive outcome towards reform. One of the biggest messages we heard in our meetings in Capitol Hill and on the State/local level is that there is bipartisan support for reform, but in order for change to happen, the legislative efforts need to be made a priority. By joining our efforts, we can make a significant impact.

Police Accountability and Transparency

Since 2016, police have shot over 300 men and women in this country. Some of the names and stories are familiar—Jordan Edwards, Trayvon Martin, Alton Sterling, but hundreds of others are not. Unarmed black people are five times as likely to be shot and killed as unarmed white people. Over the last several years, grassroots activists have pushed for change in the face of considerable push-back from police unions and other law enforcement. We need advocates to push for reform on the national level and locally, where groups are demanding oversight boards and better training, and are begging prosecutors to hold law enforcement accountable.

Bail Reform

Across the country, local jails are packed with people who have not been convicted of any crime but can’t afford bail. People are often forced to plead guilty just to end a case rather than sit in jail for months on end awaiting trial. Poor people and communities of color are especially harmed by cash bail policies. Research is clear that people are more likely to commit a crime upon release if they are held in jail for periods beyond a couple of days. Bail disrupts employment and families in communities that are already struggling.

In New York, for example, Kalief Browder, then a 16 year-old child, was arrested on suspicion that he stole a backpack. Since he could not afford the $3,000 bail, Browder was held in solitary confinement at Rikers for three years without trial. Less than a year after his release, the trauma from his imprisonment contributed to his suicide.

The bail reform movement is advocating for eliminating cash bail and only holding people who pose a clear risk to the community. Advocacy is needed at the national, state, and local level to put pressure on legislators and prosecutors. One incredibly important step for achieving bail reform is to make the need for reform increasingly salient. Recently, both Common and Jay Z have lent their expertise and platform to the issue.

Criminalizing Poverty

People are arrested and incarcerated in this country because of their poverty. Local governments enact and enforce laws that punish people for sleeping on the street or in public parks, even when they have nowhere else to go. People living in struggling communities also receive fines and fees for small traffic violations, open container laws, or jaywalking. When they can’t afford to pay the fines, they are later arrested for failure to pay. They inevitably cannot make bail and then sit in a jail

functioning as a debtor’s prison.

There are serious reform efforts at the local level to encourage local governments and law enforcement to stop wasting resources jailing poor people and instead invest in long-term solutions to address poverty. These issues arise in almost every American city, from New York to San Diego to Houston.

Drug Crimes

There is a nationwide understanding that the drug war of the last three decades has failed to reduce drug use while providing no clear benefit to communities. It has disproportionately affected people of color and the poor. Polling shows that Americans across the ideological spectrum realize we can’t arrest our way out of a drug epidemic and we should instead address drug issues from a public health perspective. Despite this enormous change in public opinion, law enforcement continues to arrest for drug crimes and prosecutors insist on overly harsh sentences. The opiate epidemic has led to new harmful policies based on fear rather than science, and prosecutors across the country are charging homicide in drug overdose scenarios. Drug addicts and low level drug dealers are facing murder for an addict’s overdose leading to death.

Reform efforts are concentrated at the state and local level advocating for decriminalization of many drug crimes, deprioritizing the enforcement of existing low level drug laws, increasing treatment availability, and backing off of fear based rather than science based charging policies. Advocacy is needed at the national, state, and local level.

Treating Kids Like Kids

Each day, around 10,000 children are held in adult jails and prisons. Policies that allow children to be charged as adults ignore scientific research about brain development and impulse control. Research also shows that young people can be rehabilitated and become productive members of the community. Adult jails and prisons do not offer necessary programs to help a child mature out of crime. In fact, children are often traumatized in adult jail, setting them up for overwhelming challenges upon release.

Advocates in several states are pushing for legislation to prevent prosecutors from unilaterally charging kids as adults without judicial oversight or defense representation (“direct file”). And grassroots activists, public defenders, and juvenile experts are pressuring elected officials to simply stop charging kids as adults so that they can stay in juvenile programming, where they belong. Help is needed in all cities to pressure elected officials and help push potential legislation over the edge.

Excessive Sentences

Mandatory Minimums

Mandatory minimums – required sentences attached to certain crimes– have led to the explosion of our prison population. Requirements of egregiously long sentences for certain crimes, including for first time convictions, harms communities and ignores individual circumstances that would allow for rehabilitation.

Advocacy is needed to push legislation across the country to reform mandatory minimums. The harsh federal drug sentences are well-documented, but similar mandatory minimum laws exist through the country. In Baltimore, council members are currently considering stiff mandatory minimum penalties for gun possession. Prosecutors have extraordinary power. Advocates can encourage prosecutors to refrain from charging people with an offense that has a mandatory minimum and instead elect to file a lesser offense with a shorter sentencing range. They can also encourage powerful prosecutors to support the end to harsh mandatory minimum legislation.

Juvenile Life Without Parole

The United States is the only nation that sentences children to life without parole without any possibility of release. Despite the fact that children’s brains are not fully developed – particularly the part regulating decision making and judgement – thousands of children have been sentenced to death behind bars. They cannot buy alcohol or vote, but they can spend a lifetime in an 8 by 10 cell.

Recently, the Supreme Court has recognized that most if not all children can be rehabilitated, pointing to evidence that crime rates plummet as children enter their thirties. It has concluded that Juvenile Life Without Parole should be extremely limited. In response, many states, including Texas and Colorado, have abolished JLWOP at least prospectively, acknowledging that children deserve second chances. Legislation has also come close to succeeding but failed in other places – most recently, in Louisiana. Strong advocates are needed to push these bills over the line.

Advocates are also needed to convince prosecutors to stop seeking JLWOP and give kids a second chance. Michigan, Louisiana, and Pennsylvania all have extraordinary numbers of people facing life without parole for crimes they committed as a kid. Prosecutors should be encouraged to do the right thing and give these individuals, many of whom have already served upwards of thirty years, a second chance at life.

Clean Slate Legislation and Advocacy

A conviction or arrest of any kind can be one of the greatest barriers to a formerly incarcerated person’s effective reentry into society. An employer runs a background check, finds he has a marijuana or a robbery charge, and won’t hire him. These leads to unemployment and often, to more crime.

Legislation is pending in Pennsylvania to automate what is generally an extremely difficult expungement process, making it easy for people with older, minor offenses to get their records sealed. Records will automatically be sealed within two months of a person’s eligibility. Athletes and others can support this legislation by writing op-eds, speaking to legislators privately or in hearings, or even tweeting about it and attending town halls. In other jurisdictions, athletes can encourage their community to demand similar litigation.
 
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tl;dr
 
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The Buffalo Bills are very aware of others feelings. That's why we never beat anyone. Don't want anyone to feel sad.
 
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Who is the nfl marketed too? Are they expecting millennials to pick up the bill? Rednecks (4 vanster) are not with this bull**** and I think they may take their beer money elsewhere
 
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this is wat u get 4 watching coliseum during baseball season u freedom hating pro-foozeball terrorists
 
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Cliffs. We are football players. We know how to fix the criminal justice system. Listen to us or we will make you suffer
 
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Yeah, I'm done with the NFL
 
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These people are so stupid they have no idea who funds their paychecks
 
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heres what i gathered from that:

1. black people and poor people have it worse because they are black and/or poor (and not because of their statistically drastically lower IQ)

2. police should stop arresting black and poor people because it's not fair (despite due process being pretty crucial to our society)

3. ultra-rich megastar football players are in a great position to whine about it (but not actually give up their multi-million dollar salaries to help)

4. the NFL should pay for all of the completely insane **** these ****in upjumped apes want implemented legally - despite having no legal background to demand these changes and most importantly, still keeping their multi-million dollar contracts

5. gibs me dat
 
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in case you missed it.. here are some early results.

Team of 8-year-olds kneels during anthem to support St. Louis protests

You will never convince me that this was 8 year old children's idea. Never
 
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football players never break the law
 
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TLDR and don't care I only watch what's happening from kickoff to the end of the final play, everything else is just noise. I accept that the league is full of douch bags.
 
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Cliffs. We are football players. We know how to fix the criminal justice system. Listen to us or we will make you suffer
nobody knows prison and being arrested better than NFL players

this is a rock fact
 
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heres what i gathered from that:

1. black people and poor people have it worse because they are black and/or poor (and not because of their statistically drastically lower IQ)

2. police should stop arresting black and poor people because it's not fair (despite due process being pretty crucial to our society)

3. ultra-rich megastar football players are in a great position to whine about it (but not actually give up their multi-million dollar salaries to help)

4. the NFL should pay for all of the completely insane **** these ****in upjumped apes want implemented legally - despite having no legal background to demand these changes and most importantly, still keeping their multi-million dollar contracts

5. gibs me dat
nailed all of it

just like rome this is what happens to end game cakes and circuses

i mean john oliver might be one of the biggest pieces of smug condescending **** on this planet........but he completely nailed what the NFL is doing with stadiums and our tax money (on top of your great list)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcwJt4bcnXs

i can't support any of this anymore.......it has to collapse

that or put colin kaepernick and jerry jones back into LA Colosseum for a final death match
 
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These people are so stupid they have no idea who funds their paychecks
to be fair hollywood doesn't either

and i see them as being much higher IQ than most ball sport players

both have utter contempt for the average american who pays them those millions
 
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LOL. You know, i've been telling my friends whom I watch football with on a weekly basis that I thought the "protests" were ****ing dumb and accomplished nothing. I stated why don't these people engage with the local state governments and law enforcement agencies to open up a dialogue about these issues of concern. That was the only way to make a difference. Sitting or kneeling during the anthem doesn't do jack ****.

Then I saw this post and thought to myself "wow, they finally figured it out". And they had me believing in them and supporting them, right up until I read this:

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To be clear, we are asking for your support. We appreciate your acknowledgment on the call regarding the clear distinction between support and permission. For us, support means: bear all or part of the weight of; hold up; give assistance to, especially financially;
****. OFF.
 
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What LGBR said and even then "It's Not Enough."

That's the problem similar to what happened at Mizzou. Come in there with a laundry list of demands that are impossible to meet. It also happened when some people took hostages at NYU.

It's like they're saying, "We're Victims!!!! Hand over all control, money, and let us do anything we want."
 
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it just goes to prove that even when you pay some nig nog 20 million a year

or 400 consecutive years worth of their average fans salary

some low iq neanderthal, with no impulse control, a highly concussed cerebral cortex, nagging to you about "it still isn't nearly enough"

how it will never be enough.........even after they are 100% of the players, the coaches, the owners, and the commissioners.

if nothing else it proves that societally nothing will ever be enough there either

and that is the real social justice message they have been sending
 
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I have a solution to the soon to be empty NFL stadiums, bring back the Roman games and feed these over paid ******s to the lions.

I guarantee full capacity.
 
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detroit lions might finally be worth watching again

especially against them Cleveland browns

 
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