Celtics' Jaylen Brown Drove 15 Hours to His Hometown of Atlanta to Lead a Peaceful Protest

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00:00Celtics guard Jalen Brown drove 15 hours to his hometown Saturday to lead a peaceful protest

00:06in Atlanta.

00:07Brown marched with a megaphone while holding a sign that read, I Can't Breathe, a reference

00:11to the death of George Floyd, who died as a white police officer knelt on his neck for

00:15nine minutes in Minneapolis.

00:18Brown streamed part of the march on Instagram Live and posted videos to his social media.

00:23The vice president of the National Basketball Players Association said that being an NBA

00:27player doesn't exclude him from the conversation, adding, quote, First and foremost, I'm a black

00:31man and I'm a member of this community.

00:33We're raising awareness for some of the injustices that we've been seeing.

00:37It's not okay.