VIDEO: Cleveland Police Officers Play Football With Kids; This Is How We Move Forward

Normally the articles on our website are focused on what happens “on the field,” but anyone in this country, sports fan or otherwise, is aware of the controversy that’s been going on with NFL players protesting police brutality and discrimination towards African-Americans.

Whether a person agrees with Colin Kaepernick or not, the reality is that unless there is action behind the statements being made, the effort is all in vain.

Kaepernick’s goal was to spark a conversation, in hopes of igniting change and he succeeded at that.

Players around the league have joined in his protest. He’s also putting action behind his words, donating portions of his salary to charities.

Whether you agree or disagree with his protest, it has made an impact.

With all of that being said, it’s stuff like what two police officers in Cleveland did over the weekend of September 11, that will make the biggest difference.

Two officers, known only as Mike and Tim, took time out of their day to play football with kids in Cleveland.

The mother of the children, Vanessa, decided to share the experience on Facebook and wrote:

“So I’m over my parents house today by the 4th district and I looked out the window and seen two officers approaching the kids. I ran out to see what happen and the officers said “we just came to play some football”. They introduced themselves very respectfully and spend some time with the kids talking about sports, school and push ups lol.

I am happy and thankful that my kids were able to see officers in a positive light with everything that is going on in the world today. My son wanted to take a pic with officer Mike “flexing” lol. Thank you for taking time out to play some football with the kids Officer Mike and Tim!!! Please tag these officers if you know them.”

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Stuff like this is how we move forward. Hopefully more officers take time to be involved in the community and hopefully more residents don’t pre-judge police officers and assume they have to be afraid or defensive.

This isn’t exactly a sports-related story, but it’s another example of how sports can play a part of the bigger issues that matter in life.

Shout out to Officers Mike and Tim. It’s little things like that, which make a big difference, one football game at a time.