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   CROSBY, Texas -- The football coach of a private high school   
   near Houston has thrown two players off the team after one knelt   
   and another raised a fist during the national anthem prior to a   
   game.   
      
   Head coach Ronnie Mitchem told the Houston Chronicle that he had   
   an understanding with his players at Victory and Praise   
   Christian Academy in Crosby that they would not protest during   
   the anthem.   
      
   Mitchem, a former Marine, says he doesn't oppose acts of protest   
   but says doing so during the anthem is offensive to veterans and   
   others.   
      
   After the anthem concluded Friday, he told the two players to   
   remove their uniforms and that they were dismissed from the   
   team, the newspaper reported.   
      
   One player's mother, Rhonda Brady, says she supports the   
   players' actions and considered Mitchem's punishment excessive.   
      
   "I'm definitely going to have a conversation because I don't   
   like the way that that was handled," Brady told the Houston   
   Chronicle. "But I don't want them back on the team. A man with   
   integrity and morals and ethics and who truly lives by that   
   wouldn't have done anything like that."   
      
   She added, "Actions speak louder than words. So, for him to do   
   what he did, that really spoke volumes and I don't want my kids   
   or my nephew to be around a man with no integrity."   
      
   The protests come amidst the ongoing movement in the NFL to   
   protest racial injustice in America. Former San Francisco 49ers   
   quarterback Colin Kaepernick started the kneeling movement last   
   year.   
      
   https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coach-kicks-players-off-team-   
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