The St. Louis Rams and the NFL refused to apologize for the Rams' "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" gesture in a move they said showed support for the town of Ferguson, Mo., in response to the shooting tragedy of Michael Brown.
So a St. Louis bar and grill issued its own gesture late Sunday night by dropping their support for the Rams.
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Riverfronttimes.com reported that Time Out Bar & Grill announced on its Facebook page that it no longer will be a Rams-affiliated bar.
The statement on the Time Out Facebook page read:
"Due to the bone headed 'hands up, don't shoot' act by the number of Rams players on the Sunday game the Time Out Bar & Grill will no longer support the St Louis Rams, so we will no longer have Happy hours for the Rams games and all signs and pictures will be off the walls... We have to stand up to thugs who destroy our community and burn down local businesses, and boycott the other thugs/organizations who support them..."
The post received more than 30,500 likes, nearly 7,500 shares and 5,700 comments as of early Tuesday morning.
The bar and grill then posted eight hours later that it now will now support the Kansas City Chiefs and transfer all the Happy-Hour specials affiliated with the Rams' game times over to the Chiefs' game times.
After the Rams' gesture - involving wide receivers Kenny Britt, Tavon Austin, Stedman Bailey, Chris Givens and tight end Jared Cook before Sunday's game against the Oakland Raiders - the St. Louis Police Officers Association issued a statement that condemned the act and asked that the NFL and the team to discipline the players for their actions.
As the riverfronttimes.com reported in another article, the SLPOA called the Rams "hypocrites" in one paragraph:
"(SLPOA Business Manager Jeff) Roorda was incensed that the Rams and the NFL would tolerate such behavior and called it remarkably hypocritical. 'All week long, the Rams and the NFL were on the phone with the St. Louis Police Department asking for assurances that the players and the fans would be kept safe from the violent protesters who had rioted, looted, and burned buildings in Ferguson. Our officers have been working 12 hour shifts for over a week, they had days off including Thanksgiving cancelled so that they could defend this community from those on the streets that perpetuate this myth that Michael Brown was executed by a brother police officer and then, as the players and their fans sit safely in their dome under the watchful protection of hundreds of St. Louis's finest, they take to the turf to call a now-exonerated officer a murderer, that is way out-of-bounds, to put it in football parlance,' Roorda said."
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