WATCH: Sixers Head Coach Doc Rivers Condemns Riots Outside US Capitol In Washington, D.C.

CBS Philadelphia

January 07, 2021

PHILADELPHIA (CBS/AP) — The Sixers head coach Doc Rivers is speaking out against the violence that took place at the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. Rivers used his voice to condemn the riots in Washington much in the same way he denounced racial injustice in the NBA bubble as teams grappled with how to deal with issues far more important than basketball.

Rivers again decried the riotous mob Wednesday in Washington, though he cautioned, “democracy will prevail.”

“I’ll say it because I don’t think a lot of people want to: Could you imagine today if those were all Black people storming the Capitol and what would have happened,” Rivers asked. “That to me is a picture worth a thousand words for all of us to see. It’s something for us to reckon with, again, no police dogs turned on people, no billy clubs hitting people. People peacefully being escorted out of the Capitol. It shows you can disperse a crowd peacefully, I guess.”

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