Mark Davis apologizes for the Raiders tweet.
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“Let me say this right off the bat: I was not aware of that,” Davis said Tuesday. “Absolutely not. I had no idea of that. That’s a situation that I was not aware of. I can see where there could be some negativity towards what I said based on that.”
Davis said that he got the inspiration from Floyd’s brother, Philonise, who told reporters after Chauvin’s guilty verdict, “Today, we are able to breathe again.”
“I took it from him saying that, and that’s exactly what my feelings were,” Davis said. “I don’t know who it offended. Obviously, if those T-shirts are out there and they thought that that’s what I was referring to, that’s a very big misconception and I made a huge mistake in that regard.
“I wasn’t watching the talking heads; I was listening to the (Floyd) family. And I was trying to take my lead from them. But if that’s what the cops are wearing then, really, it is a bad statement.”
Davis said he was “deeply, deeply disappointed” if he offended the Floyd family. He referred to Chauvin as a “murderer.” He added that he’d like to speak to the family in order to clarify that his statement was meant to support them and made it clear that he didn’t have any problem with the verdict in Chauvin’s trial. However, Davis said he would not delete the tweet, which was still pinned to the Raiders Twitter account when this article was published.
“I will not delete it,” Davis said. “I could unpin it and let it run its course. It’s already out there. That’s the risk you take any time you put anything on Twitter: It’s out there for life. Because people are retweeting it and keeping it and doing all that stuff with it. … I rarely, rarely post stuff, but I’m not into erasing something. It’s not an apology. I’m not embarrassed by what I said, but I did learn something now. So, I learned something. I learned that cops were wearing T-shirts saying that. And that’s a negative.”