Before taking the knee, many athletes chose to show other forms of protests:
At the Mexico Olympics in 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos gave the black power salute on the medal rostrum:
LeBron James and other basketball players wore T-shirts with the words “I can’t breathe” written on them in 2014, echoing the last words of Eric Garner, who died after being restrained by police officers in New York.
