Chair Sanjay Bhandari wants
protests at
Premier League gamesLiverpool squad take a knee at Anfield training on MondayThe chairman of Kick It Out has urged every Premier League footballer to protest the killing of George Floyd by
American police by taking a knee when the season resumes this month and has said the
Football Association should not punish players who use their platforms to call for social change.
On a day when Liverpool’s players and coaching staff went down on one knee in the Anfield centre circle to express solidarity with those protesting against Floyd’s death, Sanjay Bhandari told the Guardian there was nothing political about footballers standing against
racism and called on the German FA (DFB) not to sanction Jadon Sancho, Achraf Hakimi, Weston McKennie and Marcus Thuram for leading protests in the Bundesliga against police brutality in the US. The DFB has said it is investigating.