Mon Jul 31, 2023 – 6:14 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – California law allows a longtime sportscaster fired for tweeting “All Lives Matter” to sue his former employer, a federal judge ruled.
In 2020, KHTK Sports fired Grant Napear, who had been the TV announcer for the NBA’s Sacramento Kings since 1988, for tweeting “All Lives Matter … Every Single One!” amid the Black Lives Matter protests and riots triggered by the death of a black Minneapolis criminal during a police altercation.
The BLM movement was predicated on a narrative that the incident was not an isolated case of police misconduct but a symptom of institutionalized bigotry and murderous intent in American law enforcement, which supposedly did not value black lives. Opponents adopted “all lives matter” as a counter-slogan, which BLM and its left-wing allies quickly branded as racist.
Napear apologized at the time, claiming he “had no idea” the phrase “was counter to what BLM is trying to get across.” But KHTK’s parent company, Bonneville International, fired him, claiming his comments “do not reflect” its “views or values” and their timing “was particularly insensitive.”
In October 2021, Napear filed a wrongful termination suit against Bonneville, seeking
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