Youth football players kneel during National Anthem
(FOX NEWS) -- A youth football team in Illinois knelt for the National Anthem before one of their games over the weekend in a Colin Kaepernick-inspired protest.
Every player on the 8-and-under Cahokia Quarterback Club football team took part in the protest beforeSunday’s game in Belleville.
“One of the kids asked me if I saw [people] protesting and rioting in St. Louis," Coach Orlando Gooden told Fox 2. "I said yes. I said, ‘Do you know why they are doing it?'"
Coach Gooden said the player responded, "Because black people are getting killed and nobody's going to jail.”
“I felt like it was a good teaching moment for me to circle the team and have a meeting,” Gooden said.