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07-22-2016, 02:52 AM
WNBA teams fined for wearing black shirts to protest shootings
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On Thursday, the WNBA an**unced they were fining three teams — Indiana Fever, New York Liberty and Phoenix Mercury — over players recently wearing shirts in protest of recent U.S. shootings. The American women's basketball league fined each team $5,000 and each player $500.*
SEE ALSO: WNBA Player Puts on Astonishing Shooting Show (http://mashable.com/2013/05/11/wnba-player-three-pointers/)
The WNBA sent out a memo earlier this week to the teams reminding them of the uniform policy. Minnesota, New York and Dallas players all wore shirts with slogans in remembrance of two men who were shot by police and the five Dallas police ******rs who were killed in an attack on July 7.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/21/wnba-protest-fines/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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On Thursday, the WNBA an**unced they were fining three teams — Indiana Fever, New York Liberty and Phoenix Mercury — over players recently wearing shirts in protest of recent U.S. shootings. The American women's basketball league fined each team $5,000 and each player $500.*
SEE ALSO: WNBA Player Puts on Astonishing Shooting Show (http://mashable.com/2013/05/11/wnba-player-three-pointers/)
The WNBA sent out a memo earlier this week to the teams reminding them of the uniform policy. Minnesota, New York and Dallas players all wore shirts with slogans in remembrance of two men who were shot by police and the five Dallas police ******rs who were killed in an attack on July 7.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/21/wnba-protest-fines/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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