Photo: Charlotte protesters take a knee like Colin Kaepernick

Morgan Weeks

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Kaepernick began kneeling during the national anthem to silently protest racial injustices and police brutality in America. He's been attacked on social media, he's received death threats and police have threatened to stop protecting him.

According to NBC News, at least 67 people, including 16 African-Americans, have been killed by police officers since Kaepernick began kneeling in August.

One of them was Keith Lamont Scott, an African-American father of seven who, on Tuesday in Charlotte, North Carolina, was shot in an apartment complex parking lot as officers looked for another man named in a warrant they were trying to serve.

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Scott's family said he was sitting in his car reading a book, waiting for his son to come home from school, but Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney, who is also African-American, sees it differently.

Since then, protests have run rampant in Charlotte -– and on Thursday evening, this photo was captured of protesters kneeling in support of Colin Kaepernick.

Kaepernick spoke in response to the death threats he has received this week:

To me, if something like that were to happen, you've proved my point and it will be loud and clear for everyone why it happened, and that would move this movement forward at a greater speed than what it is even now.

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