Falcons' season-long tributes to victims of social injustice

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Falcons' season-long tributes to victims of social injustice

NFL players wore helmet decals and badges to honor victims of systemic racism, victims of police brutality, and social justice heroes. A look at the social justice messages the Atlanta Falcons wore on their helmets during the 2020 NFL season.

Todd Gurley: Janisha Fonville. Fonville, 20, was shot by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg (N.C.) police officer who responded to a call at a Charlotte apartment on Feb. 18, 2015. The officers were found to be justified in the shooting.

Julio Jones: Breonna Taylor. Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency worker, was shot in March 2020 by Louisville officers during a botched drug raid. The shooting and lack of indictments against the officers responsible led to nationwide protests.

Todd Gurley: Breonna Taylor. Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency worker, was shot in March 2020 by Louisville officers during a botched drug raid. The shooting and lack of indictments against the officers responsible led to nationwide protests.

A.J. Terrell: Black Lives Matter.

Luke Stocker: Ahmaud Arbery. Arbery was an unarmed 25-year-old man who was pursued and shot while jogging Feb. 23, 2020, near Brunswick, Ga. Three white residents have been charged.

Brian Hill: End Racism.

Todd Gurley: Botham Jean. Jean, a 26-year-old accountant, was shot and killed in his apartment by an off-duty Dallas Police officer who claimed Jean was an intruder in her apartment in September 2018. The officer was later charged and convicted of murder.

Ricardo Allen: Stop Hate.

Todd Gurley: Cameron Lamb. Lamb, a black man, was shot in December 2019 in his idling pickup truck inside his garage in Kansas City, Mo. The officer was charged with manslaughter.

Todd Gurley: Aiyana Stanley-Jones. Stanley-Jones, 7, was shot and killed during a SWAT raid of her grandmother's Detroit apartment in May 2010. An officer was charged but two prosecutions ended in mistrials.

Isaiah Oliver: Ahmaud Arbery. Arbery was an unarmed 25-year-old man who was pursued and shot while jogging Feb. 23, 2020, near Brunswick, Ga. Three white residents have been charged.

Younghoe Koo: Stop Hate.

Julio Jones: Breonna Taylor. Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency worker, was shot in March 2020 by Louisville officers during a botched drug raid. The shooting and lack of indictments against the officers responsible led to nationwide protests.

LaRoy Reynolds: Joshua Johnson. Johnson, 35, was shot after he allegedly approached an undercover Gulf Coast Task Force deputy in Missouri City, Texas, with a cell phone flashlight and a BB gun.

Todd Gurley: Cornelius Fredricks. Fredericks, a 16-year-old who died in May 2020 while being restrained at a residential facility in Michigan.

Deion Jones: Breonna Taylor. Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency worker, was shot in March 2020 by Louisville officers during a botched drug raid. The shooting and lack of indictments against the officers responsible led to nationwide protests.

Steven Means: Dennis "Ballie" Browning Jr. Browning, Means said, was a childhood friend who was killed in prison.

Todd Gurley: Bettie Jones. Jones was a bystander accidentally shot by a Chicago police officer responding to a domestic disturbance at a neighbor's apartment in 2015.

Matt Ryan: It Takes All of Us.

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Credit: AP

Todd Gurley: Janisha Fonville. Fonville, 20, was shot by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg (N.C.) police officer who responded to a call at a Charlotte apartment on Feb. 18, 2015. The officers were found to be justified in the shooting.

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