MLB player who took a knee says Trump-supporting waiter refused to serve him

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Bruce Maxwell, right, became the first MLB player to take a knee in September. (Getty Images)

Last month Oakland Athletics rookie catcher Bruce Maxwell became the first Major League Baseball player to take a knee during the National Anthem. Now that he’s back home in Alabama, he’s seeing first-hand how much some people are upset with him for that.

Maxwell, 26, told TMZ Sports that he’d been home in Harvest, Ala., for all of four hours when a waiter at a local restaurant refused to serve him because he chose to take a knee in pursuit of racial equality and in protest of President Donald Trump calling kneeling NFL players “sons of bitches.” Maxwell says he was out to eat with a friend from high school who is now a city councilman.

Maxwell described the encounter with the waiter to TMZ thusly:

“He was like, ‘You’re the guy who took the knee? I voted for Trump and I stand for everything he stands for.'”
As a reminder: Maxwell comes from a military family and considers himself very patriotic. When he took a knee, he also put his hand over his heart. The next day he told Yahoo Sports’ Jeff Passan: “This is beyond race. This is about our president speaking out in a vulgar, negative way against people exercising their rights in a peaceful manner. It’s about mankind.”

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[Takket]

1. this story sounds familiar........

[mercuryblues]

2. Well that trump supporting waiter

needs to haul his ass to a recruiting office. Someone has to fight in trump's war. He should be 1st in line, being a supporter and all.

[Va Lefty]

4. He'll be 1st in line alright

for an appearance on fox and friends

[CatMor]

3. The waiter stands for everything trump stands for...

In other words he's a racist.

[rurallib]

5. he stayed at the restaurant and had another server

I believe I would have left and made sure the manager knew why and let the manager know I would never be back.

[blueinredohio]

6. If he was only a waiter Maxwell should have contacted the owner