Former NFL punter Chris Cruwe was arrested Tuesday for blocking a rally in Huntington Beach, California, according to the city’s arrest log. The incident occurred at a city council meeting.
Kruwe, 43, protests the city’s approval of public library plaques designed to use the word to spell “Maga,” an acronym for President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great” slogan as acronym. I was doing it.
A video from the council meeting shows the former Minnesota Viking Punter launches a protest by reading a prepared statement called the Maga “explicitly the Nazi movement.” Kluwe continues saying that he will be engaged in “peaceful civil disobedience”, where he leaves his place for lectures and approaches the bench of city council members.
Police immediately took the former NFL player into custody using handcuffs and literally carried him out of the room.
Here is Kluwe’s complete statement:
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“Maga supports trying to erase trans people from existence.Maga represents resection and racism.Maga represents censorship and book ban.Maga is a plane crashed. It represents firing an air traffic controller while in the event. Arsenal represents firing a veteran veteran funding for education, including children with disabilities.
“Maga is very corrupt, undoubtedly anti-democratic, and most importantly, Maga is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced sw with a red hat, but that’s what That one.”
Kluwe told the Orange County Register that he was taken into custody for four hours before being released.
Kluwe played in the NFL for eight years between 2005 and 2012. He began his career as an undrafted free agent for the Seattle Seahawks in 2005 before the Vikings claimed him with exemptions at the end of training camp.
He also competed for the Raiders punter job in 2013, but ultimately did not create a team. Kluwe announced his retirement from football in a 2014 interview with USA Today Sports. He said he believed in his honest views at the time, including supporting same-sex marriages, and criticism of past coaches would prevent the team from signing him.