Athletes making a difference
Athletes making a difference
Video Transcript
- Meet NFL punter Marquette King. He lives here in the valley. This morning, he put out on social media, he was heading Downtown at 10:00 AM with trash bags and gloves to help clean up the city. He encouraged others to come help him.
MARQUETTE KING: There's a lot of division, and I'm all about peace and love. And that's what I want my message to be.
- Give me the spray can. Give me the spray can.
- Hey, look, I ain't doing nothing.
- Give me the spray can.
- That's not the way, man.
- Give me the spray can.
- I ain't doing nothing, fool.
- Give me the spray can.
- Here, fool.
TRAE YOUNG: I just think it's important that we all stick together, and we stand up for what's right. And it's not just going to take just me. It's not just going to take just you. It's all of us coming together and doing this as a collective unit. And I feel like justice will be served, and changes will be made.
- Chuck Liddell, he is a former UFC fight, and we what he did, he tells us and this person here, is that he was breaking up fights. He was going into Huntington Beach, and you here the escalation, the tension, the anger, and then, also, the deescalastion. He tells us that his intention was to go down and to talk to people, who were defending their businesses, protesting peacefully, and just trying to keep the peace.