Lane Kiffin, Mississippi player explain why team marched in protest

OXFORD, Miss. — Don’t think of Mississippi’s player march last week to protest police brutality as an ending to the story. It’s more of a statement of action.

The Ole Miss football team didn’t practice last Friday. A practice was scheduled. But it didn’t happen. Rather, players and coaches marched from campus to downtown Oxford in solidarity with the other national protests related to the police shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin where an officer shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back. 

As linebacker MoMo Sanogo explained, the march was a spontaneous reaction to the way players were feeling on Monday.

“Coach could feel that the guys had a lot on their minds and were feeling some type of way,” Sanogo said. “He asked us the night before, the leadership council, what we want to do. ‘Do you want to play or practice? I support you 100%.’ We felt that we needed to play.

“We got up here and some guys just seemed really affected. We called a team meeting. Coach was behind us. We were like ‘Hey, what do we want to do?’ We decided as a team that we wanted to go march toward downtown Oxford.”

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