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l Wide receiver Robby Anderson is arrested at a music festival in Miami and charged with felony resisting arrest and obstruction of justice. These charges were dropped in May. l Donahue is charged with DUI in Billings, Montana after being involved in a car wreck. Police found his SUV overturned on the side of the road. He blew a .137 blood-alcohol content level. l Linebacker Darron Lee is accused of assaulting a woman at the Governors Ball Music Festival at Randall's Island after video footage surfaces on Twitter. The NFL investigates the incident and decides not to bring any discipline. No legal charges were filed. l Linebacker Lorenzo Mauldin is charged and arrested with misdemeanor assault after he was accused of punching a man at a nightclub. This case was dropped in November. l Cornerback Rashard Robinson, who the Jets traded for in October 2017, is charged with marijuana possession after police find weed candies in his car. l Anderson is arrested for the second time in less than a year. This time, he's hit with nine charges after a high-speed chase with police, including a felony charge for harm to a public servant of family. Anderson allegedly told a police officer at the scene that he "was going to find (his) wife, f--k her and n-t in her eye." Anderson had all but one of those charges dropped in April. The only remaining one is a reckless driving charge. l Donahue arrested after allegedly causing a wrong-way crash with a jitney bus in the Lincoln Tunnel. l Herndon arrested for DWI.
— to say if I agree or not, but now that it’s a stated rule, you got to abide by it.”
The Jets locked arms as a show of unity during the playing of the anthem last season. Jets CEO Christopher Johnson, a staunch advocate for players’ rights to reform social inequalities in this country, addressed the team last week to reiterate his support for them.
Jenkins plans to do whatever will bond the Jets during the anthem. Locking arms is an option again.
“When I saw Kaepernick take I knee, I thought, ‘Okay,’” Jenkins said. “My dad (who served in the Army) is not bothered by it. I’m not bothered by it. I’m going to choose stand for the anthem because it fills me with pride and joy…. Different people have different viewpoints on it. Trying to find a way to solve it is hard, because there so many different people from different backgrounds.”
“But in terms of finding the right way to do it,” Jenkins said. “I feel that sports teams have the best chance of (finding a resolution) because you have people from so many different backgrounds. You got white guys, black guys, Asian guys, Mexican guys, Arab guys all on one team. You might not like each other (at first), but you learn to like each other. Playing team sports and organized sports helps you understand people better.”
As the anthem debate rages on, Jenkins remains confident that there will be a solution to satisfies all parties. He doesn’t think it will happen overnight though.
“It’s not going to happen this year,” Jenkins said. “It’s going to take time. It’s a new thing. It just happened a year or two ago. It’s going to take some time to find the common ground among players, owners… and everybody.”