Former Major League Baseball player Dale Murphy said in a Twitter thread Sunday night that one of his sons was shot in the eye with a rubber bullet by a police officer during a peaceful protest in Denver.
Murphy added that “countless others have also experienced this use of excessive police force while trying to have their voices heard.”
Murphy didn’t make clear which of his seven sons was shot, but the two-time National League Most Valuable Player said his son was wearing goggles he had been given by a stranger and that another stranger drove him to the emergency room.
Murphy used the incident as an opportunity to address racism and police brutality in the United States.
Murphy added a drawing his son Tyson created of George Floyd, a black man who died after he was pinned at the neck by a white Minneapolis police officer last week.