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The Union County, Arkansas, sheriff's office has been accused of shaming the people they arrest by forcing them to wear a Nike shirt in their goblet.
Columnist Shaun King shared the photos on Twitter on Wednesday and claimed the waterfall was meant to make fun of Colin Kaepernick and his Nike ad campaign.
The sheriff of Union County, Arkansas, puts Nike t-shirts on the people they stop and wears them during the mugshots.
The source says it's for making fun of Nike and Colin Kaepernick. Repugnant. pic.twitter.com/9z9Nw9hxuF
– Shaun King (@ shampoo) October 11, 2018
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The ministry denied the allegation.
"We are not and will not be influenced by the ongoing political and social debates in the media," sheriff Ricky Roberts wrote in a statement released on Thursday. "This shirt is not only used now, but also for several months, and we have taken steps to rectify this problem so that it does not happen again."
Roberts told Little Rock, Arkansas, on KLRT television, that the shirts were made available to the suspects who were "unaddressed" at the time of their arrest.
Less than an hour after King's tweet, the sheriff's office removed all the photos of inmates from his website.
Nike's decision to use Kaepernick as the face of its latest ad campaign sparked anger and celebration.
The quarterback has not played in the NFL since the 2016 season, when he began to kneel during the national anthem to raise public awareness of police brutality against African Americans. and other racial injustices.
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