Receiver says Seahawks will stand with interlocked arms

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Seattle Seahawks receiver Doug Baldwin said Saturday that he and his NFL teammates will stand with interlocked arms for Sunday's pre-game US anthem performance. The team's decision not to sit or kneel during "The Star-Spangled Banner" on the 15th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks comes as San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has refused to stand for the anthem before pre-season exhibition games. Kaepernick says he is protesting what he sees as wrongdoings against African American in the United States in the wake of a series of high-profile shootings of black men by law enforcement -- most often white police officers.

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