He posted it Wednesday, before the cops were murdered in Dallas on Thursday.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Browns running back Isaiah Crowell plans to apologize Monday for posting a drawing of a police officer having his throat slashed on Instagram, a league source told cleveland.com.
The person slashing the officer's throat is wearing a black jacket and hood with is face covered. He's wearing black gloves, has an ankh pendent around his neck and an American flag backpack on. Blood is spurting out of the officer's neck and mouth, which is covered by the murderer's hand.
Crowell's caption read, "They give police all types of weapons and they continually choose to kill us….#Weak."
The post, which received 33 likes, was quickly taken down from his account, but was screenshotted and circulated on social media.
Crowell posted the drawing after white police officers fatally shot two black men last week, one in Minnesota and one in Louisiana. But it went up before five police officers were slain in Dallas on Thursday during a protest of the two shootings, the source said.
Here is Crowell's statement:
Sorry, don't believe you, when you post something like that, you're only apologizing now because it's coming back to bite you in the ass and you're concerned about your career.
You're not really changing the deep-seeded hatred that made you post it in the first place. That image was being used as a rallying cry to do violence to police officers and you spread it with exactly that thought in mind.