Costumed Protester Runs Onto Field During Lions-Bears Game

A costumed protester took to the field during the Lions-Bears game yesterday, wearing a gorilla suit with a shirt over it that read “All Lives Matter.”

Recently there has been a growing number of people at sporting events who have been peacefully protesting in a different direction, towards the “Black Lives Matter” movement. In these cases, starting with Colin Kapaernick and snowballing from there, both players and spectators had taken to kneeling during the national anthem to show solidarity for those who many believe have been subject to unnecessary violence and death at the hands of the police. Today’s protester, while not only going in a different direction of beliefs, also went in a different direction of showing what he felt. Rather than quietly kneeling, the video taken shows that he ran onto the field during a television timeout in the fourth quarter. He evaded capture from security for a few moments before falling and being buried under his pursuers.

While the man’s shirt read that “All Lives Matter”, it seems that perhaps attention might have mattered a bit more to him than his message, considering he took the time to get a costume. According to the Chicago Times, Bear players noticed the costumed man but not the shirt. Any political statement he may have been trying to make seems to have been far outweighed by the ridiculous way that he tried to present it. He has since been arrested for the disturbance. You can watch the video taken by a fan of the incident below.

A guy dressed as a gorilla wearing an “all lives matter” shirt just ran onto the field at the Bears game pic.twitter.com/QJLfuS1b1U

— Nik Gaur (@Gaur_Nik) October 2, 2016