Oakland A’s catcher Bruce Maxwell made news last month, becoming Major League Baseball’s first anthem protester. This month he made news for a disputed charge that a waiter refused to serve him over political differences, and for brandishing a gun in the face of a pizza delivery worker.
The Oakland A’s Bruce Maxwell, the only MLB player to protest the national anthem, was arrested Saturday night on gun charges.
Scottsdale, Arizona, police arrested Oakland A’s catcher Bruce Maxwell early Saturday evening for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon as a result of allegedly pointing a gun at a female food-delivery driver. The cops also charged him for disorderly conduct.
A waiter from an Alabama restaurant has come forward to dispute the claim of Oakland Athletics catcher Bruce Maxwell who made national news on Wednesday saying the waiter refused to serve him because he took a knee during the national anthem.
No stand, no service. That would best describe the account being told by Oakland A’s catcher and anthem protester, Bruce Maxwell. Who claims that a waiter in an Alabama restaurant refused to serve him after the server recognized him as baseball’s sole anthem protester.
I turned on the news… Just in time to see Bruce Maxwell, the catcher for the Oakland Athletics baseball team, fall to his knee for the anthem.
Major League Baseball can no longer claim to be free of any anthem-protesting players. On Saturday night, A’s catcher Bruce Maxwell took a knee during the national anthem.
