CLEVELAND, July 13 (UPI) -- While the Cleveland Browns mull whether or not Isaiah Crowell's apology was sufficient, the city's police union has accepted his latest offering.
Crowell posted then deleted an Instagram post profiling a man slashing the throat of a police officer last week. He wrote: They give police all types of weapons and they continually choose to kill us....#Weak."
He apologized Monday, but the Browns said it was "insufficient." Steven Loomis, the president of Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association, told TMZ that the apology was "store-bought."
Loomis even threatened to pull officers, sheriffs, and state troopers out of First Energy Stadium this season if Crowell didn't "make it right."
So Crowell decided to donate his first game check of the season to the Dallas Fallen Officer Foundation. Crowell's post was made before the Dallas shootings, but after men were killed by police in Louisiana and Minnesota.
"I appreciate the apology and we accept it," Loomis told TMZ. "People are allowed to make mistakes in life. Our problem was that first apology. It wasn't sincere. But Isaiah stepped up to the plate to make a personal apology, and we definitely appreciate his donation to the Fallen Officers Foundation."
"I'm glad we didn't have to go the route of boycotting Browns games. We would not have enjoyed that. We wanted to give Isaiah the opportunity to make things right, and he did."
Crowell's game checks are worth about $35,294, with his salary set at $600,000 this season.
"I would never wish violence on anyone, especially a police officer," Crowell said on Facebook. "I'm sorry to all the Browns fans, all the people who support my career and all the kids out there who look up to me. But most of all, all the good police officers who are out there protecting us every day. By posting that picture, I became part of the problem. And I don't want to be part of the problem, I want to be part of the solution."
"I know this may not change your mind about me, and I can't take the post back. But I'm sorry, and moving forward, I'm committed to being part of the solution."
