Lewis Hamilton could face FIA investigation over anti-racism T-shirt

Lewis Hamilton could face FIA investigation over anti-racism T-shirt

By Semi Turaga
Tuesday 15/09/2020
FIA looking at Hamilton anti-racism t-shirts at F1Tuscan GP. [Image: autosport.com]

Formula 1 bosses are looking into whether Lewis Hamilton broke rules at the Tuscan Grand Prix by wearing a T-shirt highlighting police brutality.

BBC Sports reports a spokesman for the FIA said the matter was "under active consideration".

He said the FIA was a non-political organisation and was considering if Hamilton's T-shirt broke its statutes.

The T-shirt said: "Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor" - a black woman shot eight times in her Louisville, Kentucky home by US police in March.

Hamilton's shirt, which he wore during the pre-race anti-racism demonstration and on the podium, also said: "Say her name."

It was not immediately clear which statute from governing body the FIA was at issue.

Asked whether the FIA considered the T-shirt to be bearing a political message, the spokesman said: "That's the consideration we are looking into."

Taylor was one of a number of victims of incidents involving police violence in the US whose names have become rallying cries for equality and justice.

Hamilton said after winning the race on Sunday: "I've been wanting to bring awareness to the fact there are people being killed on the street.

"And someone was killed in her own house and they were in the wrong house and those guys are still walking free."

[Source: BBC]

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