After scoring his team’s opening goal in a 5-1 win over DC United on Sunday, the 32-year-old ran over to an on-field TV microphone and shouted, “Hey Congress, do something now. End gun violence. Let’s go!”
The moment was captured on Fox Sports:
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Bedoya is from Weston, Fla., close to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and staff members were killed in a mass shooting on Feb. 14, 2018.
Before Sunday’s game, he shared a tweet about gun policy in the United States:
After the game, he added this:
At least 29 people were killed over the weekend in separate mass shootings in Texas and Ohio.
There have been more mass shootings than days in 2019, according to CBS News:
