{"id":1512495,"date":"2022-06-12T13:04:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T17:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1512495"},"modified":"2022-06-12T13:04:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T17:04:18","slug":"nfl-coach-jack-del-rio-deletes-twitter-account-after-team-fined-him-for-jan-6-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nfl-coach-jack-del-rio-deletes-twitter-account-after-team-fined-him-for-jan-6-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Coach Jack Del Rio Deletes Twitter Account After Team Fined Him For Jan. 6 Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnfl-coach-jack-del-rio-deletes-twitter-account-after-team-fined-him-for-jan-6-remarks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1512495&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/nfl\">NFL<\/a> coach Jack Del Rio, who was fined and forced to apologize last week for saying the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/january-6\">January 6<\/a> riots were not as bad as the 2020 riots over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/george-floyd\">George Floyd<\/a>\u2018s death that caused billions of dollars in damage, deleted his Twitter account Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Del Rio, who had nearly 100,000 followers on the account, shut it down just one day after the Washington Commanders, who employ him as defensive coordinator, fined him $100,000. In comparing the rioting that followed Floyd\u2019s\u00a0death to the January 6 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/capitol-riot\">Capitol riot<\/a>, Del Rio labeled\u00a0the events of January 6 a \u201cdust up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jack Del Rio Twitter update: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JV0VIjFRrQ\">pic.twitter.com\/JV0VIjFRrQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicki Jhabvala (@NickiJhabvala) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickiJhabvala\/status\/1535772805551251456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBusinesses are being burned down, no problem and then we have a dust-up at the Capitol, nothing burned down and we\u2019re gonna make that a major deal,\u201d Del Rio said Wednesday, after he\u00a0was asked about a tweet from earlier in the week where he said he would love to understand the \u201cwhole story\u201d of what happened during the summer of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The former head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars and then Oakland Raiders went on to clarify his comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m being respectful. I just asked a simple question,\u201d he said. \u201cLet\u2019s get right down to it: What did I ask? A simple question. Why are we not looking into [the protests], if we\u2019re going to talk about [the Capitol riot]? Why are we not looking into those things?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Commanders Head Coach Ron Rivera announced the fine Friday, and the team said the proceeds would go to the U.S. Capitol Police Memorial Fund.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Coach Del Rio\u2019s) comments do not reflect the organization\u2019s views and are extremely hurtful to our great community in the DMV,\u201d Rivera commented. \u201cAs we saw (Thursday) night in the (Congress) hearings, what happened on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was an act of domestic terrorism. A group of citizens attempted to overturn the results of a free and fair election, and as a result, lives were lost and the Capitol building was damaged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Del Rio has long been an active Twitter user, often opining on current events in the United States. Earlier this week, lawmakers in Virginia tabled a bill to help fund a new stadium for the team, with one state senator noting Del Rio\u2019s tweet didn\u2019t help things. It was unclear if Del Rio decided to delete his Twitter account or did so on orders from the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFL coach Jack Del Rio, who was fined and forced to apologize last week for saying the January 6 riots were not as bad as the 2020 riots over George Floyd\u2018s death that caused billions of dollars in damage, deleted his Twitter account Saturday. 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