Chargers' Lynn looking for more than statement

The Los Angeles Chargers’ Anthony Lynn wants to do more than make a statement.

Lynn — one of four non-white coaches in the NFL — is feeling frozen by last week’s death of George Floyd in Minneapolis while in police custody and the ensuing protests that have swept across the United States, telling the Los Angeles Times that he isn’t sure what the next step is, though.

“I haven’t done anything to make this a better place for my son,” Lynn told the newspaper on Monday. “I remember having the talk with him when he was 16 about how to handle police, and then at age 30, I called him up and just had the talk with him again because I’m so scared. I want to do something, but to be honest with you, I don’t know what that is.”

Lynn expressed his shock at the death of Floyd, who died May 25 after police offer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes. But the Chargers coach said he was more dismayed by the three police officers who did not intervene.