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Published 15:49 IST, November 5th 2019

Colin Kaepernick hands out food to homeless in Oakland on his birthday

Colin Kaepernick, who turned 32-years-old on November 3, reportedly celebrated his birthday feeding food and supplies to the homeless in Oakland, California.

Reported by: Akhil Nambiar
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Colin Kaepernick, who turned 32 on November 3, 2019, reportedly celebrated his birthday feeding the homeless in Oakland, California. According to a leading news portal, former National Football League (NFL) quarterback showed up with a food truck for the people living in Oakland’s Tent City. It is a large homeless encampment, Kaepernick paid for every person and who was in need of a meal.

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The former NFL player showed up at the encampment along with his girlfriend Nessa and walked around distributing backpacks filled with snacks, air quality masks, shampoo, socks and other important resources. He made this good deed possible with his own foundation called Know Your Rights Camp. This isn't the first time where Kaepernick was seen helping people on his birthday. Back in 2016, he had hosted the Know Your Rights Camp event. He brought a lot of black and Latino kids together to teach them about social justice and their rights in that event.

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Meanwhile, the NFL star – who has been out of action since a while – had reportedly expressed an active interest in taking up the recently opened vacancies. According to the reports, there are some NFL teams who are in search of successful quarterbacks with the problem of their existing players being injured.

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Kaepernick has not played ever since he opted out of his agreement with San Francisco 49ers in 2016. It was the same year when the NFL star started a protest against the police brutality in the country.

07:40 IST, November 5th 2019