Washington Commanders head coach Ron Rivera is fining defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio $100,000 for comments made earlier this week in which he referred to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection as a “dust-up”.
“This morning I met with Coach Del Rio to express how disappointed I am in his comments on Wednesday,” Rivera said in a statement tweeted by the Commanders. “His comments do not reflect the organization’s views and are extremely hurtful to our great community here in the DMV. As we saw last night in the hearings, what happened on the Capitol on January 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.”
— Washington Commanders (@Commanders) June 10, 2022
