ROME (AP) 鈥 Napoli鈥檚 players took a knee before their Serie A game against Atalanta on Saturday in a public show of support for teammate Juan Jesus.
It came after a ruled that Inter Milan defender Francesco Acerbi will not face sanctions for allegedly racially abusing Jesus, who is Black, in a Serie A match because there wasn鈥檛 enough proof.
The on March 17 was revealed when Jesus told the referee that Acerbi directed a racial slur at him. Acerbi has repeatedly denied he used the offensive word.
An Italian league sporting judge said this week that, while it was clear Acerbi had insulted Jesus, the 鈥渕inimum level of reasonable certainty鈥 had not been reached that it was of a racial nature.
Napoli called the decision 鈥渁stonishing.鈥
Atalanta won Saturday's game 3-0.
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