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Texans: Clowney costume 'not a shot' at owner

A Houston Texans spokesperson says an orange prison-jumpsuit costume worn by star defensive lineman Jadeveon Clowney was not meant as a jab at team owner Bob McNair.

Amy Palcic, the Texans' senior director of communications, told the Houston Chronicle that Clowney said there "was no hidden meaning behind his Halloween costume."

"He was not taking a 'shot' at anyone," Palcic told the Chronicle on Tuesday. "It was just that -- a costume at a Halloween party."

Clowney posted a video to Instagram that shows him wearing an orange jumpsuit at a Halloween party.

McNair angered Texans players last week after ESPN The Magazine reported that he said, "We can't have the inmates running the prison," during a meeting with other owners and league officials earlier this month.

McNair released two statements last week apologizing for his comments, stressing that he was not referring to players. An owner who was in the meeting told ESPN on Saturday, though, that, given the discussion in the room when McNair made the statement, it would be hard to conclude how he could have been referring to anyone other than players.

Offensive' Colin Kaepernick Costume Lands Police Officer In Hot Water

The police department for the University of Nevada, Reno, has issued an apology after one of its officers was called out for what many called an “offensive” Colin Kaepernick costume.

Kaepernick is the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who began kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial inequality and police brutality. Kaepernick has not found a quarterback job this season after parting ways with the 49ers last year.

Kaepernick attended the University of Nevada in Reno.

The officer, Antonio Gutierrez, dressed as the quarterback and sported a hooked nose and “will stand for food” sign last week. Over the weekend, photos of the officer popped up and spread on social media, prompting an apology from the police department.

“For those who have seen the Halloween costume of one of our officers apparently mocking a citizen who has chosen to take advantage of his constitutional right to protest, I offer my sincere apologies,” said University of Nevada Reno Police Chief Adam Garcia in a statement. “Members of our profession are held to a higher standard and denigrating another — on or off duty — is insensitive for its lack of respect and lack understanding on how others may negatively view their actions and may be impacted.”

The officer will not face disciplinary action, according to Buzzfeed Monday.

“Behavior such as this magnifies unsafe feelings and lack of trust in police, especially when that individual is responsible for the safety of all members of the University, regardless of color, ethnicity, sexual orientation or religion,” continued Garcia in a statement. “At a time when officers should be heightened in their attentiveness to the perception by our community, this act seems extremely out of touch with those sentiments and reflects poorly on all of us.”

The incident comes a month after the department was accused of mishandling a complaint about threatening behavior by one of its officers. In September a black graduate student was pulled over and body camera footage catches the officer saying I'm just going to shoot him if this goes sideways because f--- that.”

The police officer in that case is on leave pending an investigation, according to the Reno Gazette-Journal.