PNJ staff reports

Gulf Breeze High product and Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin has been one of the most well-spoken voices in the NFL's year-long demonstrations during the national anthem — part of a movement started by former San Franciso 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to raise awareness toward a myriad of issues, including police brutality toward minorities

Wednesday night on a CNN Town Hall hosted by Anderson Cooper - "Patriotism, The Players and The President," Baldwin, who has degrees from Stanford in business and engineering, dropped a figurative mic with a little bit of U.S. history knowledge.

Baldwin fact-checked Reverend Michael Faulkner (go to 40:00 mark of the video) on the start of the Revolutionary War, which Faulkner said started with the Boston Tea Party.

"First and foremost, I want to go back to back to something the Reverend said earlier. He said the Boston Tea Party got this kicked off. I'm sorry, sir, you're incorrect," said Baldwin, who appeared remotely with teammate Michael Bennett. "That was the Boston Massacre that happened three years prior to that when nine British police officers —armed police officers — gunned down some unarmed Americans. That's where this got kicked off."

Baldwin, who went undrafted out of college, has been in the NFL since 2011 and has won a Super Bowl, led the NFL in receiving touchdowns in 2015 and made the Pro Bowl in 2016.