NFL quarterback-turned-activist Colin Kaepernick was verbally harassed Wednesday outside New York City’s Madison Square Garden.

Kaepernick was leaving the New York Knicks-Memphis Grizzlies game with director Spike Lee when the heckling began, according to a report.

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