NFL announced today it won't fine the St. Louis Rams players who walked onto the field Sunday night with their hands raised in the now recongnizable "Hands Up, Don't Shoot." 

St. Louis Rams players hold their hands up on Sunday in "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" gesture. (AP Photo/L.G. Patterson)

The five football players made the gesture in solidarity with Mike Brown's family and protestors of the Ferguson Grand Jury's decision not to indicte police officer Darren Wilson.

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The St. Louis Police Officers Association responded with a statement that read in part, "The SLPOA is calling for the players involved to be disciplined and for the Rams and the NFL to deliver a very public apology."

Rams' player Jared Cook said, "I think President Obama said it best: People aren’t coming up with these complaints for no reason. People aren’t saying these things just to make it up," according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 

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