Dunn's mind raced as he dialed up family and friends in his hometown. Dunn felt himself being snatched back to when his mother, a Baton Rouge police officer, was murdered in uniform.“It took me right back to that time,” Dunn said in a phone interview. I felt so many emotions, and my eyes were just glued to the television trying to figure out what was going on.” The killings in Baton Rouge were an exclamation point on weeks of unprecedented bloodshed in America between police and civilians.Bart Starr presented Dunn with the award during the 22nd annual NFL-sanctioned Super Bowl Breakfast, hosted by Athletes in Action, at the University of South Florida Sun Dome in Tampa this morning.The Bart Starr Award, bearing the name of NFL Hall of Famer Bart Starr, honors Starr's lifelong commitment to serving as a positive role model to his family, teammates and community.We look forward to seeing you on [website] frequently.Visit us and sign in to update your profile, receive the latest news and keep up to date with mobile alerts. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your profile.

Dunn also donates time and resources to Athletes for Hope, Boy Scouts and Hurricane Katrina Relief.A Baton Rouge newspaper, the Advocate, printed a story conveying that one of the men convicted of killing my mother, Kevin Brumfield, was recently ruled mentally retarded by U. During his 12-year NFL career, running back Warrick Dunn split his time between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Atlanta Falcons.Click here to return to the page you were visiting.A gunman had shot and killed three police officers, wounding three others. He thought of the dead officers’ anguished families and the children who would now be fatherless.On back-to-back days following the Fourth of July holiday, two black men were killed by white police officers in Baton Rouge and Falcon Heights, Minn.A day later five police officers were ambushed during an otherwise peaceful Black Lives Matter march in Dallas.