A group of kindhearted basketball players took a knee as a funeral procession passed through their Louisiana neighborhood.

Sisters Lynn Bienvenu and Johannah Stroud were in Washington Parish attending the funeral of their cousin, Velma Kay Crowe, when they saw the boys stop their pickup game outside Franklinton Junior High School and drop to their knees to show support to the family.

The sisters did not want the moment to pass without allowing others to witness, so they snapped a quick photo and shared it on social media.

"They took a knee not out of disrespect, but out of honor," Bienvenu wrote in her post. "There was not an adult in sight to tell them to stop playing."


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