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By\u00a0Alex Simon<\/a>,Sports EditorJune 15, 2025 (SFGate.com)<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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On the same day as nationwide protests<\/a> against President Donald Trump and as Los Angeles continues to see massive protests against<\/a> sweeping immigration raids from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Dodgers attempted to stop a Spanish version of the U.S. national anthem from being sung before facing the Giants<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to\u00a0a video posted<\/a>\u00a0on TikTok from singer Vanessa Hernandez, who goes by \u201cNezza\u201d in her professional career, a Dodgers employee attempted to get Hernandez to not sing “El Pendon Estrellado” before Saturday\u2019s game against San Francisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The song is the country\u2019s official Spanish language version of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” In the 1940s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt commissioned the song<\/a> as part of his Good Neighbor Policy<\/a> and “El Pendon Estrellado” was officially declared<\/a> the song in 1945.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in spite of the Dodgers\u2019 attempt to stop her, Hernandez sang “El Pendon Estrellado” anyway on Saturday while wearing a Dominican Republic shirt. She also posted a second TikTok video<\/a> Saturday night explaining her decision, saying she was still \u201cvery shooken up and emotional\u201d about the interaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t think I\u2019d be met with any sort of no,\u201d Hernandez said. \u201cEspecially because we\u2019re in L.A., and with everything happening. I\u2019ve sang the national anthem many times in my life, but today, out of all days, I could not. I just felt like I needed to do it. Para mi gente.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hernandez said her parents are both immigrants, though they both have since become naturalized citizens. She said she \u201ccan\u2019t imagine them being ripped away from me even at this age, let alone as a little kid.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hernandez ended the second video by saying, \u201cSafe to say I\u2019m never allowed in that stadium again.\u201d\u00a0According to The Athletic<\/a>, Hernandez is \u201cnot expected\u201d to be banned from Dodger Stadium and was not asked to leave the venue on Saturday night after the anthem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Dodgers declined to comment to The Athletic about Hernandez\u2019s videos. The team has also not made any public statement about the protests since they began last Friday, which has included Trump sending 4,000 National Guard<\/a> troops and 700 Marines to downtown Los Angeles to guard a 1-square-mile area that includes the Metropolitan Detention Center, a federal prison where immigrants were held and protests erupted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most players on both the Giants and Dodgers have refrained from commenting on what is happening in Los Angeles. But L.A.-born Giants first baseman Dominic Smith has called the raids<\/a> \u201ctraumatizing\u201d and Dodgers utility player Kik\u00e9 Hernandez said he\u2019s \u201csaddened and infuriated\u201d by the raids in an Instagram post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alex Simon is the sports editor for SFGATE. Born and raised in the Bay Area, Alex has been in journalism for years as an editor, reporter and adjunct professor, most recently working at Bay Area News Group. He has degrees from Elon University and Arizona State University. When not at a sporting event, Alex enjoys playing sports and finding a good dive bar, and he loves In-N-Out Burger a bit too much for his own good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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