in Green Bay. Each year, Freedom House helps over 100 families including over 250 children overcome homelessness and move into stable permanent housing and employment. In 2007, he started Kabeer's Freedom House Sack Fund. He pledged, along with his teammates and members of the Green Bay community, $10,000 per sack registered in 2007 to go to his fund. On April 3, 2016, Gbaja-Biamila appeared alongside 2016 Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Scott Walker at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin. On December 17, 2019, Gbaja-Biamila was involved in an incident in which he was nearly arrested. His two friends were arrested during an incident at Assembly of God Church in Green Bay on Dec 17 during a Christmas pageant put on by the private Providence Academy. Jordan Salmi and Ryan Desmith attended the pageant and triggered a trespassing complaint since they do not have children at the school. When they were arrested, they reportedly had concealed weapons on them without permits. The Green Bay Press-Gazette quoted Gbaha-Biamila saying “They got my sons — my property — doing pagan worship, and I told them I forbid it, and they dishonor me and say it’s OK for my sons to dishonor their father.” He added, “They used the sons, the children, to oppress the man, and the woman rules over them, so that the man walks in error.” References 1977 births Living people American football defensive ends African-American players of American football American Christians Players of American football from Los Angeles San Diego State Aztecs football players Green Bay Packers players National Conference Pro Bowl players American sportspeople of Nigerian descent American people of Yoruba descent Yoruba sportspeople American former Muslims Converts to Protestantism from Islam American twins Wisconsin Republicans Crenshaw High School alumni 21st-century African-American sportspeople 20th-century African-American sportspeople Ed Block Courage Award recipients