Don’t destroy your Nikes, NC police say. They have another idea.

Does Colin Kaepernick’s new Nike ad make you want to pull out those pricey Nike sneakers and cut them to bits?

Burn them?

Commit other acts of destruction on anything featuring that iconic swoosh?

Just don’t do it.

Donate, don’t destroy, one North Carolina police department said on Sept. 4.

Hillsborough police are asking people to eschew a “national trend of destroying perfectly good Nike shoes,” according to the department’s Facebook page.

“If your plan is to destroy them, contact the Hillsborough Police Department and we will get them to someone who could use them,” the department wrote. “This is not a political post, just a sensible one.”

The police department used the hashtag “#donatebeforedestruction” to promote its efforts.

To donate your shoes, call Hillsborough police at 919-296-9500.

Nike’s ad features a close-up photo of former NFL quarterback Kaepernick with text that reads, “Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything. #JustDoIt.”

Kaepernick, who began a movement among athletes of kneeling during the national anthem in protest of police brutality against unarmed black people, has been off the field for more than a year.

He recently renewed a “multiyear deal with Nike that makes him a face of the 30th anniversary of the sports apparel company’s ‘Just Do It” campaign,’” Nike told The New York Times on Monday.

This story was originally published September 4, 2018 at 3:14 PM with the headline "Don’t destroy your Nikes, NC police say. They have another idea.."