Sean Taylor - RIP UPDATED

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I hope the best for Taylor, but it is surprising about the number of black athletes getting held up in the last couple of years. I don't think I'll begrudge a guy for having an entourage again. I'm hoping a big sports weekly reports on how these attacks have affected athletes.

 

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Just one man's opinion, but whomever broke in had to know Taylor was going to be home and had a real problem with him. Shot in the groin? Someone was trying to make a very real, very violent point.

 

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You thinking about this too much like its Pulp Ficiton, hb. In altercations, bullets fly fast and furious and hit people in odd places. The police report says one of the bullets his the wall and the other hit Taylor in the leg. The perp might have been running away from the giant NFL football player weilding a machette and firing in a panic. It's pretty unlikely he walked into the house and shot Taylor in the groin to make a point. It's more likely Taylor came down the stairs, surprised the guy, and got hit by panic fire. Guns are hard to aim when you're scared.

Here is the comment from his lawyer, describing how he got hit:

Happened much too fast, from that description, to be any kind of "hit meant to make a point."

 

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Having lots of experience with crime, most burglars don't want anyone home. They usually have drug problems and just want stuff they can sell for drug money. They are rarely armed.

Those that break in with weapons, what is now called a home invasion, are looking for something specific. Something very valuable that the home owner has probably hidden, maybe in a safe, or they want to abduct the home owner for their ATM pin number to get a larger amount of cash.

The home invasion is as person specific as it is property specific. Odds are, from my many years experience, who ever broke into Taylors home, knew who he was.

 

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I'm glad you understand the issues.

Thank God there are two of you.

 

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Bill Belichick has listed him as questionable due to a shoulder injury.

(Too soon?)

 

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Hours and hours cooped in a plane ... does not give you the energy to scroll through five pages. That and residual nausea. However, I'm caught up and it's comforting to see history repeating itself in this thread, thanks to the race debate. I can always come home ...

 

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Marvez says he is out of the coma.

 

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Forgive me for actually thinking an earnest, journalistic discussion could actually take place without personal, immature attacks.

In most newsrooms, there are always discussions to make sure that black and white victims are portrayed fairly and equally. Countless media studies have been done about this disparity. A black kid gets shot, it's on 11B. A white kid gets shot, it's 1A. That sort of thing.

My point in bringing up the race element was not to blame anyone, or pull the straw man routine. But as has been noted, we have seen more than a few instances of black athletes being victims of crimes. I wondered aloud -- or one this board -- how much Sean Taylor's trouble with the law would affect not only how this troublesome incident is viewed, but how it's being reported. For the record, I am not saying that his past skirmishes should not be reported.

I pointed out the Eddy Curry, Antoine Walker and Paul Pierce incidents because it's my OPINION -- I'm allowed to have one, right? -- that these incidents were somewhat glossed over because African-Americans are portrayed/framed/(enter the appropriate word) by mass media as perpetrators of crimes more than victims. Simon pointed out how there is barely any coverage when minority women are missing. That only reinforces my original point. When the images scattered across CNN and local news media mostly are of black folks committing crimes, it desensitizes the masses to when they are victims.

I'm not blaming anything on The Man. Sorry for trying to add to a professional discussion. Let's get back to hitting below the belt.

 

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Rolf Benirschke

 

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Mass media is still The Man.

 

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One version of the story said a kitchen knife had been left on Taylor's bed in the previous break-in. That sounds like somebody trying to send a message.