Sean Taylor - RIP UPDATED

I'm not ready to say that. People can travel easily. DC is within a day or two's drive from Miami, and a straight flight.

That being said, here's my concern raised by earlier posts. The knife was found on his mother's bed? So his mom lives with them? She didn't hear anything? Or is it a bed she had that she had donated? I'm confused...but sometimes it's not that easy to move away from your family. Leaving friends? Easier. But maybe he felt if he left his family would be endangered, because people would hurt them to get to him.

All speculation, just throwing it out there.

 

agreed.

 

I agree with that. But move to the DC area, spring for some top-of-the-line security--which he clearly lacked in Florida--and it's tougher for the past to catch up.

 

According to the accounts I've read, IJAG, police now believe that no one but Taylor, his gf and their daughter were home at the time of the shooting.

But your point stands. I was in the office on Monday and we had a discussion about this: Why not just move to NoVa? Bring the girl and the daughter with you and be done with it. We've got plenty of gated communities here.

An aside: I'm still grieving. I've never dealt with Pedro Taylor or Andy Garcia, but I've seen his teammates pretty often and I feel for them. The Redskins don't have a lot of assholes on their roster, and there are a lot of guys I feel for to have to go through this kind of pain.

 

If someone really wanted him dead, then they would have done it already. I doubt they would take a flight to go off somebody, but I don't know that criminal mentality. The questions will remain, "what if he moved here," "what if he didn't get involved with these people." They will be there until the case is solved and even after. The problem is that it happened and now a family and a community need to recover.

 

I would agree with that as well.
If you're Taylor, you should have the money to spend on a couple of armed security guards - and while I'm not as tough or fearless as the average NFL safety, I sure would have had some extra security after what happened to him last week.
And I do also agree that it's easier for unsavory former members of your circle of friends to catch up with you if you stay in their environment instead of moving into a new one.
I hope some of the next generation of athletes (and this generation) can learn a lesson from what happened to Sean Taylor. RIP.

 

Well, I certainly would rather have a more objective view than his paid representative who has a duty to his client to represent him in a favorable manner.

Whitlock's column is great.

But out here in Prince George's County, Maryland we have about 130 homicides so far this year, about 90% are African American. both victim and perpetrator. And that tracks what has been going on for 15 years.

The shame of what Whitlock wrote should have be written in the Washington Post Metro section, 14 years ago and every few months since then.

 

Column embarrassing faux-sociology / Fenian Bastard

 

Agreed. I'd previously cringed when Whitlock used the "Black KKK" metaphor, thought it didn't quite fit and was too susceptible to inflammatory misinterpretation, and had wished he'd stop using it. He may've changed my mind with this column, it really works here.

 

The "Black KKK" is just as stupid a phrase as it ever was.
Rank talk-show idiocy. Inflammatory gibberish.
If this thing turns out to be a random home invasion, it's worse than that.

 

"Whitlock's roll in society is to provide bromids for racists" He has surpassed expectations in this column/ Fenian Bastard

 

You have to admit two random home invasions in a week would be a remarkable coincidence.