ESPN's Howard Bryant (allegedly) pulls a Jay Mariotti

[Dick Whitman]

His wife was informed that she had the right to remain silent, and she elected to utilize that right. I would have, as well, even if I was completely innocent. Her "dodging" means nothing.

"Lawyer." - D'Angelo Barksdale

Didn't work out so well for D'Angelo, did it?

Almost did.

 

[Joe Williams]

What sticks with me is the resisting arrest. That's what makes me think that he was so mad that something might have happened.

Or mad because nothing happened. I think it can cut either way.

One possible interpretation: Black citizen reacts with anger stemming from HIS prejudice (in all the "preconceived notions" of its definition) toward police intervention in an incident that appeared more suspicious to onlookers than to participants.

Sounds like another Beer Summit might be in order.

 

[Ace]

His wife was informed that she had the right to remain silent, and she elected to utilize that right. I would have, as well, even if I was completely innocent. Her "dodging" means nothing.

"Lawyer." - D'Angelo Barksdale

Didn't work out so well for D'Angelo, did it?

I don't know the guy... but I have to say, I'm a little uncomfortable that people on this site are so quick to decide this has to be a racist cop and five racist witnesses... because people on this site know and like the guy. It this were an athlete or a writer people didn't like, we'd have ten pages of gleeful prison rape jokes.

I am surprised how quick some people are to accept charges as facts when the cops never even saw him lay a hand on his wife.

 

[YGBFKM]

What about the witnesses?

 

[RickStain]

Eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable. (of course, so are denials from people accused of crimes).

 

[dooley_womack1]

I alluded to that earlier. Prosecutions go on all the time without the abused assisting in the process.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Anyone who knows much about domestic violence knows that victims of abuse very frequently withdraw their allegations or try to say nothing really happened. That's because they are used to being victimized and feel guilty that they are getting their husband/boyfriend in trouble. Or they are afraid that by following through on the complaint, the husband/boyfriend will beat them up worse or even kill them. So that fact that his wife said, no everything's fine, doesn't mean much.

Remarkably, up until the last couple decades, police were mostly advised, even officially in police handbooks and such, not to involve themselves in these "private" situations - restore order and leave the parties to sort it out themselves. I'll dig up some more concrete facts and numbers about it later today. It's eye-popping.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

It's difficult to know which was was better, that (didn't work too well for Nicole Brown Simpson) or this way where everybody's guilt is presumed.

 

[Dick Whitman]

It's difficult to know which was was better, that (didn't work too well for Nicole Brown Simpson) or this way where everybody's guilt is presumed.

I've got to imagine that this is what really, really swung it in the other direction.

 

[Susan Slusser]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=6599191

 

[Mizzougrad96]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=6599191

Glad he was declared innocent. I hope he actually is.

I've always thought Howard was a good guy. I'm glad he didn't pish away a very good career, although some of the damage will never go away.

 

[Pancamo]

When is the civil lawsuit against the police filed?