https://www.theherdnow.com/content/2023 ... e-playing/
“ . . he drove to a place with a gun that he knew was in the back of his car after receiving a text message from an individual who said ‘I need my joint, just got a faking’… ‘Faking’ means threatened according to the testimony from the detective in this case. . ”
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Now, the Alabama player was already en route to pick up his friend, but Holy Cow! And the gun was used to kill someone. You may have heard that the victim was a 23-year-old single Mom. Now, every human life is equally precious. But in a sense, this does make it more immediately tragic and more obviously tragic.
Alabama basketball should cancel the rest of its season.
But the “dilemma” is that the athlete who drove the car with the gun is a really good athlete. His friend is being charged with murder, and we might call him person B who then handed the gun to person C who actually did the shooting. Young men can make bad decisions, no question. But the fact that this team’s season continues, and they are I think the top-ranked team in the “March Madness” tournament—
We are much too much a sports mad culture.
14 Mar 2023, 11:22 pm
