The Las Vegas Police Department will recommend that Adam "Pacman" Jones be charged with a felony in connection with the shooting over NBA All-Star weekend that resulted in a man being paralyzed.Jones, 23, a cornerback for the Tennessee Titans, would face a felony charge of coercion and misdemeanor threat and battery charges stemming from the 5 a.m. shooting at the club, called Minxx, police Lt. George Castro said.
It's the latest case of legal trouble for Jones, who has reportedly had 10 encounters with police in his brief NFL career. It's also another sign that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell might decide to send a message by giving Jones a suspension of as long as a full year.
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What is wrong with this guy? 10 encounters off the field? Beating a woman's head in?
Tsk...tsk....hope it sticks. That's what I think. I'm fed up with the bulk of the NFL punks that call themselves professionals. I have a home in Vegas and although we like your sports dollars, we like when the 'professional' sports 'stars' go home and get back to raking in their fans money for nothing but a bad attitude and an even worse role model for the boys following in their footsteps. Hormone growth factor, sex, street drugs and violence.......did I leave anything out? Certainly not worth, their talent is overshadowed by their violent behavior and the NFL's (not the only pro sport)unwillingness to clean up their (own)act. Too many fans still believe professional sports is a GAME. It's not, it's BIG BUSINESS!! When was the last (or any) time you went to the main HQ's of Micrsoft or Proctor and Gamble and yelled and screamed, cheered and threw money at their violent and spoiled employees? Almost none of those players are actually from the cities they play for. But those fans that support them and their behavior act as if those players really cared about them or their beloved home city. Not really, but they do enjoy their mult-million dollar contracts and the idolatory manner in which they are held high.
So next time one of them faces charges and may actually have a chance of seeing jail time I say it's about time. The joker who threw the 70K at the stripper at one of our legal establishment thought it was okay to bash the woman's head into the stage because she had the audacity to pick it up. He just wanted to throw it at her and watch her strip for it, she wasn't supposed to pick it up tho. Her unfortunate misinterpretation of his throwing money at her. I wonder how many stitches it took to close her head up? Las Vegas couldn't wait for the NBA to drop it's money and get out of here and take their spoiled and violent players with them. Same day, different 'professional' criminal punk.
As I began, tsk, tsk, hope it sticks. Next time one of you throws down a couple hundred for 'good' seats to see a criminal punk do yourself a favor and just say no. Go spend the money on your kid instead, give it to charity, buy a keg for your buddies. Any choice for the money fans spend elsewhere is money well spent.
RealityChk, I don't have a problem with your suggestion that people spend more moey on their children. There is nothing wrong with that.
The only problem I have is you mischaracterization of NFL players. "The Bulk of the NFL" does not act this way. NFL players have a lower arrest rate tha the general public. They have a lower arrest rate than actors. And possibly, from the looks of things, they will soon have lower arrest rate than our teachers.
This new ESPN and Information Age makes ALL of their run-ins much more accessible to the public eye. And the public, being so headline-driven, are eating it up faster and faster.
The problem is not onlyour athletes. The problem is society has become more violent, selfish, and criminal as a whole. These athletes are in the spotlight, and their problems are being watched through a miscroscope.
And before anyone talks about role-models. That's one problem with our society there. Raise your own children and teach them that these guys aren't moral examples just because their famous! The more we allow income to define a person's class, the more disappointed we become when our rich "heroes" fall short.
Again, not defending Jones. But we should all really get a grasp of reality before we react with such disdain to athletes in general, when our society as a whole is NO BETTER. It reeks of jealousy.
Idol worship of any person only leads to greater disappointment when they err. We only hope that as humans we can minimize the errors that we make, and learn from them. Those of us who strive to obtain a greater role in society are more visible and suseptible to greater exposure. they are the ones who should take greater care in the strides they take whilst walking the Earth. If you walk respectfully, you will be rewarded with respect. If you walk like you own the planet, don't be surprised when one day it falls on top of you. No one has to be an athlete, actor,or politician to receive more/less punishment than anyone else. It should be doled out equally. If one thing has been illustrated by the Adam "Pacman" Jones sitution, it is that things are not equal, and as sports enthusiasts follow the story, they become increasingly intolerant of the means by which others are treated vs. themselves. I could very well guarantee that the first time I physically interacted with the coach of my son's soccer team, authorities would throw the book at me...and it would be very big! To me it seems as though the Las Vegas authorities are reading the book a few times before they get ready to launch it at Jones...and to me that is unacceptible. Why shouldn't we rant a little? Forget the role model, big contract stuff...this is a bad person, with bad problems thatneeds to be dealt with as others would be...swiftly.
Las Vegas autorities should stop reading the book and throw it at him.
arrest him and suspend him.
hey reality chik i do agree with you on the bulk part but when you look at the seriouness of these crimes it is terrible in the sense of people being paralyzed in vegas/rae carruth having a hit put out on a woman/tank johnson and the gun issue/repeat offender.then there is people in atl who died no one found guilty/then there is the brown/goldman family no one found guilty again.it is just ridicoulous that we continue to give these people the benefit of the doubt cause they play football and have MONEY to buy there way out of trouble by there defense teams.if we as average americans did this we would be put away and not heard from.if we as AMERICANS need roll models they are the soldiers fighting for us in iraq/afghanistan not all these thugs in professional sports.
This PUNKman can run fast and cover someone on a football field; for that he is a millionaire. Since he is a "football" player, he is allowed to abuse women, police, rules, laws and do whatever he wants to do, right?
I know that its wrong but he should be cut come slack maybe hes just had a hard life!
He's just a young player that has grow up rough, and hasnt had the chance to leave the rough life style he grew up in and become a por bowl. I think he should spend minor time in prison but nothing major. Pacman is a young superstar and when he gets all that money. It just made things worst but the Titans have Harper and he should tutor him and take him under his wing and be a help to him. As for the other players this should be a leson for the new year coming up that this stuff wont fly and ou can't use a peson as an example for his trouble with him being young and doesnt know any better