Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Chris Brown In Trouble Again

Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRB6AidHRwM


Chris Brown has gotten in trouble again, according to police reports in Washington DC he is being charged with felony assault on a man. As you might know his most notable crime was the assault on famous pop star and former girlfriend of his Rihanna, where he pleaded guilty to two counts of felony assault and was sentenced to five years probation along with 180 days of community labor and ordered to complete a year of domestic violence classes. Since this incident Chris Brown has been slayed in the media for any and everything he has done, it got some bad for him that the entire year of 2012 he decided that he wouldn’t speak with the media. However that didn’t mean he would stop the media from attacking him, throughout the year he was attacked for several petty incidents. He was criticized by the media for bashing rapper Jay-z for talking about how he sold drugs before he became a rapper. Then in February the paparazzi was following him so much that they caused Chris to total his Lamborghini. Assuming that it couldn’t get any worse with Chris Brown and his alleged bad luck, he was in a night club in New York city where he ran into his industry Foe Drake, the two formed a strong dislike for one another when rumors surfaced that Drake was dating Rihanna. Rumors that Chris didn’t take lightly, reports have it that all hell broke loose in the NY nightclub, where champagne bottles were thrown across the club between the two celebrities in attempt to harm each other. Now I pose this question, is Chris Brown a troublemaker or has he become a victim of yellow journalism?

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Discrimination Amongst Athletes in the Legal System



If you're not a huge football fan then you may not know that over the summer of the NFL’s elite tight end was charged with 1st degree murder along with two other charges of unlawful possession of a fire arm and unlawful possession of a large firearm. So I bet you are wondering ok another football player has gotten in trouble whats the big deal right?
Well if you do a little research on the case you see the unusual things that is going on in this case. First and most importantly the state not allowing him to make bail, now ask yourself how does someone with no prior criminal record gets his bail denied. If you watched the video it explains everything you need to know, the judge states how she considered Hernandez a flight risk simply because he is being accused of cold-blooded murder and because he has the means to flee. I thought in America you were innocent until proven guilty, I kind of felt that the judge was already convicting Hernandez of murder in the first degree.


         Now lets discuss another athlete being mistreated in the legal system, Floyd Mayweather a famous boxer known for his undefeated record in the sport of boxing and the amount of money he’s made in the sport. Mayweather was sentenced back in 2012 to 90 days in jail after he pleaded guilty to battery in a domestic violence dispute. After the judge sentenced him she stated to Floyd “no matter who you are, you have consequences to your actions when they escalate to this level of violence.” Now Mayweather like Hernandez is a guy who has no prior criminal record and was given jail time for a misdemeanor on his first conviction. Are you noticing any similarities in these two cases? But that’s not even the worse part Floyd was placed in solitary confinement the entire time he spent in jail because the he was considered a “special inmate” according to the Nevada Clark County detention center. Basically because Floyd is a famous boxer he wasn’t allowed fair treatment while incarcerated but instead he was placed where murderers, serial killers etc spend their jail time. The discrimination towards athletes must stop, they are normal citizens like everyone else.