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PlagmanAnother Black Athlete gets Picked on: "Pacman" Jones Facing Felony Charges for Vegas Shooting
Once again, the NFL has chosen to unfairly make an example out of a respectable black athlete who happens to be in the area when people at strip clubs are shot. Because of his skin color, NFL star Adam “Pacman” Jones has been once again targeted by the Nevada police, who, four months after the fact, have decided to charge Jones with two counts of felony coercion based on alleged accusations that he allegedly threatened to kill employees of the Minxx strip club, and that he allegedly bit one of the bouncers; allegedly.
Although the first nine times the police racially profiled Jones and involved him in an investigation stayed relatively quiet, his tenth involvement would land him a suspension for the entire 2007 season, which could be reduced to eight games if he is able to meet several requirements, one of which is to avoid being involved in any further police investigations. But even though demands such as these are outrageous, unconstitutional, and against Jones’ religion, they do serve to illustrate the injustices present in punishing NFL stars who are just trying to make a living and maintain their street cred, same as anyone else.
See, wha had happen wuz, during the NBA All-Star break in February, Pacman and his entourage were visiting the Minxx strip club in Las Vegas to get directions on where they could attend Sunday School the following morning. Before any of them could react, there was a triple-shooting, leaving one of the bouncers paralyzed and two others wounded. As Las Vegas police pressed for charges to be filed against Jones based on his success as a black athlete, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell wasted no time in adhering to his latest, “Ten Strikes and You’re Out” policy, and suspended Jones.
On June 20th of this year, Jones was allegedly involved in another alleged shooting at an alleged strip club in Atlanta, the alleged capital of Georgia, which allegedly is in the United States; the investigation is ongoing as to on which continent. One-day after hearing the Atlanta police might arrest Jones first based on his race, the Las Vegas police issued a warrant for his arrest on the aforementioned coercion charges. Jones intends to surrender to Nevada police tomorrow morning when he wakes up at 3pm.
Manny Arora, Jones’ attorney, has accused the Nevada police of leaking the information about the athlete because he is a celebrity, in hopes of tarnishing the upstanding citizen’s image before potential jurors are selected.
“Police keep saying they want to treat him like everyone else,” said Arora. “It’s infuriating. He isn’t being treated like everyone else; they’re treating him like some sort of criminal. Look, if he were a criminal, he would have been convicted one of those five times he was arrested the last two years, just like everyone else.”
Because of the glare from the thirty pounds of bling that Jones and each member of his entourage were wearing, no one has been able to identify the shooter. Jones is being accused of instigating the raucous inside the club after he showered the stage with cash from a plastic bag, and then attacked a stripper when she reached to pick some of it up. He is also accused of threatening the life of club employees, and punching a man in the face, whom police later identified as Jones’ own business manager. Witnesses reported that Jones later walked away from the club with a man wearing a baggy black T-shirt and blue jeans, which is the same outfit worn by the individual police say was standing next to a palm tree when he began to open fire on people in front of the club.
Sadly, the NFL, the news media, Paris Hilton, and the police have gone out of their way to portray Pacman Jones in a negative light. Although he may have been involved in eleven investigations and arrested five times in two years, the American system of justice requires hard evidence before a man’s image can be forever tarnished. Moreover, Las Vegas police have very little, if any, experience in arresting playas, street soldas, gangstas, or even shawtys, thus providing a considerable level of doubt that the men they are accusing were even at that particular strip club on the alleged night in question.
Pacman and his crew could have been anywhere that night; maybe they were at a different strip club, or had just gotten home from a strip club, or were on their way to a strip club, or were deciding which strip club to go to, or were at the bank to get $1000 worth of $1 bills to put in a plastic bag for the strip club, or were at home reading each strip club’s review online at stripclubratings.com, or were searching for other websites with strip club reviews to compare with stripclubratings.com.
Regardless of whether or not Pacman and his entourage were there, more should be taken into account than “eye-witnesses” or “Jones’ exact teeth-marks in the bouncer he bit,” but very rarely, if ever, are black athletes given the benefit of the doubt; except for OJ, and Kobe, and Michael Vick before the feds usurped the DA who “didn’t like the way the search warrant was worded.”
Either way, justice will prevail, and Pacman Jones will overcome the stereotype that thug gangsta-wannabes who never get left alone by the police are a detriment to society, otherwise Al Sharpton will have to try even harder to ignore the real problem.
Although the first nine times the police racially profiled Jones and involved him in an investigation stayed relatively quiet, his tenth involvement would land him a suspension for the entire 2007 season, which could be reduced to eight games if he is able to meet several requirements, one of which is to avoid being involved in any further police investigations. But even though demands such as these are outrageous, unconstitutional, and against Jones’ religion, they do serve to illustrate the injustices present in punishing NFL stars who are just trying to make a living and maintain their street cred, same as anyone else.
See, wha had happen wuz, during the NBA All-Star break in February, Pacman and his entourage were visiting the Minxx strip club in Las Vegas to get directions on where they could attend Sunday School the following morning. Before any of them could react, there was a triple-shooting, leaving one of the bouncers paralyzed and two others wounded. As Las Vegas police pressed for charges to be filed against Jones based on his success as a black athlete, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell wasted no time in adhering to his latest, “Ten Strikes and You’re Out” policy, and suspended Jones.
On June 20th of this year, Jones was allegedly involved in another alleged shooting at an alleged strip club in Atlanta, the alleged capital of Georgia, which allegedly is in the United States; the investigation is ongoing as to on which continent. One-day after hearing the Atlanta police might arrest Jones first based on his race, the Las Vegas police issued a warrant for his arrest on the aforementioned coercion charges. Jones intends to surrender to Nevada police tomorrow morning when he wakes up at 3pm.
Manny Arora, Jones’ attorney, has accused the Nevada police of leaking the information about the athlete because he is a celebrity, in hopes of tarnishing the upstanding citizen’s image before potential jurors are selected.
“Police keep saying they want to treat him like everyone else,” said Arora. “It’s infuriating. He isn’t being treated like everyone else; they’re treating him like some sort of criminal. Look, if he were a criminal, he would have been convicted one of those five times he was arrested the last two years, just like everyone else.”
Because of the glare from the thirty pounds of bling that Jones and each member of his entourage were wearing, no one has been able to identify the shooter. Jones is being accused of instigating the raucous inside the club after he showered the stage with cash from a plastic bag, and then attacked a stripper when she reached to pick some of it up. He is also accused of threatening the life of club employees, and punching a man in the face, whom police later identified as Jones’ own business manager. Witnesses reported that Jones later walked away from the club with a man wearing a baggy black T-shirt and blue jeans, which is the same outfit worn by the individual police say was standing next to a palm tree when he began to open fire on people in front of the club.
Sadly, the NFL, the news media, Paris Hilton, and the police have gone out of their way to portray Pacman Jones in a negative light. Although he may have been involved in eleven investigations and arrested five times in two years, the American system of justice requires hard evidence before a man’s image can be forever tarnished. Moreover, Las Vegas police have very little, if any, experience in arresting playas, street soldas, gangstas, or even shawtys, thus providing a considerable level of doubt that the men they are accusing were even at that particular strip club on the alleged night in question.
Pacman and his crew could have been anywhere that night; maybe they were at a different strip club, or had just gotten home from a strip club, or were on their way to a strip club, or were deciding which strip club to go to, or were at the bank to get $1000 worth of $1 bills to put in a plastic bag for the strip club, or were at home reading each strip club’s review online at stripclubratings.com, or were searching for other websites with strip club reviews to compare with stripclubratings.com.
Regardless of whether or not Pacman and his entourage were there, more should be taken into account than “eye-witnesses” or “Jones’ exact teeth-marks in the bouncer he bit,” but very rarely, if ever, are black athletes given the benefit of the doubt; except for OJ, and Kobe, and Michael Vick before the feds usurped the DA who “didn’t like the way the search warrant was worded.”
Either way, justice will prevail, and Pacman Jones will overcome the stereotype that thug gangsta-wannabes who never get left alone by the police are a detriment to society, otherwise Al Sharpton will have to try even harder to ignore the real problem.
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