NINEster":1o0cx1jl said:
Bruce Miller had some run in with the police, despite being White.
Can't pin it on race all the f'n time, come on now.
I'd rather go with the Maras are in bed with Goodell and the NFL, whereas Richardson, York, etc. are not.
It's helpful to use the quote function when responding to a specific post. The one you are answering says the Josh Brown story won't gain much attention, and the poster mentions race as being a factor.
Do a something search for Bruce Miller and nothing about police or arrests comes up on the first page. There's one story on page 2 (the 17th item) that mentions he plead no-contest to a domestic-violence charge, and two mentions on page 3. A Greg Hardy search brings up four stories on page 1 that mention domestic violence. A Ray Rice search brings up five.
I agree, we cannot isolate race when comparing these wholesale. There are too many variables. We can say that race might play a role in how much attention a particular story gets. That's just one aspect in all this: the media. In that case we're talking about dozens of outlets, with dozens of editors and decision makers choosing what to cover and how much space to give it.
And I think race isn't the ultimate factor in the NFL's discipline either. Rice was originally suspended 2 games. It was only after the video, and the awkward denial of having seen it, that Goodell and the NFL scrambled around trying to convey that they were aware domestic violence is a bad thing. They promised to be better going forward. But the takeaway is that Goodell and a lot of other men
still don't understand or care about the severity of spousal abuse.
Because right on cue, the Ray Rice search I just did brought up this:
Ray Rice Part II? Giants’ Josh Brown Suspended One Game After Disturbing Domestic Violence Claims
[She] estimated she had called the police 10 times prior to the incident that prompted Josh Brown’s arrest in 2015. She estimated that Brown has said he was going to kill her four or five times...
The NFL presumably could have gathered this information if it wanted to. After all, the league claimed it would no longer rely on the criminal justice system. Instead, it would conduct its own research, because domestic abusers have no place in the NFL.
Alas, it was the New York Daily News and not the National Football League that uncovered all of this information. And now it puts the league in quite the quandary.
The NYDN link, includes 911 call:
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/footb ... ts+Twitter
And it's not just the head office. Every blind-eye is complicit in allowing this evil stuff to happen. New head coach Ben McAdoo, when he was hired in January:
“Domestic violence is something that we’re all cracking down on in this league,” he stated.
Ben McAdoo this week:
I do support Josh as a man, a father, and a player."
And when asked if he looked into the story himself,
“I stay in my lane,” McAdoo told the Daily News. “I don’t have any information on that.”
I know teams run things their own way and everyone's responsibilities are different. But if the head coach of the Seahawks said that in response to claims that one of his players has been terrorizing his wife and was physically violent with her while she was pregnant, I'd be demanding an explanation, or possibly his termination as coach. The "see no evil, hear no evil" excuse is furiously unacceptable.
I hope this story does blow up, because the NFL has learned nothing from its mistakes.
