Robert Wilson said:
bear2be2 said:
Robert Wilson said:
bear2be2 said:
Robert Wilson said:
bear2be2 said:
RD2WINAGNBEAR86 said:
EvilTroyAndAbed said:
Robert Wilson said:
bear2be2 said:
Robert Wilson said:
Too bad the ranks of the baylorfans righteous don't run the Travis County DA office. Those guys must be a bunch of woman hating knuckle draggers.
There's often a gulf between what can be proven in court without a cooperating victim or corroborating witness and what actually occurred. To pretend there's not and that no charges/conviction means no crime occurred is willful ignorance.
I'll take the contemporaneous report over the recanted accusation most times, particularly in domestic abuse cases or any case involving high-profile/rich defendants who have the means and influence to make their issues disappear.
And when we've reached a place where taking a hard-line stance against beating/strangling a woman is virtue signaling, we've got serious issues as a society.
There's also a gulf between what we know and what actually occurred. That's why all the procedures in the legal system exist - as an acknowledgement that assumptions and jumping to conclusions based on a scant amount of evidence are not sufficient basis for conviction. Reasonable minds can differ on this, but I respect those procedures, and as an extension of that I personally would not socially convict someone (a term I made up, but I think everyone will more or less understand) on less evidence than a court requires - for the exact same reasons. Our society used to more or less recognize that and roll with it. More recently, even if someone is not criminally convicted, we are happy to visit as many consequences on them as possible outside of the court of law. That used to be called lynching. Now it's called cancelling or some such. I think it's small minded and unattractive. But I'm clearly an outlier.
I probably wouldn't use the term "lynching" to refer to a rich white man whose only consequence for domestic abuse is to leave one P5 head coaching job for another.
Too bad you aren't the judge, jury, and executioner. This world could be rid of Chris Beard. So you really think lynching refers to only black people? You should do some research. LOL!!! My, my aren't you a special virtue signaling snowflake!!!!
Imagine defending a woman-beating piece of **** and thinking you're the one with the moral high ground.
It's not virtue signaling to say that a guy caught beating, biting and strangling his fiance shouldn't be rewarded with one of the top-50 college basketball jobs in the country. It's common sense.
Dude. So that's how you get a top-50 college basketball job? Seems like it would require more qualifications...
No one questions Chris Beard's on-court qualifications. It's his off-court disqualifications that you guys seem to struggle with.
I'm not the one struggling with them. I'm willing to exercise more detached humility regarding what I do and don't know.
That's a lot of big and unnecessary words for, "I'm willing to overlook domestic abuse for guys who coach basketball well."
Sorry for the big words. My vocabulary probably is bigger than yours, but my crystal ball is smaller.
The police report says the following injuries were evident:
--Bite mark to her right forearm (visible teeth marks and redness)
--Abrasion to her right eyebrow/temple area
--Abrasion/scrape to her left leg from her knee to her foot
--Cut to her thumb with dried blood
Additionally, the victim listed the following strangulation symptoms:
--Difficulty breathing (during)
--Rapid breathing (after)
--Shallow breath (during)
Just so we're all the same page, which part are you disputing exactly? Are you suggesting nothing happened, she deserved it, what?
Personally, I don't particularly care what the circumstances are. I don't want a coach who beats women leading my program. But if we're going to pretend that Chris Beard is the real victim here, let's at least lay out the basis for that assertion.