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Two "star" football players get in an accident, and run off.
No tests for alcohol, no citation for hit-and-run.
Figures.
For an F.S.U. Football Player, a Hit-and-Run Becomes Traffic Tickets
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. In the early-morning hours of Oct. 5, as this college town was celebrating another big football victory by Florida State University, a starting cornerback on the team drove his car into the path of an oncoming vehicle driven by a teenager returning home from a job at the Olive Garden.
Both cars were totaled. But rather than remain at the scene as the law requires, the football player, P. J. Williams, left his wrecked vehicle in the street and fled into the darkness along with his two passengers, including Ronald Darby, the teams other starting cornerback.
The Tallahassee police responded to the off-campus accident, eventually reaching out to the Florida State University police and the universitys athletic department.
By the next day, it was as if the hit-and-run had never happened.
The New York Times looked into how the police handled this case, reviewing law enforcement records and interviewing witnesses, lawyers, the police and a university representative. The examination found that Mr. Williams, driving with a suspended license, was given a break by the Tallahassee police, who initially labeled the accident a hit-and-run, a criminal act, but later decided to issue him only two traffic tickets. Afterward, the case did not show up in the citys public online database of police calls a technical glitch, the police said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/15/sports/ncaafootball/for-an-fsu-football-player-a-hit-and-run-becomes-two-traffic-tickets.html?emc=edit_na_20141114&nlid=50586859&_r=0
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)a kennedy
(29,673 posts)How many incidents has he been in so far? three that I can think of..... Ugh. At least his hiseman rating has fallen into the dumpster.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)First, they covered up the J. Winston rape case. Now this. I wonder what other steaming piles of bullshit are festering in that police department and in FSU Administration and Athletic Dept?
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)The police department, and the university need some serious clean up.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)not just the rapists.
spanone
(135,844 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)They need the death penalty
lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)It sounds like a coal mine company town where they have the best justice money can buy.
Oh wait, Rick Scott won reelection here. Things are starting to get a little clearer now.