A Houston grand jury recently indicted pro football player Michael Bennett on the charge of injuring an elderly woman, and his social justice warrior friends in the media have their long knives out for the police. Dave Zirin, who co-wrote a book (Things That Make White People Uncomfortable) with Bennett, to be released tomorrow, charges the arrest was timed with the release of the book. Described by Townhall Seattle as a "feminist," Bennett surrendered to Houston police last week and was released on $10,000 bail.
According to Houston police, Bennett rushed from the stands to try to go down onto the field following the conclusion of the 2017 Super Bowl and congratulate his brother Martellus, then with the Patriots. A 66-year-old paraplegic security guard told him to use another entrance, but he allegedly profaned her and brushed by and injured her shoulder and back. In the book co-written by Bennett and Zirin, the football player is ironically portrayed as an advocate of women’s rights and a defender of the defenseless.
Zirin, an ultra-lefty sports editor for The Nation, was more concerned about Bennett’s book release than the well-being of the defenseless woman who was injured. He tweeted this:
Shaun King, a former writer for The New York Daily News who now race baits on The Intercept blog, said the Bennett indictment is "complete BS." In a series of tweets he wrote: "I call BS on the arrest of Michael Bennett for felony assault. They are saying 14 months ago his hand touched a woman's shoulder at the Super Power as he walked on to the field. That's it."
Tully Corcoran, writer for The Big Lead, expressed doubt that the case goes to trial because it's Bennett's word against the security guard's -- even though others witnessed the football player overpower the disabled senior citizen. Corcoran likes the storyline of Bennett's "famed Houston attorney-to-the-stars Rusty Hardin," who says a lot of people were rushing through that area and Bennett never touched the woman. Corcoran wrote:
"If it comes to it, the defense presumably will speculate as to whether Houston police had a more personal or political motivation to charge Bennett, and (Chief of Police Art) Acevedo helped the defense’s cause by offering up an unusual string of judgments not about the case or the evidence, but about the subjective nature of the defendant.
“You’re morally corrupt if you put your hands on a little old lady in a wheelchair,” Acevedo said. 'That is morally corrupt.'”
Corcoran claims Acevedo has already prejudiced the jury and says, "If the district attorney has half that much of the redass, Bennett’s going to be sitting there in the box trying to convince a Houston jury that a police officer and a little old lady in an 800-pound wheelchair are liars. Fending off that would be quite the goal-line stand."
Whenever the big SJW superstar Bennett gets into hot water with the law, there's always a supportive media ready with excuses and charges of racism. Last fall Bennett was leaving a boxing match in Las Vegas when police were investigating a report of a shooting. Bennett saw the police, ran and hid, so the police briefly detained him to find out why he was running. His story goes that the (Hispanic and White) police officers racially profiled him and threatened to kill him because he's black. He threatened to sue them. King and others angrily defended Bennett then, too.
The bottom line is this: If you're a football/social justice hero ... you can do no wrong, but your detractors and accusers are racists who are out to get you.
