DA Does Not Want To Ruin Football Players By Actually Prosecuting Their Crime

Please tell me when exactly did college sports players became immune from prosecution. Was this another crazy Supreme Court decision? Or is it just an unwritten law?

On Wednesday, the District Attorney in Monroe, Louisiana admitted that he did not go forward with the prosecution of two Alabama football players on drug and weapons possession charges because he did not want “to ruin the lives of two young men who have spent their adolescence and their teenage years working and sweating while we were all home in the air conditioning”. I guess I can see letting them off on the drug charge since it was just marijuana, but it does seem a little concerning that they were in possession of a handgun that was reported stolen in Alabama. You’d think the DA might be interested in finding out how stolen merchandise got across state lines into his state, but I guess not.

This follows on the heels of the Baylor football scandal and the ridiculous six-month sentence give to a rapist at Stanford where the father of this swimmer asked the court not to be too harsh just for “20 minutes of action.” And too many other incidents that are too frequent to document.

Where do they find a DA who thinks like this. I guess I could understand covering up for Alabama football players if this happened in Alabama. But this is Louisiana – obviously this guy is not an LSU fan. What a joke.