No Charges Filed Against High School Basketball Brawlers
Remember the brawl that broke out at a Southside High School basketball game in February? The fight that even had some parents throwing punches?
Turns out the appalling behavior will go without official punishment.
The Greenville County Sheriff’s Department has declined to file charges against any of the brawlers from Southside High School or their opponents at Abbeville High.
Greenville County Sheriff’s Lt. Shea Smith said the decision was reached because no victims came forward to file assault reports and administrators at both schools assured investigators the students involved were appropriately punished.
Abbeville suspended eight players from school for five days. Southside disciplined three players.
Sounds like an appropriate punishment for your basic schoolyard fight. But for a melee that nearly devolved into a riot? Not so much.
These kids might not be hardened criminals (yet), but having to stand before a judge might have made them think twice before throwing punches on the basketball court.
Eight High School Basketball Players Suspended Over Brawl
Something tells me that a school that can’t control their sports teams at games has more problems than poor sportsmanship:
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Eight Abbeville High School athletes were suspended on Thursday after a brawl at the team’s basketball game against Southside High School on Wednesday night.
Southside High School was hosting Abbeville High School on Wednesday night. A scorekeeper at the game told FOX Carolina that the referees made some controversial calls during the game, but Southside beat Abbeville 61-51.
Deputies said that when fans started to run out onto the floor after the victory, two players began fighting. They said that the fight spilled into the crowd. They said that before it was over, even some parents were throwing punches.
Stay classy Abbeville parents. School officials are shocked, shocked, that his precious young charges would act in this way:
“We take good pride in the character of our kids,” said Abbeville High School Principal Dr. Steve Glenn, who was also at Wednesday’s game. “For something like this to happen, it’s out of character for our kids. We are very embarrassed that it did happen.”
I bet. There’s no word yet on whether any charges will be filed for what is essentially a riot. I would put forward that is part of the problem with the kids. Cooling their heels in county would probably make them a little less quick with their fists.
The People You Meet at Coffee Underground
I went to Coffee Underground once. The coffee was awful, the bathroom looked like a crack house whose floor was made of solidified urine and the customers were a combination of coke sniffing hipster douchebags and the immature baby boomers who hang around them talking about how fascist everyone is who doesn’t smoke pot and rub one out to Howard Zinn. It’s more of a pretension than a coffee shop, a place people who can’t be trusted to not get themselves beat up in a bar can hang out and pretend they’re better than the rest of the people wandering around downtown Greenville.
Thus this story doesn’t surprise me at all:
Besides their popular brew, it’s been the conversation at Coffee Underground in Greenville for days: how to help victims in Haiti. “Customers are very generous,“ says owner Dana Lowie. “They want to help however they can.“ Lowie put out a jar collecting cash for the relief effort, but never expected what came next. “This guy came in, came up to the register, and started chit chatting with my employee,“ she says. The shop security camera then catches the man stuff the donation jar in his jacket and taking off.
Police have reviewed the video tape an have identified the suspect as David Brozowski. Police have issued a warrant for Brozowski, but he has not yet been arrested.
Greenville Police say Brozowski was out on bond on a murder charge from a 2009 incident in which they say Brozowski hit a man at a bar. They say that man later died from his injuries.
Stealing $20 while out on bond for murder? Hmmm. Could he be a drug addict? As an aside, why is a man who just recently killed a guy out on bond anyway? He is clearly a danger to the community.
I bet he fit right in at Coffee Underground though, until he disabused them of their Utopian hippydom.
Exit question: Why don’t you ever hear about murderers and drug addicts frequenting Starbucks?
Police Impersonator Who Pulled Over Lone Woman Released on His Own Recognizance?
On October 11th, 2009, 37-year-old Kerry James Miler was caught impersonating a police officer. More disturbing was that he had pulled a woman over for a traffic stop. The fake cop gambit, popular with rapists and other degenerates, was thankfully broken up before anything happened.
Miler was released on his own recognizance however, in a move that illustrates authorities aren’t taking this incident as seriously as they should. From the Greenville Police Crime Report:
IMPERSONATING OFFICER S. PLEASANTBURG & E. ANTRIM 10/11/2009 SUNDAY 1456 10/11/2009 SUNDAY 1500 37-YEAR-OLD KERRY JAMES MILER WAS ARRESTED AFTER HE FALSELY IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS A POLICE OFFICER AND HAD A WOMAN PULL OFF THE ROADWAY AT THIS LOCATION FOLLOWING A TRAFFIC INCIDENT. MILER WAS ARRAIGNED AND RELEASED ON HIS OWN RECOGNIZANCE THE SAME DAY.
The court records for Miler are available here and here. Let’s hope he stays out of trouble while he’s out.