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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
So if you are accused of a crime, but not convicted you should be punished?
I'm confused.
On the one hand we have people like Roman Polanski, actually convicted of something, getting no punishment, and then we have someone that is NOT convicted, getting a punishment....
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He wasn't punished by the legal system, but he was punished by his employer, the NFL.
When the NFL commissioner took over a few years ago he vowed to clean up the league which was starting to be known as the National Felons League. He came up with a conduct statement that he expected all players, coaches, owners etc of the league to follow. If you don't, you get punished. There are other cases where guys were involved in fights, strip club brawls and other things where no chargers were filed, but they were suspended from games and missed pay because the league decided that if you are even involved in that type of thing you are hurting them.
This is the second time this guy has had a sex crime investigation against him. From the sounds of it the DA in the case says he believes the guy did it, but that he can't prove it 100% in court. The NFL believes he needs to understand that he shouldn't be putting himself into situations where his conduct could even be questioned so they are punishing him for it.
Look at it like this. Say you were a school counselor. You work with kids and help guide them. One Saturday night you go out with some friends to a strip club where you proceed to get hammered, grope a stripper and get in a fight with the security guards. You cause all kinds of chaos and get arrested, but eventually they decide to not press charges against you. The school might look at your behavior and think that this is not how they want someone who is in charge of counseling young people to act and they might take action against you.
Same basic thing. The QB of a football team is the face of that team and one of the faces of the league and the NFL isn't very happy when one of the faces of the league is accused of raping a girl in a club bathroom.