(10-13-2022 06:26 PM)TheWoodenNickle Wrote:  https://www.tmz.com/2022/10/13/basketbal...social-fbs

In the bodycam video you can see that the officers were very cool with the kid, even letting him use his phone. It also strikes me how scared he was. Just a reminder that he is a kid.

Finally, the man he was talking to on the phone (dad?) asked him if they "found my gun." Like I said before, it is not Emoni's gun.

Several comments:

1). This should be a training tape how traffic stops should be handled. The deputies were 100% professional. Emoni was a scared, cooperative 18 or 19 year old. I was VERY impressed how all handled it including his parents. The police read him his Miranda rights.

2). The info we developed was very good. We got the ownership of the gun and car correct. We had the parameters correct and did not buy into any story line that Emoni is a gangbanger or any other negative stereotype. He is basically a young college student.

3). I had heard he didn't have a DL (but I didn't post it).

4). And after all of the bad outcomes we see (including the kid shot recently while eating a hamburger at McDonalds) we should all be thankful that this has turned out as well as could be expected.

5). I may be a little more tolerant than some, but weed and cigarettes are as part of college aged as Boones farm was in my day. If we booted students who used weed
and cigarettes we'd probably have to close half of the dorms.

6). EMU handled it well. They did nothing which I find objectionable. As I had indicated, if the case would have dragged on I would have thought Wetherbee and Dr. Smith could have reviewed the suspension from athletics based on discovery. Based on the police tape, I'd let him practice. Obviously the case did not get to the discovery phase (with the reduced charges).