Reuben Riley fired from Wyoming coaching job for being "too physical"
Not sure if anyone saw this, but I think this absolutely sucks for Ruben. A Michigan guy just doing his job and some disrespectful student goes off and possibly ruins a great guy's career. Hopefully, there are some good MGO Lawyers out there to help Ruben get his job back. This just makes me sick.
January 29th, 2016 at 1:21 PM ^
January 29th, 2016 at 1:21 PM ^
The link to the article in the tag line instead, so we can't read it.
January 29th, 2016 at 1:21 PM ^
January 29th, 2016 at 1:23 PM ^
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January 29th, 2016 at 1:23 PM ^
Straighten it out, Boner!
January 29th, 2016 at 1:23 PM ^
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January 29th, 2016 at 1:25 PM ^
are u trying 2 share this article Yung Mann?
January 29th, 2016 at 1:25 PM ^
http://woodtv.com/2016/01/28/wyoming-hs-employee-charged-with-assaulting-student/
And I guess there is video, and it doesn't look good for Riley.
January 29th, 2016 at 1:27 PM ^
January 29th, 2016 at 1:29 PM ^
"... just doing his job..." lmao OP is an asshole.
January 29th, 2016 at 1:40 PM ^
Do you ever hold those responsible accountable or just unilaterally condemn authority figures? Your game is tired.
January 29th, 2016 at 1:50 PM ^
The kid should be held appropriately accountable - whether that be suspension, detention, expulsion, or whatever.
...that doesn't mean anything an authority figure does to enforce accountability is acceptable.
Cops want to give someone a ticket for jaywalking? Cool. Cop wants to punch someone in the face for jaywalking? Not an appropriate level of accountability. The punishment has to fit the crime.
January 29th, 2016 at 2:41 PM ^
What if said person Jaywalks and then tried to hit the cop? There's one way that ends.
January 29th, 2016 at 3:23 PM ^
the suspect hit the cops fist with his face, and will be charged with assault.
January 29th, 2016 at 5:00 PM ^
To bad the dashcam was off at the time his face assaulted the cop.
January 29th, 2016 at 1:31 PM ^
The girl (wittness) claims the kid tried to punch Riley and she's upset that he was suspended.
January 29th, 2016 at 1:38 PM ^
January 29th, 2016 at 1:42 PM ^
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January 29th, 2016 at 1:44 PM ^
January 29th, 2016 at 1:59 PM ^
You are a part of the pussification of America.
January 29th, 2016 at 2:07 PM ^
January 29th, 2016 at 2:19 PM ^
hot take
January 29th, 2016 at 2:26 PM ^
January 29th, 2016 at 2:37 PM ^
If a kid at school is disrupting class, refusing to follow teacher orders and or otherwise being as ass, they deserve to get thrown (literally) out of the class.
The law strenuoulsy disagrees absent a self defense claim.
Law enforcement has a monopoly on legal force in this country.
January 29th, 2016 at 2:42 PM ^
January 29th, 2016 at 5:22 PM ^
I find your position humorous in light of your user name.
January 29th, 2016 at 11:56 PM ^
Lemme guess, some guy from a socieconomically privileged background who uses the username "straight gansta" is now upset at the current young generation for feeling entitled? Oh, the irony.
January 30th, 2016 at 1:16 AM ^
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January 29th, 2016 at 2:27 PM ^
Seriously f off with the holier than thou rhetoric. The students all have his back in regards to who was right and wrong. Proof is in the pudding.
January 29th, 2016 at 4:54 PM ^
Proof is in the pudding. Wyoming Public Schools did nothing when it happened. They didnt take any action until the next day after watching the video when they fired him for using "excessive force". That was in the original article that was posted before being updated. This school is right in my neighborhood though I choose to send my daughter to another one in the area. I have a lot of friends that are backing him that are linked to this school district cause he was a great role model. Riley has always had violent occurences. Years ago after his stint in the NFL he would frequent the Grand Rapids night clubs and I witnessed and heard about multiple occasions where he would lay someone much smaller than him out just cause of a look or someone would bump into him and spill his drink. It came to a point where he was not allowed in a lot of the local establishments. If he just tossed the kid to the ground to calm him down, no way would that cause bruising on his back like the medical records are showing according to Wood TV. No one will really know what happened for sure until the video comes out but I would not want a school official to ever handle my child like that.
January 29th, 2016 at 2:29 PM ^
January 29th, 2016 at 2:40 PM ^
Am I missing the part of the article or video evidence in which Reuben is "beating up kids"?? Seems like a wildly inflammatory accusation.
January 29th, 2016 at 2:43 PM ^
I think everyone is. If he was "beating up" that kid, it looks like the kid came away pretty clean.
January 29th, 2016 at 3:55 PM ^
January 29th, 2016 at 4:23 PM ^
Doesn't Reilly have-- as all people in America do-- a right to self-defense (he does)? And, if Wyoming is like every other state, he has a right to defend himself proportionally to the threat being inflicted. If someone is punching you in the face, you have every right to defend yourself within reason. You do not merely have to run away. No one has a right to committ battery (or assault and battery) on another person, but everyone does have the right to protect themselves from such battery (or assault and battery), up to and including battery committed in proportional self-defense.
HOWEVA, at this school, their policies control, and if their policy is essentially "don't fight back if attacked by a student, no matter what" and Riley violated that policy, while the result is (in my view) potentially unjust in a broader sense, I don't know that it's inapppropriate (or at all illegal) to fire him for the offense. . .It certainly sucks, and seems unfair, but the context matters. If this happens on the street? No problem. Seems an open-and-shut case of self-defense. But it didn't take place in public, and it looks like Riley will have to take the consequences imposed by his employer.
January 29th, 2016 at 4:56 PM ^
January 29th, 2016 at 3:13 PM ^
I was purely responding to previous poster's knee-jerk reaction (yes I see the irony) to label the kid "victim". We should all probably wait to find out more details.
January 29th, 2016 at 2:00 PM ^
January 29th, 2016 at 2:20 PM ^
showing misbehaving teens being manhandled by adults. I know from wrestling with my 11 yr old boy that safely restraining a strong kid can be a challenge even when it's just for fun. I think many of these videos, especially when shown in slow motion, don't capture the difficulty the authority figure is put in.
I don't know whether this is the case here or not.
January 29th, 2016 at 2:34 PM ^
No. There really isn't. A 2 hour once a year training isn't enough when taking into account how little it's used and the complexity of the training.
January 29th, 2016 at 1:44 PM ^
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