Dantonio: I've Done Nothing Wrong and I'm Not Retiring

We live in a world filled with deeply flawed people and institutions. There are no perfect beings in this world. That does not mean that people cannot criticize others for engaging in acts that people in their community also were guilty of.

If we employed your logic Americans could not criticize Germans for the Holocaust because Americans committed genocide against the Natives Americans.  No one could judge anyone because well they too were sinners.

That is some dangerous logic to deploy.

I have a friend in the ELPD who can corroborate this, though I'm pulling here from 95% public sources I cite. I'd like to first say my personal opinion is that assault of any kind should be immediate grounds for removal from a team (where evidence supports it). Period. However it's difficult when police officers have a inherent bias or might get heat from their superiors for doing/not doing something. Case in point below:

MSU's Travis Walton was accused of assaulting a woman at an East Lansing bar in 2010. The evidence was clear that she had been punched in the face while with Walton, and her story was consistent. ELPD investigated, and decided to only charge Walton with littering, a civil infraction, no charges were announced in district court, and he remained on the basketball team as a coach (until the second incident). Let's contrast that with Perry's situation below.

Prior to the MSU game in 2016, Grant Perry was accused by a MSU student of assault outside of Lou & Harry's in East Lansing. According to the student it took place right in front of the bouncer (Perry was next in line). While the MSU student admitted that prior to the incident she was upset at Perry (for having cut in line) and knew he was a UM football player as he was taunting her about UM vs MSU, and while the bouncer was at the time trying to tell Perry to get out of the line, the bouncer did not see any altercation, none of the woman's friends saw the altercation, the cameras outside of Lou & Harry's did not show any contact, and the woman's story was not consistent. She first alleged to the bouncer that Perry had grabbed her butt. She then told Police during the interview that night that it was her crotch, not her butt. After interviewing the bouncer they went back to the lady and asked her why her story wasn't consistent. She told them the second time that it was both crotch and butt, though there was no dna on her clothes to confirm either location. After the cameras didn't show any contact, the bouncer and her friends didn't see anything, and as Perry was disupting it entirely, consistently, (even in the sneaky recording the ELPD took of his phone conversation with his mother where he admitted that he had messed up in having tried to walk away from the police, but that was the extent of it). The police department then made a public announcement asking anyone who knew anything to come forward. Nobody could. While he did try to walk away, ELPD knew at the time there was no way a sexual assault charge would hold up, not even in East Lansing for a UM football player, however the city charging attorney still made the decision to charge him with it. 

And before anyone makes a claim of charging attorney non-bias, East Lansing just settled a claim against its very own charging Attorney Thomas M. Yeadon. He was charged with fraud against the federal government for diverting $135,000 in federal funds to pay for upkeep on his personal property during the same timeframe he was going after Perry.