OT: Det News uncovers old, dropped sexual assault indictment against Matt Patricia
Statistics? Even if 1% (hint: It's higher than this) were false accusations, that's 1 in 100. That's still a lot of people falsely accused when yoou look at the big picture. I'd guess, only a guess, that false accusations increase when you're a public figure who has money because there's way more to gain if you win. BUT, maybe he is a horrible abuser. Maybe anyone is! When you only have an accusation you dont know. So in a civilized society we don't round up people when we don't know. I know your not advocating for THAT necessarly, but thats what it looks like when you apply your opinion to the real worls. I try to make sure my opinions, if applied in a real scenario, wouldn't tear apart society. Just a thought.
I, for one, am having a great time downvoting every one of your asinine opinions.
Your take is bad, and you should feel bad. What if he's completely innocent? You still okay with your stance?
May your peculiarly strident unreasonableness visit upon you in a non-life threatening but mind-opening way.
So much irony in this thread.
Because you would get the living shit sued out of yourself, you would lose in epic fashion, and your entire life from there on would be a colossal dumpster fire.
just so I'm understanding this correctly. If someone had accused you of sexual assault or sexual harassment twenty years ago, and you went to court and the case was dismissed because your accuser refused to testify or participate, you would advocate for you losing your job? Just want to make sure we are all going to hold eachother equally accountable.
You will forever be known to me as the Matt Patricia idiot.
Um...what?
fuck you man. your opinions are what dictatorial/authoritarian regimes are made of and they are an insult to every single person who has ever been wrongly accused or falsely imprisoned. just shut the fuck up already. this is america and we don't punish people for mere accusations here.
that it's already an authoritarian nightmare is the first thing i've agreed with you on this whole comment section. Have you just given up on being part of the solution and resorted to anarchist ideologies?
nor do we punish based on "statistics".
Oh please. Tell us where anyone has ever been convicted based on what other people did instead of him.
have been thousands of hot takes on this board about really dumb shit. What you said today takes the cake as probably the dumbest thing i have ever read on this blog. the stats say you are a moron and should shut the fuck up and never post again.
But I think he's relying on the model where you have a billion downvotes on each of your lunatic posts and not one person has had the heart to throw you a token +1.
That's my guess.
very likely did something and the statistics say he did something. dude , thats some pretty fucked up logic. the stats say i shit every morning but i didnt this morning
JBE, I found your crib online. Very nice!
Why "should" they fire him?
suggest otherwise.
In fact, reading through the articles about this, it sounds like Matty P and his friend even tried to reach out to the alleged victim to understand her side of the story before handling the legal process. They got no response and nothing ever came of it. Very indicative of most criminals don't you think? /s
"The statistics say"???
You're judging a guy and holding yourself forth as the moral arbiter of whether or not he deserves a career because of "statistics"??? Not, you know, the case itself, but whether other people raped someone??
Fuck that opinion.
For a country founded on individual liberty, it's pretty scary to know someone thinks people should be punished if they belong to a group that statistically offends at a higher rate.
shit man i hope you're not working in the criminal justice field
shit man i hope you're not working in the criminal justice field
I think you mean “raises the question” as “begs the question” means circular reasoning
Pedant rant over
Then it's somewhat of a dead issue.....
The Lions certainly deserve some heat for not discovering this sooner......we take background checks here at work very seriously as we should. I've seen good candidates lose their place in line for a postion for far less serious findings.
Patricia shouldn't lose his job but the Lions in my mind owe their fans an explanation and shame on them if he or they are using the "he was 21 and on Spring break in Texas" line. The optics of that are really bad given the lanscape of this issue in today's world.
That would mean she admitted she made the whole thing up; that's not what happened. Charges were dropped when she decided she didn't want to pursue the case, which can happen when an alleged victim decides it is not worth the trauma to go to trial. This type of decision can be especially prevalent in sexual assualt cases.
Doesn't mean it happened. But I would feel a WHOLE lot better about this if the Lions knew about it and had investigated it on their own, so if/when it came up, they could refer to that due diligence and explain to their fans why they were comfortable it was not trrue and that Patricia was a good hire.
A good Twitter thread that helped me sort my thoughts on the issue out:
https://twitter.com/Redruckus81/status/994572236014211072
tldr;
It's unfortunate and it's hard to say what actually happened one way or the other. If more accusations come to light, then there is a problem.