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Details emerge in Warren Brinson arrest, pellet-gun shooting on University of Georgia campus
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Details emerge in Warren Brinson arrest, pellet-gun shooting on University of Georgia campus
ATHENS — Details have emerged in the arrest of Georgia junior defensive lineman Warren Brinson, who faces two counts of simple battery.
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I wouldn't comment on it, either, if I was Smart. No pun intended. LOL
These kids need to go back to throwing water balloons. Using a gun to shoot em, is cheating and too easy to misinterpret. Especially these days. It's time to put the water guns, nerf guns and other toy weapons away, boys. It's not working out. LOL
LOL...Now we know what kids have been up to, during the COVID Lockdowns. Finding new ways to torment each other. We're in a new day and age with upgraded water, jelly, paint and nerf weaponry. OMG, What will we ever do? Now we've got drive-by water gunning. LMAO
Why do some people assume it's okay to assault others? Even a pellet gun using gel projectiles can leave a red and stinging mark on skin. A shot to the eye could possibly cause blindness. It's best to not not assault others with objects that look like real firearms, it could cause the person being assaulted to bring a real firearm into the battle. Enjoy life and leave others to their pursuit of happiness, without pointing objects their way.
It’s impossible to read the AJC for even five minutes without seeing story after story about murder after murder by people with guns with real bullets. Most are unsolved or take days or even weeks to apprehend a suspect. Yet the Cracker Jack UGA police can crack the case of the Jell Pellet Shooter within a couple of hours. I guess that’s a good thing since UGA and Brinson will avoid the embarrassment of being featured on an upcoming episode of America’s Most Wanted.
LOL...Exactly my point. Seems people are flying fast and loose these days, with the word "injury". You know darned well the investigating officer(s) knew what this was. It looks like a campus fad.
Yet, they tracked him down, like they do in the ID drama, "See No Evil", using on--street video cams. Once they identified where he lived,, instead of doing a knock-and-talk, they called out the swat team and surrounded the barracks in the wee hours of the morning to bring in this college gangster. LOL. Keystone Kops. Real criminals skate right by em every day. Wonder how they're doing with the Fentanyl crisis.
I'm sure it either scared or p..ssed off those girls. Or, both. But, it didn't injure them. I had 3 "minor injuries" yesterday and one when I got up this morning. LOL. It would have made me mad as hell. But, it's not worth all the hullabaloo.
I am curious, though, if this is the same "weapon" and ammo that Green used last November.
I find it very odd that people on here are bad mouthing the police for doing their job and, it seems, doing it well. It does not matter what you think qualifies as assault. The fact is, it was reported and the police are obligated to investigate and follow through. They had the description, they had the video, they found the violator who admitted to the crime.
Keystone Kops?! Seriously?
Why does no one call out the idiotic action of Brinson? Shooting someone from a car and driving away? I believe that is how a drive by shooting is described. I matters not if he thought is was someone he knew (which I do not for a second believe). Do I think it was more than a bad idea prank? No, but it WAS a bad idea and the police did their job.
The police selectively do their job and I think that defines the main issue. I don't know about where you are from, but, where I live, if I reported that "someone hit me with a rock and it hurt", to the police...they'd take the report and laugh all the way back to their car. I really think, there has to be more to this story...from many angles.
For instance, is this an on-going Fad at this University? Is it going on elsewhere? Have other Students been arrested for like activity or is it just Student-Athletes? Lot of questions that this incident poses. When paintball first started, they didn't have all these organized paintball courses. Is this the newest "thing", that will one day be an organized event? Curious.
But, it's not worth losing sleep over. Brinson's actions were ill-advised in any case and I would think that goes without saying. But, if you think differently...then...there, I've SAID it. LOL
I can’t agree more that cops have a job to do. I just wish they attacked their work of bringing real criminals to justice with the same zeal the UGA and Athens/Clarke County police have in arresting and charging UGA athletes, especially football players.
I wish I could say it speaks well of UGA campus safety that the police had nothing better to do than to launch this investigation within minutes of this welt creating misdemeanor. Within two hours they had reviewed film, located the car apparently at an off campus apartment complex which means ACC police were also involved, and questioned Brinson according to the story.
No, the truth is obvious that when it comes to campus safety, there is nothing more important to the UGA police cop wannabes and the Athens/CC police, that there is no shortage of manpower and resources if there is even a possibility of a UGA football player that can be charged and arrested regardless of how minor the charge may be.
I think the idea that police aren't zealous about doing their jobs is ludicrous. Of course, EVERY TIME a University of Georgia player is arrested, we're going to read about it on Dawg Nation, as we should. This is the forum for all things UGA athletics, especially football. But that doesn't mean that arresting UGA athletes is the ONLY thing that UGA and Athens police do. I'm sure the Clarke County jail is filled with wide variety of non-UGA athletes. Brinson was wrong. Period. And the police took the steps that they are required -- by law -- to take. Thankfully, the young ladies were not seriously injured and I do hope it works out well for Brinson. But in the meantime, let's hope that 21-year-old men learn not to point objects and projectiles at human beings "for fun." Go Dawgs!
You aren't listening!
Those are the questions being raised. How many other students, athletes and non-athletes are participating in this activity...Water pistol shooring? Is it a fad that is going around and have there been others "charged" with it? If so,, what is the ratio of Students to Student-Athletes? Why do the UGA/CC Police feel the need to engage in a manhunt over what is essentially a water ballooning that leaves a red mark?
Nobody is saying Brinson was even remotely in the right. We just lack perspective. And, society in general, today, seems content in demonizing kids that act irrationally, without adding perspective and ALL THE FACTS. See Nick Sandmann. Successfully sued CNN and others over that sort of conclusion-jumping.
I think all ya'll commenters on this piece need to go get a life.
Sometimes younger folks make bad decisions. When they do there is often a resulting disciplinary action associated with their discovery. Here's hoping he learns a lesson and moves forward in a more productive and safe manner
I don't believe this is a case of not listening. I believe yours is a case of looking to excuse illegal behavior. Who cares if it is a fad? It is still illegal. Basically, your argument is "but they did it so I should be able to". In that case, no player should ever be arrested for assault or DUI because someone else did it, too. I mean, it is a college so it likely happens a lot. I guess we should excuse all of them. They didn't hurt anyone. Never mind the fact that they COULD hurt someone. What if he wasn't caught and arrested and did it again? This time he actually hurts someone. The arrest is not just to catch but also to deter.
The point was also made that, why would we read about the general population on the Dawg forum? I don't think I have read a single story about all the late night partying students that have been arrested for bad judgements on this forum. They are not bad kids, they just made a bad decision. They do it, we just don't get it reported here because it has nothing to do with UGA athletics. You want general population? Read Online Athens.
This isn't Nick Sandmann. Brinson was identified and he admitted it. Not a jump to conclusion. An actual fact.
OK I will readily say that what he done was Totally and Completely Wrong !! Wrong is never right. And Yes there should have and Are consequences to his actions. He made a Very boneheaded and Wrong decision. And Law Enforcement did their jobs. An incident was called in to them, they investigated, charges were pressed, they arrested him. That’s their job and they did it. BUT I just Wish that it hadn’t got That far. I wish that all the things that took place would have went just as it did Except I wish the young ladies had Not pressed charges, and that Law Enforcement would have chewed him up one side and down the other Detained him ( detain is totally different from a Formal arrest) for one night in the drunk tank with all the weekend Loons in there which would be a scary thing for a young guy like him, AND made him issue a Full apology to the young ladies And publicly to the University Of GA. That would have been in my humble view sufficient punishment in this case. Oh and Kirby give him Real internal team discipline as well. I get that the young ladies exercised their rights, that’s not in question. And in many ways I understand Why they did. I just wish they could have and would have been a little more forgiving. Lastly now that I have much more of the details than when this first came out. Sticking Anything that Resembles a gun out your car window and aiming it at somebody is a great way to end up in the morgue !! There is Tons of tension in this country now. Crime is Sky high !! Violence is Sky high !! Murder, Assault, Assault with deadly weapons, Rape, Sexual Assault, Kidnapping, ALL Sky high !! You can get killed pulling pranks like this. In my initial take when this first came out I was WRONG !! Very wrong !! And I admit it. I Wrongly thought he got out of the car and shot someone with one of those water guns with the big tank on it that you pump up like a souped up water gun. And I originally thought Wow this is a big deal about Nothing !! Well that’s what I get for 1) Not waiting until all the facts were out 2) Jumping to conclusions 3) Not trying to see Both sides of the issue. So I’m sorry I made those knee jerk assessments and reactions. In this country, this world we live in today you sure better STOP and THINK before you DO !! Though a decision can have harmless Intent it can really, really cost you depending on all the circumstances !!