But has Watson had a trial? If the accusations are credible enough he should be held in jail, given a speedy trial, then be punished or let free. This holding a person's life in limbo without a trial should not be supported by freedom loving Americans.
I hate it when colleges do it to Christian and conservative students over false accusations without a trial. And I hate it when institutions like the NFL does it to a player without a trial. Even if the accusations turn out to be true, when a major entity like the NFL (major in the lives of the players) acts like this before a trail it does nothing but encourage future people to cry wolf hoping for settlements. It then bleeds out into other institutions (even non football related or non-sports related institutions will have more false accusations slung at people who might give a payoff to settle to have their lives restored).
I don’t think anyone is accusing DeShaun Watson of a crime, he was sued by 20-25 women who were all brought in to give him massages, allegedly Watson took liberties with the women who all sued him civilly.
The Houston Texans were also part of the suit, the Texans recently settled their part of the lawsuits. Watson has also settled all the lawsuits.
Watson was held out all of last year by the Texans pending the outcome of all the lawsuits filed by the women.
Now that all the lawsuits have been settled, the NFL is trying to decide what type of punishment they are going to dish out to Watson.
The judge involved in this case was brought in to be an impartial arbitrator to decide the punishment.