Posted on 11/30/2007 9:35:13 AM PST by khnyny
Not only that, but most burglars go for easier marks than a big isolated house that’s almost certainly protected by an alarm.
Who said nothing was taken.
Every room had been rummaged. Sean Taylor wasn’t there to report on what HAD been taken and the knife may not have been ‘carefully’ placed on the bed at all but left on it after attempts to pry open the safe.
As for all these attempts to slam the character of Taylor afterwards, by ALL (and I do mean ALL) accounts he had left whatever it was he had to leave behind. There is a very big difference between, “someone from his past killed him”
By the way, Taylor was damn near immediately on the ground and non-responsive after being shot. Why not deliver a killing blow if it was a ‘set up?’ This looks far more like a botched attempt, maybe even to GET Taylor while he was there but unprepared for him showing up with a huge blade in his hand and firing to cover their escape.
Phillip Buchannon, who I have not heard linked to any real activity, was tied up and threatened with death and he STRONGLY believes it was friends of his that set him up.
IF you are not familiar with the culture some face, unfortunately even friends that you don’t ‘know’ are into anything seriously criminal can betray you due to jealousy or resentment or you’re separation once you figure they’re not good for you.
Not at all. I’ve seen posts on this very forum that mentioned very high-priced homes being targeted for break-ins and worse, people being the victim of home invasions. One was either a former or current Att-General.
I’ve also seen posts on other boards that talked about break-ins in proximity to this area.
Also, when it comes to ‘rich houses,’ a known NFL star’s house is likely to have more and better of what a burglar would be looking for.
Wow, they’re getting bold these days.
Not a bloody knife, as far as I know but a knife.
The saddest thing is that if Taylor had done about a hundred other things, including taking everyone to DC and hiring a temporary security agency or having a shotgun, we wouldn’t be sitting here now.
He did close the storm shutters on his windows but because of a relative coming and going did not arm the alarm system.
Indeed.
What has been sad in this case is to hear the media paint a story (even black journalists) of how ‘unsurprised’ they were and how this alleged ‘past’ of Taylor’s had caught up with him, without even waiting for his body to turn cold.
He was in his home, sleeping with his girlfriend of 7 years (i’m sure there were ‘breaks’ in there, but that’s still far more impressive than most athletes) and his child and if he had not put his past behind him, one would think he would be armed with a gun and not a knife.
When JOE GIBBS says you’re going to every chapel service and every single one of your teammates says you’ve found a strong purpose in your life (not that he was regarded as ‘bad’ before) then I’m going to believe that.
Even the one lone incident in his past involved property stolen from him. OF course, the people whose word was being taken as gospel about the ‘brandishing’ a firearm are criminals themselves who were stopped with a STOLEN ATV (somehow eluded prosecution-—why might that be—to get the DA big name status for nailing a celeb? the same DA that LOST HIS JOB during that trial) later on.
It got so bad that ESPN (briefly, thankfully) said “even his Pro Bowl appearance was marred by his hit on a punter (running a fake punt.)”
When firing your agents and getting a DUI case (that was dismissed due to conduct of the officer) constitutes ‘thuggery’ I’d say people are reaching.
I’m not meaning to say that he didn’t have questionable associations in his past but there is a difference between the sad realization that someone wanted to hurt him for ‘leaving’ or for his ‘success’ and acting as if he deserved it.
This isn’t some drug dealer shot on the street in a turf war or during a bad deal.
He was in his house, minding his business.
As has been pointed out by more than a few, the reactions to what’s happened to athletes like Antoine Walker, Eddy Curry, Dunta Robinson (home invasions) and Paul Pierce (private party—stabbed outside the club) among many others demonstrates that because of SOME bad apples, any young black man is automatically ‘deserving’ of their fate. People actually blame Walker and others for having nice watches or cars—as if rich white people don’t have those too? Is their murder justified as well?
Exactly. I hope it didn’t come off as though I was buying into it myself. I’ve always been a fan of Sean Taylor’s, and was rather disgusted myself at the kneejerk blaming of the victim I heard shortly after the shooting.
Yeah. I had heard a bloody knife early on on Fox, but that was a while ago so apoligize if I either heard incorrectly or just incorrectly remembered. Still just the knife alone would scare the heck our of me and get me to act to protect myself and loved ones. Thanks for the correction.
I have been listen to “redskins radio- 730AM” and they are beginning to get a little creepy about this. They seemed to be obsessed about how all of this will affect the team on Sunday. I understand that people think like this, and it is human nature to do so, but to spend hour upon hours is a bit creepy to me.
Yup—that was me. It was AG Robert Shevin, who was the AG at the time—mid-1980s. He's now deceased by natural causes.
"...I’ve also seen posts on other boards that talked about break-ins in proximity to this area....
Miami-Dade County has home invasions every day. The number went up after the Mariel Boatlift of Cubans, and increased again with the influx of Haitians. (Who usually preyed on other Haitians, and used torture).
Miami-Dade County probably has at least 20 break-ins a day. The number has probably gone down. Once residents have seen what Liberal judges don't do with any caught offender (who gets a lesson in burglary capture-avoidance techniques), plus the additional insult of damage home done by the police armed with the black fingerprint powder that gets over EVERYTHING!
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In all fairness, what else are they going to talk about?
What do the remaining 31 teams talk about week to week?
No idea. The Dolphins don’t have their own radio network, they just license off the rights to broadcast the games and have the radio station carry a one hour show every night. The topic of the team dominates the radio stations anyway, so I guess they don’t have to do anything extra.
Well, looks like they’re getting confessions.
No “past” coming back to haunt Sean, which would have been contrary to what we know about him anyways. Fact is, he was a victim of a home invasion just like anyone else. He was killed defending his family and the sports world lost one of its most talented athletes. And sadly, he was just getting started and coming into his own as a player and person.
The killers are all Florida Christian private school kids (well 2-3 of them are) and have MySpace pages of course, glorifying every pathetic and pathological stereotype of young black people. Which is just great...
Looks like you’d be wrong.
Sadly among some, actually having something in this world creates enemies.
They’re about to get confessions at least from one of these guys and you will see.
When I hear ‘enemies’ in THIS context, I think of someone who did something bad to ‘make them’ and it begins to sound like someone is trying to assign blame on Taylor.
Think of this like the Israeli-Palestinian thing: “Cycle of violence” is a moral equivalence game and I think what a lot of people have been saying with regard to this case sounds more like blurring the line between victim and perpetrator and that isn’t right.
I’m not saying you mean this but it’s how a lot of jackasses have meant it and I’m tired of hearing about it. Even if Sean had NO record (and he really didnt have one and he was NEVER in trouble at Miami, not even ‘secretly’) people would still say what they say because of his background. And you know what i mean by that.
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http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...endid=251964564
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One of the scum has a friend who has commented recently (C Dub is the page) and on HER page she talks about the crackas having him and “they better not give my brother no 100 years.”
Uh, why not bitch? It’s better than he deserves.
No accountability, no morality, no discernment or taste. We are truly breeding generations of sociopaths. Not all need be ‘thugs’ shooting innocents and each other. Some will just run you over and not stop, others will steal from you or whatever.
And it has definitely crossed ‘racial’ and even class boundaries.
Funny, all I know Taylor for is spitting in Michael Pittman’s face.
A Buccaneers fan...
I have one word for you...THUG.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs05/news/story?id=2285708
Taylor’s tragic end does not surprise me.
No kidding, he was such a role model...
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs05/news/story?id=2285708
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