Posted on 11/08/2017 2:49:00 AM PST by C19fan
If standard practices are applied, the three UCLA basketball players – including LiAngelo Ball – arrested Tuesday in mainland China under suspicion of shoplifting face between three and 10 years in prison if convicted, according to Chinese lawyers who briefed Yahoo Sports on the applicable laws. The sentencing guidelines could shift depending on the amount that the Chinese could prove was allegedly stolen. Authorities believe the players shoplifted from a Louis Vuitton store near the UCLA team hotel outside of Shanghai. The Bruins are in China to play Georgia Tech on Saturday in the season opener. The players were arrested Tuesday after local law enforcement came to the team hotel and questioned both UCLA and Georgia Tech players before taking the three away. ESPN first reported the arrests.
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The timing, right before Trump arrives, is certainly interesting.
BTW, Ball’s father ought to shut his yap. He’s not helping the situation. Which, I gather, is normal for this guy.
good... i hope it's a learning experience
Why couldn’t this happen to NBA lowlifes?
His big mouth dad might have just cooked his soy-sauce chicken by saying “It ain’t no big deal!” right before the press conference.
The headline just makes me LMFAO anticipating the racist head explosion by his father should that headline come true. I’d never make it as a State Dept. functionary if I had to deal with this situation because I’d be asking the Chinese just how far up under the prison they could put the kid.
I pray for the day when grown men turn off these games played by thugs and racists.
Even though I went to UCLA back in the ‘60s during the glory years, I haven’t watched them in years. Don’t even care about looking up weekly scores.
Too much of importance going on in the world to give a rat’s ass about a bunch of NBA thugs in training.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
The Chinese don’t believe in affirmative action and won’t coddle the race of professional victims. Let them howl and the sound will fall on deaf ears.
Let ‘em rot.
Amen, brother. I’ve enjoyed sports as much as the next guy but today the sullen, nasty behavior of these athletes has turned me off. My biggest sports enjoyment now is when I read about declining attendance or the arrest of punks like these kids.
I am actually wondering how many times they were warned......
The Race Card isn't accepted in China?
That's just...racist!/sarc
Maybe they should face the court and kneel?
AP reports latest comment from LaVar Ball:
“I always knew my son could lead the NCAA in steals!”
— LaVar Ball —
“BBB: Big Burglar Brand shoes”
I rooting for 3 years. Let the thug rot while his career disappears in a Chinese prison.
Maybe, just maybe, some other thug will learn the lesson that acting black is a recipe for disaster. Maybe if they joined American culture and started behaving (acting white) they could live better, safer, more prosperous lives.
Who am I kidding. the thugs will say that he’s being oppressed by the man and they’ll riot and kill the local Asian grocer in their own neighborhood. Then they’ll complain that their no shopping in the hood and they have to go miles just to find groceries.
So, they’re all thugs and racists?
“I am actually wondering how many times they were warned......”
Probably many times.
The problem is the athletes have gotten away with so much back home that the warnings meant nothing to them.
Their parents and coaches covered for them in HS and college so they think rules don’t apply to them in the wider world.
As my dad said “Hard heads make for soft asses”.
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