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UCLA Frosh LiAngelo Ball Remains In China On Shoplifting Charges As Team Departs
deadline.com ^ | November 12, 2017 | by Bruce Haring

Posted on 11/13/2017 9:00:40 AM PST by 11th_VA

The UCLA basketball team is heading home to Los Angeles from China without star freshman LiAngelo Ball, who is accused of shoplifting and is being detained. And it may be a while before Ball rejoins them, as new evidence in his case has surfaced.

ESPN is reporting that there is surveillance footage of Ball and fellow UCLA freshmen players Jalen Hill and Cody Riley shoplifting from three stores inside a retail center near the team hotel in Hangzhou, China. The players have spoken with police and are currently confined to their hotel while the investigation continues.

China’s justice system moves slowly, but its conviction rates are high (as in 99 percent for shoplifting offenses) and the penalties are often stiff. In this case, the players could face up to 10 years in prison.

However, ESPN claims that the situation will likely take “a week or two” to be resolved. Ball is part of the fabled basketball family that includes father LaVar (whose Ball in the Family reality show airs on Facebook and who is regularly parodied by Kenan Thompson on Saturday Night Live); Los Angeles Lakers point guard Lonzo Ball; and high school basketball sensation LaMelo Ball, who is already committed to UCLA.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: china; sports; thugculture; ucla
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To: 11th_VA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrz_qowIIbQ

Some cogent advice from Sammy Davis Jr.


21 posted on 11/13/2017 9:27:31 AM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: mewzilla
Only way I’ll be amazed is if UCLA cuts them loose.

UCLA should tell them they're dismissed from the team, and missed school work will be considered an inexcusable absence since it was due to criminal activity, and they can make their own way back (if they choose), none of which is likely to happen.

UCLA shouldn't pay for return tickets back to L.A. I looked up the fare expecting the one-way fare to be $2000-3000. I was astonished to find that Delta offers a ticket at $381.

22 posted on 11/13/2017 9:27:46 AM PST by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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To: Pining_4_TX

“Send him to North Korea so he can see true oppression.”

Just what I was thinking.


23 posted on 11/13/2017 9:32:23 AM PST by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: 11th_VA
When you are a star basketball player for UCLA, your brother is in the NBA, your father is insane, and you live in a jurisdiction where the police, I'm told, don't even respond to a shoplifting report, what's a few sunglasses?

These kids live a privileged life that doesn't require them to live by the rules the rest of us do. They are about to be introduced to reality.

24 posted on 11/13/2017 9:33:52 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Islam delenda est.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

I hope each one gets the full 10 and serves it. So sick of idiot criminals getting a pass because they can play a stupid game.


25 posted on 11/13/2017 9:35:39 AM PST by 1malumprohibitum
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To: 11th_VA
Two of these idiots are 6'-10" and the third is 6'-5".
I've never shoplifted anything in my life, but inconspicuousness should be part of the plan and that's not going to work with giants in a foreign land. The stupidity here is weapons grade.
26 posted on 11/13/2017 9:36:26 AM PST by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: 11th_VA
China’s justice system moves slowly, but its conviction rates are high (as in 99 percent for shoplifting offenses) and the penalties are often stiff. In this case, the players could face up to 10 years in prison.

I hope, if nothing else, these dimwit lowlifes learn something from this. They have shamed themselves, UCLA, and our country.

27 posted on 11/13/2017 9:36:49 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: 1malumprohibitum

Maybe we need the NFL to schedule some games in China.


28 posted on 11/13/2017 9:37:24 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: 11th_VA
ESPN claims that the situation will likely take “a week or two” to be resolved.

Uh huh. I'm thinking "claims" means "hopes". And if he's hoping that "resolved" means "put on a plane to LAX", he better brace for the possibility that "resolved" in China could have any number of meanings, and associated timeframes, from "formally charged" to "put on trial" to "sentenced" to "jailed".

29 posted on 11/13/2017 9:38:02 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: 11th_VA

Great player, season hadn’t started yet and already leads the team in steals.


30 posted on 11/13/2017 9:38:15 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
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To: 11th_VA

Write if you get work!


31 posted on 11/13/2017 9:38:23 AM PST by clintonh8r (I've been banned from TheHill.com. #Proud)
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To: dainbramaged
The stupidity here is weapons grade.

Indeed.

32 posted on 11/13/2017 9:39:45 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Responsibility2nd; Red Badger
Ball is part of the fabled basketball family that includes father LaVar (whose Ball in the Family reality show airs on Facebook and who is regularly parodied by Kenan Thompson on Saturday Night Live); Los Angeles Lakers point guard Lonzo Ball; and high school basketball sensation LaMelo Ball, who is already committed to UCLA.

Somebody sure dropped the ball in this family. Now folks are having a ball at their expense.

33 posted on 11/13/2017 9:40:50 AM PST by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: 11th_VA

Dat wunt no shopsliftins. Dat wud entitlement!


34 posted on 11/13/2017 9:41:07 AM PST by clintonh8r (I've been banned from TheHill.com. #Proud)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Let me check my handbook of Made-up Names.

Maybe we should add: Loosey Ball

35 posted on 11/13/2017 9:43:53 AM PST by DeFault User
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To: Ezekiel

I guess no one ever told them that shop-lifting in China is frowned upon...................


36 posted on 11/13/2017 9:46:25 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: 2banana

Maybe his credit card would have been? He should have tried it, but I doubt that actually paying for something did not occur to this entitled rich kid.


37 posted on 11/13/2017 9:48:18 AM PST by The Deplorable Miss Lemon (If illegals are here to do the jobs Americans won't do why are so many illegals on welfare?)
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To: Red Badger

They must have thought that even the laws in China are fake.

In order to bounce right back, they’ll have to learn to roll with it.


38 posted on 11/13/2017 9:52:24 AM PST by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: clintonh8r

Write if you get work!

____________________________________

lolol

Slip a note in an I-Phone headed for the US.


39 posted on 11/13/2017 9:54:21 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: 11th_VA

UCLA’s basketball team was still going to suck, regardless of the detainment.


40 posted on 11/13/2017 9:58:30 AM PST by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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