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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

When do they start complaining about White Chinese privilege?


41 posted on 11/13/2017 9:58:34 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: 11th_VA

I guess China doesn’t accept black privilege. Where’s Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton?


42 posted on 11/13/2017 9:59:15 AM PST by Dapper 26
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To: Ezekiel

The Ball is in China’s Court.....................


43 posted on 11/13/2017 9:59:33 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: mewzilla

No worries and no offense taken. No snark is bad snark, especially as it relates to these creeps.


44 posted on 11/13/2017 10:00:04 AM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: 11th_VA

So in the meantime, who is paying the hotel bill? That can’t be cheap.


45 posted on 11/13/2017 10:00:36 AM PST by Bernard (If we could tax Stupid, Congress could balance the budget)
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To: 11th_VA
"the situation will likely take “a week or two” to be resolved."

It takes time to get money from offshored numbered accounts and then transferred to front accounts so that taxes don't have to be paid.

46 posted on 11/13/2017 10:02:07 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Red Badger

Imagine the fun with these names over there.

RiAngero Barr

Nobody gonna recognize him when they get through with him.


47 posted on 11/13/2017 10:03:04 AM PST by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: dfwgator
"Maybe we need the NFL to schedule some games in China."

BINGO!

You have won today's internet.

They wouldn't dare take a knee when the International is played.

48 posted on 11/13/2017 10:10:26 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: 11th_VA

Not sure what is more ridiculous - the NCAA has teams opening their season in China or these privileged thugs to think they can away with shop lifting in a Communist country. Not that I care too much but I wonder if the school bothered to brief the team before the trip on Chinese laws and their justice system.


49 posted on 11/13/2017 10:15:21 AM PST by capydick (“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.)
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To: 11th_VA

This clown has apparently never seen the show Locked Up Abroad on NatGeo. Prison in a foreign country is someplace you do NOT want to be.


50 posted on 11/13/2017 10:19:36 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks 11th_VA.
...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.

51 posted on 11/13/2017 10:23:10 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Responsibility2nd

No mention of the daughters in the WNBA - Lashonda LaMeequa, LaQuanda or LaDindu?


52 posted on 11/13/2017 10:23:18 AM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: 11th_VA

I would assume if one was shoplifting one would not want to be conspicuous. These three guys were probably the tallest people in the Chinese district.


53 posted on 11/13/2017 10:26:54 AM PST by freedomlover
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To: capydick

Not that I care too much but I wonder if the school bothered to brief the team before the trip on Chinese laws and their justice system.

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That would be racist. To assume some teens would shoplift?

Uh-uh uh. Cant even THINK that.


54 posted on 11/13/2017 10:34:20 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Enterprise; All

The guys should be able to speak fluent Chinese by the time they get back.


Wait until one of these guys tries to back talk a 5’4” guard.


55 posted on 11/13/2017 10:34:56 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: bkopto
All blacks?

I would have guessed Methodists or Amish with their names.

These guys could be in some serious trouble if the Chinese authorities have them shoplifting on video tape.

They won't be kneeling anytime soon during the national anthem to protest how bad it is for blacks in America, after they spend a few years in the Chinese pokey.

If they get off on this shoplifting incident and get to come back home, I would be getting down on my knees when I landed in the States, to thank God that I was lucky enough to live in America.

56 posted on 11/13/2017 10:40:48 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: marktwain

They’ll only do it once.


57 posted on 11/13/2017 10:41:11 AM PST by Enterprise (Do away with all symbols of past slavery. Start with the Democrat Party.)
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To: mewzilla

“Did you know CA decriminalized shoplifting last year.”

Seriously? Misdemeanor? Or just let them go without charging at all?


58 posted on 11/13/2017 10:46:54 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: OpusatFR

Most stores no longer prosecute as it costs too much.


59 posted on 11/13/2017 10:49:45 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Huskrrrr

“Every team member should be required to read John Wooden’s “A game plan for life.” Assuming, of course, they can read.”

A 2 semester course? Come on make it a 2 year course at least to fulfill to stringent academic requirements of the scholarship.


60 posted on 11/13/2017 11:02:22 AM PST by Lent
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