SantaClaraHawk
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knownone":32q5jjwy said:I'm not speaking with regards to Richard. I'm speaking in regards to you and your perspective. I grew up in a crappy neighborhood, and this type of thing happened just about every weekend. Now I live in the nice part of town, and kids listening to music too loud draws the ire of everyone in the neighborhood.Sgt. Largent":32q5jjwy said:knownone":32q5jjwy said:It depends on your perspective. This is benign if you grew up in a violent neighborhood, a large city, or have experienced a lot of violent behavior first hand.Sgt. Largent":32q5jjwy said:Benign is getting drunk and leaving a couple regrettable angry voicemails, or firing off a bunch of angry texts.
Crashing your car, trying to fight someone, trying to run from the police and getting a K9 set loose on you because you won't cooperate? Not benign.
Is it a sign of addiction or cry for help? Idk bout that, but it's definitely a sign that Richard's got some anger issues and sense of entitlement.
If Richard had a history of this type of behavior, I'd agree with you. But even though he grew up on Compton, he grew up a very loving stable two parent household, went to Stanford and has spent his entire adult life living in mansions in affluent areas.
So no, I don't buy that this is benign to him.
My point is what's benign to one person is extreme to another person. It's obviously not healthy behavior, and it's certainly concerning, but to a lot of us, it's normalized to a varying degree which diminishes its impact.
The ring-cam video of Richard is the kind of behavior he'd be against at Blanket Foundation in Compton. It's all about the grades and sports and ABOVE ALL it is about not being in jail.
His own behavior would be what he's already said is unacceptable in Compton. But as long as he's going to be with the NFLPA, "pillar of the community" and all this, he and his family can't just impart to the community that he or they were having a bad day and that's the end of it.
On all aspects, his interests are best served if he just checks in to a rehab tied to an actual hospital. There could be a neurological or other condition going on, for one. And if he's drinking two bottles of hard liquor by himself then maybe he needs to be physically tapered down with Ativan. Which jail authorities frequently do.
If there's gonna be a divorce or child custody fight, now there is at least some wiggle room if you go to rehab with the media and even the courts.