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"They've been targeting him for three years now."
sportsillustrated.cnn.com — Still in disbelief of his childhood friend's shooting death, Arizona Cardinals cornerback Antrel Rolle vowed Wednesday to make sure Sean Taylor is remembered. He added he did not believe the killing was part of a burglary gone sour, and that Taylor had many enemies on the streets of Miami.
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- mikehrp, on 11/30/2007, -16/+6^^^^^^^ So all blacks are thugs? ^^^^^^^^^
- Jimbob200, on 11/30/2007, -6/+9Statistically? Yeah, you're more likely to be shot to death by a black man than a white. Sure it's an ugly generalization, but it IS a generalization, which people use all the time.
- demonsnake69, on 11/30/2007, -11/+3I love it when people try to defend their bigotry by bring up random stats. Ya'know, I personally don't care if anyone is a racist, but at least have the balls to admit it.
- tacklebox, on 11/30/2007, -2/+8Not really random stats. Its a huge problem for the black community. Lets just continue to ignore it and call it random. O.o
- Ajajadude, on 11/30/2007, -3/+4It's worked so well up to this point!
If you share this viewpoint and you're white, you're a racist. If you share this viewpoint and you're black, you're a sellout. There's no winning... - Jimbob200, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1Well, this is one that's backed by facts.
- Ajajadude, on 11/30/2007, -3/+4It's worked so well up to this point!
- tacklebox, on 11/30/2007, -2/+8Not really random stats. Its a huge problem for the black community. Lets just continue to ignore it and call it random. O.o
- capiCrimm, on 11/30/2007, -6/+2statistically most statistics are made up. So generalizing, your statistic is pointless.
- RAEP, on 11/30/2007, -3/+1FLAWED LOGIC.
You probably made that up, seeing as most statistics are made up.
Oh ***** there's no escaping it.- capiCrimm, on 11/30/2007, -2/+1perhaps the people who actually understood my point got stuck in the infinite loop and couldn't digg me up?
- RAEP, on 11/30/2007, -3/+1FLAWED LOGIC.
- Midvicious, on 11/30/2007, -2/+1Absolutely false. You are statistically more likely to be shot by a white person. It's common sense considering the factors. Stop making up stats based upon xenophobia and rap videos, you dumb *****.
- Jimbob200, on 11/30/2007, -2/+1Am I really lying?
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/race.htm
Total Offenders by Race: White, 48 percent, Black, 52 percent, other, 2 percent.
Think a little first please. As soon as you get past the "omg wtf what a jerk", we can have a discussion. - Midvicious, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1Your statistics are based on an already corrupt system. Try thinking wholly and completely before rambling thoughtless numbers. Have a nice day.
- Jimbob200, on 11/30/2007, -2/+1Am I really lying?
- demonsnake69, on 11/30/2007, -11/+3I love it when people try to defend their bigotry by bring up random stats. Ya'know, I personally don't care if anyone is a racist, but at least have the balls to admit it.
- cambob76, on 11/30/2007, -5/+3He didn't say he was a thug because he was black. If he came from a rough background, should we be totally shocked?
- Midvicious, on 11/30/2007, -1/+2Coming from a rough background makes you a thug? Where did all the intelligent Diggers go?
- plizard, on 11/30/2007, -4/+2in new orleans - yes!
- Midvicious, on 11/30/2007, -3/+1All whites are Klan members.
- Jimbob200, on 11/30/2007, -6/+9Statistically? Yeah, you're more likely to be shot to death by a black man than a white. Sure it's an ugly generalization, but it IS a generalization, which people use all the time.
- gnorth75, on 11/30/2007, -19/+1Soviet -
You're an idiot man! Anyone that makes light of a senseless killing deserves the same fate - Razoso, on 11/30/2007, -11/+3Taylor made the mistake of believing he could run from his past.
- Midvicious, on 11/30/2007, -1/+1Just like Rob Lowe. *sigh*
- whatthefu, on 11/30/2007, -2/+31He was building a new life and maturing and that was all ripped away from him. You can't possibly not think that's really sad.
- markgl, on 11/30/2007, -1/+1you or I don't know what was going on in his life. so you can say that for sure. no can say he was a changed man or he was still acting like some street hood.
- JDenigma, on 12/01/2007, -0/+1You obviously have no knowledge of Sean Taylors background as a person other than the negative things you've been told about him by the media outside of Washington. If you did and had been paying attention to all the clues and evidence that have been coming out about his background, you would think twice about what you said.
Why don't you say this same thing or question his character to Clinton Portis, Greg Williams, even Joe Gibbs or the rest of his teammates. Many in the Redskins organization some of whom are very reputable in what they say including everyone who knew him presently and from the past, has said nothing but nice things about him and have clearly spelled out that he was a decent man who was portrayed unfairly in a bad light by the media just because of some slip ups and immature things from his past. So he was charged with some "aggravated assault" with a gun and so he had a spitting incident. Big ***** deal! Not to mention that his gun charge was related to a dispute he had over some stolen ATV's. Maybe he didn't handle it in the best way, but I can't say for sure whether I would of done the same thing as him or not. If some punks really were causing him trouble and stole his vehicles, can you really blame him not to mention that it was these punks who fired shots into his car. I'm not condoning how Sean handled the situation, but it's easy for us to be morally righteous in condemning a man who was dealing with some tough situations early in life that weren't all of his making. Young people make mistakes and then mature. At least he never murdered anyone much like a certain former football star. Sure he had some foibles from his past, but he was not the ghetto gangster type of black that all people think of when it comes to this. He grew up attending Gulliver Preparatory high school in a suburb of Miami and it was not like an inner city ghetto high school. He grew up with a police chief as a father. Sean did not have a sordid history of getting into trouble like a gang banger would have. All those who knew him presently and from his past while growing up unanimously talk about him being a soft spoken mild mannered guy who was kind and friendly towards fans and was always good with children.
You can try to say that they're just all people who are being emotional and making things up and embellishing things about him because he passed away, but there are many genuine sounding, credible people who are coming out and vouching for his character as being anything but what was portrayed of him by the media. The kind words about him by those who knew him have been unanimous. He was snake bitten by the media so people never really got to see the real decent side of him through the media, but much clues and evidence have been coming out about his true decency.
Don't say that it can't be possible at all for us to know what was going on in his life because there is much that has come out on him that provides a pretty good indication. Yes, he made some mistakes, but the reaction and judgmentalism by people are out of proportion to the triviality of the mistakes he made in the greater scheme of things. It's not like he truly led a gang banging life. He may have had some run-ins and associations with that side of things when growing up but from everything that is told, it doesn't sound like he had that kind of gang banging lifestyle while growing up. So the man wasn't perfect. Does that mean he deserved what he got? Are you gleeful and callous in cheering on the death of someone because in your eyes through stereotypes, you see him as having been a "thug"?
Regardless of how he may have been in the past, the guy was really growing up and maturing and many who knew him have said that his newborn daughter played a significant role in his growing up.
Let me put it this way, the story of Sean Taylor with his life and its abrupt, tragic ending while trying to get away from that hard life and defending his family in the process is much akin to the story of the character "Ricky" in the movie "Boyz in the Hood". It's sad.
Think about that one.
- JDenigma, on 12/01/2007, -0/+1You obviously have no knowledge of Sean Taylors background as a person other than the negative things you've been told about him by the media outside of Washington. If you did and had been paying attention to all the clues and evidence that have been coming out about his background, you would think twice about what you said.
- markgl, on 11/30/2007, -1/+1you or I don't know what was going on in his life. so you can say that for sure. no can say he was a changed man or he was still acting like some street hood.
- xnike2livx, on 11/30/2007, -0/+16These NFL superstars are surrounded by all this hype and media and we only can really believe what we see or read. But, it is really interesting to see how Sean Taylor lived his life in the words of one if his best friends. Antrel knew that Sean wasn't going down the right path earlier in his life, but he also recognized that he was trying to change. You always hear about these situations where people try and escape their past. It is like escaping a gang, it is nearly impossible in some ways. And in no way do I find it surprising per say, that he was killed in such a way. But hearing the man that Sean could've become, it really is quite heartbreaking.
- ekravchenko, on 11/30/2007, -12/+3nah, he wasn't targeted he was shot by an intruder and the bullet raptured one of the arteries, which caused him to die from bleeding
- URnotheonly1, on 11/30/2007, -16/+2Karma is a bitch.
- AshamedAmerican, on 11/30/2007, -16/+3FTA: "I'm going to keep his name alive," Rolle said. "Every time I make a play, I'm definitely going to mention him. I'm going to represent my 21 as his 21."
I dunno, this kinda makes it sound like he's trying to use this to promote himself.- xnike2livx, on 11/30/2007, -2/+7You clearly don't really know football. Antrel Rolle is already a great player in the NFL. He nearly had 3 INT TD's the other week. Respecting one of your best friend's memories is not self-promotion.
- malacai, on 11/30/2007, -7/+4AshamedAmerican, why the name? What is it about your insecurities that makes you identify yourself with that in your online life? Don't be a victim and lose the swastika while you are thinking about it.
- quaxon, on 11/30/2007, -3/+2Any american who knows what is and has been going on this country for the past decade should be ashamed, atleast if they have a conscience. I wish more people would be vocal about it.
- malacai, on 11/30/2007, -1/+3An anonymous digg persona is the way? Bold!
- quaxon, on 11/30/2007, -3/+2Any american who knows what is and has been going on this country for the past decade should be ashamed, atleast if they have a conscience. I wish more people would be vocal about it.
- jpie05, on 11/30/2007, -0/+11The weirdest thing about this whole investigation is the wavering on whether or not this was a burglary gone wrong. It seems clear to me that this was premeditated murder considering Taylor's house was broken into 8 days earlier and a kitchen knife was left on his bed. Was anything stolen during either break-in? No, just a threat the first time and a shooting the second.
Not to mention the fact that former friends say he lived fearful of attacks in Miami for years. - JohnnyKinder, on 11/30/2007, -1/+17I think Herm Edwards said it best - "When you lose a young man like that, in the prime of his life, it sets you back, you think about the things you really feel bad about, and you figure out, 'You know what? That's really not too important in the grand scheme of it."
...Black, White, Asian, Mexican whatever, a twenty four year old lost his life in his prime, I think we should all take a good look at ourselves and be thankful for what we have..... My 2 cents - ekin09, on 11/30/2007, -1/+11His past definitely caught up to him but I think he was killed accidentally. Who shoots to kill by aiming for the leg? Sure it eventually lead to his death but the intruder was there to scare him and could not have meant to kill him otherwise he would have executed him... imho. Anyway, It is really unfortunate this had to happen, RIP.
- jpie05, on 11/30/2007, -1/+9Well, the guy shot twice and missed completely once. It was probably dark, rushed, and the guy likely wasn't a trained marksman
- ekin09, on 11/30/2007, -0/+2You are probably right..
- Iconoclast25, on 12/06/2007, -0/+2The shooter is 17. It isn't even legal for him to have a handgun. He probably knows barely enough to load it and pull the trigger - it is quite possible he'd never fired it before. Pure bad luck he hit the femoral artery, but with some idiot like that, he could have shot himself, one of the other three perps, the baby or the ceiling.
- Midvicious, on 11/30/2007, -1/+3What past did Taylor have? Sounds like it wasn't much, just being in a bad neighborhood does not make you "bad". Sounds like something as petty as envy came around and got him. I suppose time will tell if and when the details surface.
- ekin09, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1 I do not mean he was bad person, I believe he was a good person but those bad people from his past found him , unfortunately.
- avengingturnip, on 11/30/2007, -3/+2If he was living scared he probably kept a Glock stuck in his front pants waist and it went off as he pulled it out with his finger on the trigger shooting himself in the groin. Before you digg me down, I know someone from a bad neighborhood who knew two guys who accidentally killed themselves that way.
- Treason, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4So did I but than again, we all know everybody on the internet.
- avengingturnip, on 11/30/2007, -3/+1Not on the internet. This is someone I work with. I never would have believed it otherwise. So...don't believe me because I wouldn't.
- TjLAXattack, on 11/30/2007, -1/+2Fine - but the person you work with probably knew those two guys on the internet.
- avengingturnip, on 11/30/2007, -3/+1Not on the internet. This is someone I work with. I never would have believed it otherwise. So...don't believe me because I wouldn't.
- Treason, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4So did I but than again, we all know everybody on the internet.
- wilf_brim, on 12/02/2007, -0/+1You'd be amazed at how many times somebody shoots at somebody with murderous intent and miss, or just graze them. I saw a video a while back (I think on digg) of a traffic stop that went bad. A cop opened up on a suspect at about 10 feet, emptied an entire clip. In broad daylight. And completely missed every shot.
- jpie05, on 11/30/2007, -1/+9Well, the guy shot twice and missed completely once. It was probably dark, rushed, and the guy likely wasn't a trained marksman
- gbombs82, on 11/30/2007, -3/+8he must've been living the past three years in fear, anyone got the story related to the break-in a month prior where the intruder left a steak knife on his bed? this was no burglary despite what the idiot pigs say, sean was a marked man and spent those three years trying to run away from a life many jealous people would not let him escape. i hope he has found peace
- JohnnyKinder, on 11/30/2007, -3/+2At the same time, I don't think even if the cops think it was related to the first break in they would want to let on that they thought so (my friend works for a police department and said that it is very likely that is the case)
- Treason, on 11/30/2007, -2/+2What a coincidence! My friend does too...
- bgraves20, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1Considering his father is the police chief in the city this happened in, i really doubt "the idiot pigs" as you call them, are purposely lying or trying to cover something up.
- JohnnyKinder, on 11/30/2007, -3/+2At the same time, I don't think even if the cops think it was related to the first break in they would want to let on that they thought so (my friend works for a police department and said that it is very likely that is the case)
- Rockarollr, on 11/30/2007, -0/+4I think the truth will eventually surface. The person that did it will tell someone that can't be trusted with confidentiality; someone will feel guilty that they know who did it and they are betraying their former friend (Sean Taylor) by not telling; someone will overhear the killer bragging - or something like that.
I honestly believe the truth will eventually come out - and when it does - the lowlife that did this will pay the price. - encognito, on 11/30/2007, -0/+3Probably killed by some JOE's (Jealous Ones Envy). Some people just can't stand to see other people getting ahead in life while they stay miserable especially in the poor "black" community. Haters abound and they will take your life just because they can't live your life. And it is a sad situation because if you try to "stay down with the hood" chances are you will get caught up and if you try to get away from the hood for simple self-preservation reasons, you are a sellout or worse they will find you and kill you. And it is not like you can go the cops, they are the enemy too.
- dimitrisokolov, on 11/30/2007, -2/+3I don't understand why he didn't have a decent security system? If I were a millionaire I would have bulletproof glass in all windows in my house. I would have bullet proof walls and a big ass steel door to my bedroom and a panic room too. And dude had a machete for protection? WTF? Get a gun homes. That's a dumb as Britney Spears driving around - get a *****' driver you dumb ho. You are rich!
- Barbosa, on 11/30/2007, -0/+2unfortunately felony convictions eliminate the possibility of owning a legal gun,,, I think Mr. Taylor had a previous gun charge and it was likely a felony. Then again, at his age, I'm not confident he could have been convinced to take on a real security detail anyways.
- hellotyler, on 11/30/2007, -1/+2Yeah, because getting a gun on the street is SOOO tough. If you don't carry it around, I don't see why it matters.
- hellotyler, on 11/30/2007, -4/+1Snitches get stitches - or bullet wounds.
- 3leggedHorse, on 11/30/2007, -7/+3 The PSP is better no its not the DS is better and so on. Shut the ***** up people at the amount they cost buy both, and then shut up this childish crap.
- spartan9817, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1Dude, wtf are you talking about? Your comment wasn't even close to being on topic
- spartan9817, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1What's really sad is that, Sean Taylor had a child, what's going to happen if the truth hasn't come out by the time this child is old enough to understand what happened? Will he/she have to go through life thinking his/her father was a gang banger, instead of someone who was really trying to clean up his life for his child?
- c0ld, on 12/01/2007, -1/+0I wasn't surprised.
- JDenigma, on 12/01/2007, -0/+1To those of you who are being overly judgmental and callous in your criticisms of Sean as supposedly being a "thug", you obviously have not researched anything on the man or you've gotten all your info. about him from the recent negative publicity about him in the press outside of Washington. I'm not going to go into detail here to explain why much of that negativity was probably distorted and blown out of proportion. I've already done it before and I'm not going to spend more time on that. Do your own research if you're going to comment about it.
Regardless of all of that, Sean Taylor was not the "gangbanger" and "thug" that people are jumping to conclusions about him over those stereotypes. He had some mistakes in his past from immaturity when growing up, but hey at least he never murdered anyone unlike ummm....I'll leave it at that. If you really follow the details about his past you will see that he was a much different man behind the scenes then we really got a chance to know from the media and that he was learning from his past mistakes and growing up and was a man in love with his child who was trying to escape his past. Anyway, like I said I'm not going to go into detail in this post. I'll leave it at that. I don't feel the need to make my case here.
If you're a reactionary who is just going to judge him based upon his few slip ups in his past and practically say that he had what was coming to him then you are one cold, heartless son of a bitch with no soul.
Hmm, what comes to my mind is the parallels between Sean Taylor's story and tragic ending to that of the character "Ricky" in the movie "Boyz in the Hood"
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