Shane Williams, Colorado Mesa Univ. football player, arrested for alleged attack on lesbian

[xchrom]

http://outsports.com/jocktalkblog/2012/02/21/shane-williams-colorado-mesa-university-football-player-allegedly-attacked-lesbian-chelsea-gallagher/

Colorado Mesa University football player Shane Williams has been arrested for the alleged assault of a lesbian outside a bar early Friday morning. Chelsea Gallagher was sent to the hospital with a fractured skull after she and her girlfriend, Ashley Davis, were allegedly harassed with anti-gay language by Williams and at least one friend. Gallagher was the allegedly slammed to the pavement and lost consciousness. From NBC 11:

Gallagher says it started as an argument when she, her girlfriend and some other friends were leaving the Red Room on First Avenue early Friday morning.

“Going outside to leave, is when they started kind of making comments about us being gay and saying that Ashley looked like a boy and stuff,” said Gallagher. …

“My roommate said that he picked me up by the waste and slammed me down on the ground.”

Gallagher can’t remember many of the details before and after the physical attack. Williams was arrest Friday morning; Formal charges will be made later this week. Williams was a redshirt-freshman running back for the CMU Mustangs last year.

[izquierdista]

1. I'm curious

What kind of waste was she wearing that he could pick her up by it? I suppose his defense will be that he was enraged by her not recycling it.

[xchrom]

2. of all the professions out there -- you'd think anything to do w/ journalism

would be sensitive to spelling things correctly.

not everybody has to be first rate w/ spelling -- but you kind of expect it w/ news reports.


*** and i'm a prime example of what i'm talking about -- professions, learn to spell it xchrom.

[DURHAM D]

3. You would think that when you are posting in the LGBT forum

you would be sensitive to and do at least the following three things: (1) actually determine the source of the misspelling (2) not make flippant remarks or make fun of the issue at hand - violence on women and (3) recognize hate speech/activity for what it is.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. i don't know. i thought it was funny but not necessarily disrespectful

just pointing out that the article needed to be better written

[Initech]

5. Sounds like a bonafide hate crime to me.

[bullwinkle428]

7. Fucking neanderthal prick. I hope authorities actually take this seriously, and not let him

off with a simple slap on the wrist.

[TrogL]

8. Don't be ridiculous

He'll be given a scholarship