Jovan Belcher's shameful legacy for KC
Yael T. AbouhalkahEveryone’s reading today about the latest shameful tidbits of the Jovan Belcher case file. I wish they didn’t have to.
The Chiefs’ linebacker who murdered the mother of his child, then cowardly took his own life, also had a secret girlfriend, The Star reports.
Quite frankly: Big surprise.
And Belcher told that secret girlfriend that he might kill the mother of their 3-month-old child.
It’s more titillating information about a killer who has left a sad legacy: He has embarrassed the team he played for and continues to embarrass the town he played for.
Kansas City continues to be in the news in a very negative way because of Jovan Belcher’s actions, and there’s nothing we can do about it.
Belcher was a mentally unstable individual with domestic issues who decided to use a gun to solve things.
He couldn’t imagine letting Kasandra Perkins getting the best of him. Couldn’t imagine her taking his money or the child they had together.
So he decided to empty his gun into Perkins and leave their child fatherless and motherless.
Yeah, gutless. Yeah, another case where a man couldn’t control his emotions and left the world a worse place because of his actions.
Phil Cardarella
5 months, 1 week agoI have never understood the idea that killing himself was “cowardly”. Why? Because he deprived us of a juicy trial? Because he deprived us of paying millions to warehouse him in the penitentiary system?
Perhaps he — quite rationally — understood that he had done something terrible and felt that he did not deserve to live. Perhaps he felt he could not — should not — live with the guilt.
Of course, he did deprive a lawyer of a good fee — and a good lawyer might have gotten him off on manslaughter. In which case the Star and the domestic violence industry would be attacking judge and jurors for doing their job.
Let us not forget an important element: the ever-present gun. to protect whom — at 54th and Crysler? Sure, a guy his size could have killed her with his bare hands — Othello strangling Desdemona. But,his momma might have stopped that — if good sense didn’t. Bullets cannot be slowed or recalled.
Mindy Wilson
5 months agoThe whole point here is mental illness which exacerbates domestic violence. Domestic violence is the problem….not only does it destroy and kill families, it endangers first responders, law enforcement officers, hospital personnel….anyone in the path of it. Domestic violence, against women and children is the root issue here. Until our society provides courageous support to women who are in chains under the violence of a man, we will have beautiful lives wasted.