Official Statement from Jeremy Pruitt on Thompson

#127
#127
volquest86 said:
There was only one said witness who supposedly heard the "Shoot up school"... if the girl who he was arguing with didn't hear it....then it probably didn't happen.
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Actually there were several witnesses who heard it. One actually saw him, two heard him yelling it. It's all there in the police report. It would be easier to dismiss if it were one witness, but having multiple people hear it ratchets things up. There is zero tolerance these days for any comment regarding shooting up anything, especially a school. Priorities seem to lie with winning football games it appears, and not with dealing with idiots appropriately.
 
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#128
#128
The whole thing is BS. State law REQUIRES that someone spend 12 hours in detention on a domestic misdemeanor.

Many states he would have been told to leave the premises and cited to appear.
 
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NoogaVol423 said:
I love how some people just assume what witnesses say is true and crucify the accused. AJ Johnson (although not the same circumstance criminally) was wrongfully accused of something, had “witnesses” one being his own dang teammate. Guess what happened? They were lying the entire time. Don’t assume he said he is going to “shoot up the school” based of ONE PERSON’S recollection of the argument that occurred. Bryce is innocent until proven guilty, how it should be. We need to support our student athletes in these situations until proven guilty, not the other way around.
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I love how some people's reading comprehension skills are so weak they can't figure out that multiple people heard the threat, and it's all in the police report.
 
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#135
onevol74 said:
Sitting 2 or 3 games for threatening to shoot up a school is doing nothing about a serious situation. I do not know if he said it but if he did it should be game over.
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What if it's him vs one witness? How would you handle that.
 
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#138
Roustabout said:
The whole thing is BS. State law REQUIRES that someone spend 12 hours in detention on a domestic misdemeanor.

Many states he would have been told to leave the premises and cited to appear.
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Yup.

Sit for GS, run stairs after practice, and move on.
 
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#139
BigOrangeTrain said:
Our society has become one of extreme weakness. These days all a female has to do is say a man looked at her in an inappropriate way and that guy is toast.
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Sometimes you come across as way overkill but this has never been more true. Where I work, we have training where employees are encouraged to comment. Some women make statements to the effect that men should NEVER be having sexual thoughts about women at work. THOUGHTS PEOPLE!
 
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#141
smokeyz1 said:
Have you not been paying attention to the Title IX, MeToo, and Mass Shootings that have been going on the past couple years? It has nothing to do with being charged with a crime. It is the way the "shoot the school up" comment has already been portrayed in the national media as a fact. The school administrators will be under tremendous pressure to expel BT form the school. I don't think CJP or Fulmer will have the final call on this. They will have to convince a bunch of PC administrators that don't care about football to let BT remain in school.
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I don't give a damn how it is being portrayed. I only care about the law and if he isn't charged and convicted what grounds do they have to remove him from school? Because somebody heard someone say something and they may not have even heard the entire comment? Sounds solid. lol
 
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onevol74 said:
Sitting 2 or 3 games for threatening to shoot up a school is doing nothing about a serious situation. I do not know if he said it but if he did it should be game over.
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I also mentioned off field punishments, which can cover a lot of additional measures and consequences that could reassure that he is no threat and does nothing like that again. Of course, we're discussing hypotheticals based on an unproven accusation.

If he didn't say it, it's still going to stick with him for a while because there is already a narrative in the media and even by some of our own fans in this thread that he definitely said it. I think it's unfortunate that so many are willing to believe and push this forward when it has yet to be proven.
 
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#147
PG1 said:
Yes let’s just ignore he said I am going to shoot up the school! You obviously don’t have anyone you know attending UT right now!
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Woah. You technically just said “I am going to shoot up the school.”

Since context, witnesses, due process apparently have no place here, I’m going to do everything in my power to have you removed from your regular work activities for safety reasons.
 
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#148
BlackCreekVol said:
For yelling at his girlfriend......good grief
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I think the words used if true of blurting out whether spontaneously out of anger about shooting up the school has more to do with this being taken more seriously. The fact that he didnt hit the girl was fantastic or it would be a closed case he is gone. Verbal abuse gets others attention but in the era of mass shooters the police have to take even wild talk seriously and remove any danger. I would imagine because he was talen into custody before things escalated any worse will help unless they find a firearm in his dorm/car/backpack then that could spell the end.
 
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