Jeremy Banks needs to be dismissed

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I saw the videos read the articles and don't get what the problem is. A dumb entitled kid got arrested for something trivial. He didn't even know how bonds work. Move on nothing to see here. The kid wasn't drunk or high and didn't have anything on him. He made an illegal u-turn and was driving on a suspended license because he forgot to pay a ticket. move on.. The question we should be asking is why is this even a story?

I feel the same way about the Bryce Thompson thing it was silly young kids doing silly young kids stuff no one got hurt slap the wrist and move on.
 
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Boiling it down to basics, this kid was arrested after making a safe U-TURN because he had an unpaid ticket that he couldn’t pay (which was suspiciously intentionally distorted when he stated it in the video) because the NCAA won’t let him earn money for himself. The officers involved and their superiors should be fired for wasting tax payer money and for slander.
 
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Officer Don - Don Kennedy went on to host and produce the syndicated radio show, Big Band Jump, beloved by millions.
 
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08Vol said:
He was using “we” in reference to people from the rough parts of Memphis. He is talking to a female intern and letting her know that policing in real cities is a lot different than being a campus cop in Knoxville. I interpret his statement more as a “this job is a lot more dangerous than you think and it’s going to get worse before it gets better”.
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Uh.....ok, I got what he was saying. I was merely saying because he said “we” which literally refers to himself and others, there would be a bit of a problem.........no matter how he meant if (I read the story, I understand).

Now simply look at media today, even national media has this story...........as I said, it now IS a bit of a problem. But not one he can’t recover from.
 
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butchna said:
Dude! Pruitt’s already announced “this has been handled internally.” You talk about a “bad look”? Pull a Roger Goodell and kick him out of school because of a video and you ensure said bad look.
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DUDE ! , I don't care what Pruitt said, we saw what Pruitt said in the video. This guy needs to be gone. I feel for the players and coaches who try to do the right thing ( I'm sure there are many) but have to work along side these type of entitled punks.

Let's cut to the chase here, these coaches like to talk about how they are mentoring to the players, trying to be a father figure etc. I'm sure there's plenty that feel that way but at the end of the day these coaches are trying to win games, keep there jobs but most importantly keep their big fat salaries. Fact
 
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This is ridiculous..so now everyone thats ever said something stupid to a cop should be kicked off their team? Fired from their job? Obviously the cop didn't take it that way or he would have been charged (you can be charged for saying something like that if the officer really wants to btw) but here is the thing 99% of police are normal decent people and they hear this all day long. they let it pass because they understood it was just a frustrated kid.

If the officers involved didn't have an issue then we have no right to have an issue. Its like some of the lighter complected friends sometimes get all bent if they feel like someone says something they consider racist around me. I didn't take it that way so what right do they have to feel insulted? How can you be angry for me when im not even angry?
 
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secking said:
The internal punishment that he has already received I’m sure was more than sufficient and Pruitt just said he will play Saturday (and rightfully so imo) but in light of the video, I do wish that Banks would do a ride along with a cop to help him grow in wisdom. Pruitt had no way of knowing what Banks had said in the video, but in hindsight, I hope the judge does suggest a ride along, not as punishment, but as a learning experience for Banks and to give him a better view from 10,000 feet perspective, to help him grow.

I believe his mind/beliefs might change, might not but don’t agree that some want him dismissed, he needs to grow in perspective.
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Im not sure a ride along is enough; NOW, but Congrats on stealing my idea posted earlier.
 
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illvol said:
Yes yes. We ALL know you hate all police regardless of how good they may be because you were treated poorly, unfairly, or unjustly at some point and therefore there is no such thing as a good one. For s#*t sake WE GET IT!!!!
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No. What we get is an endless list of posts saying what Banks owes the cop, when in reality, he owes him absolutely nothing.
 
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Grudenhaslanded said:
Boiling it down to basics, this kid was arrested after making a safe U-TURN because he had an unpaid ticket that he couldn’t pay (which was suspiciously intentionally distorted when he stated it in the video) because the NCAA won’t let him earn money for himself. The officers involved and their superiors should be fired for wasting tax payer money and for slander.
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OMG! And what about Banks' We shoot Cops Mentality? We should just turn a Blind Eye? Hail Far this WIN REGARDLESS has gone too damn far. IF Banks plays again this year, I say piss off Pruitt! That is ENGLISH BTW for Get Out!
 
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Grudenhaslanded said:
Boiling it down to basics, this kid was arrested after making a safe U-TURN because he had an unpaid ticket that he couldn’t pay (which was suspiciously intentionally distorted when he stated it in the video) because the NCAA won’t let him earn money for himself. The officers involved and their superiors should be fired for wasting tax payer money and for slander.
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Safe u turn doesnt negate illegal..just saying.
 
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Setting aside football for a moment, if this gets in the works and the same people that protested Schiano don't protest Urban then they are shameful hypocrites.
 
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cHiZzLeVOL said:
Lol you don’t follow anything very closely do you? That incident was completely cleared up weeks ago. He will obviously have some extra work to do at practice for his comments to the police officers
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It wasn't all over FoxNews "weeks ago". All I'm saying is it relays the Vols in an even worse image than they are already dealing with in terms of the program. I don't know the boy but his services can go elsewhere IMHO. May it be a lesson to him and others that follow.
 
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Roustabout said:
LOL
Kid should have been kicked off, but he won’t because Pruitt is from the Saban plantation. He won’t grow. He’ll learn, like we all know, that there is a different set of rules if you can’t tote the rock.
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Kicked off for an illegal uturn? That's some kinda ignorant right there
 
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rocytop2624 said:
more than half the cops think they are above the law and let it get to their head it's hard to respect those.
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There certainly are those people. I have found that most of those are simply too immature or too prideful. The immature guys don’t know how to handle themselves properly. The prideful officer kind of gets the big head because of “power” he/she wants people to “know” he has power.

We also have to remember, those same type people are everywhere. There are bad or just not good people everywhere.......so there will be those in law enforcement as well.

However there are millions of law enforcement officers and really just a small number of them are bad. We can never try to group all together by what the few have done, or by what the few are........that goes with everything in life.

Just as in life. I should never disrespect a man if I don’t know that man, simply because of the clothes he wears (or any reason).
 
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1200DPI said:
Just a "piling on" mentality by too many fans.

If the Vols were winning you wouldn't hear a peep from the vast majority of the fans.

Just a pervasive attitude of "kick me when I'm down".
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NOT Hardly. I don't care if we are 10-0 , I don't want my team filled with guys who disrespect the Law. This is about the LAW and nothing more. Without the Rule Of Law, you have no order. Are you guys educated at all?? Video game Degrees??
 
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tallahasseevol said:
Setting aside football for a moment, if this gets in the works and the same people that protested Schiano don't protest Urban then they are shameful hypocrites.
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If what gets in the works? Urban Meyer would never be interested in the TN job, if that's what you are talking about. Complimentary doesn't equate interest.
 
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