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One of the dominant stories in the news today is the unfortunate shooting involving Jacksonville Jaguars offensive lineman Richard Collier. Collier is in “serious but stable” condition after emergency surgery and theres been a good amount of concern for his well being from what I’ve observed.

However, I’ve observed something else that’s quite disturbing and I can’t understand it. There are fans and members who talk about Collier getting shot as if he committed some sort of crime. This post on ProFootBall Talk discusses how the Jaguars need to “clean things up” on their team, and then they go on to list players on the team who have been arrested in the last two years.

There are also fans in the comment section of this article that immediately question Collier being out of the house at 2:30am.

The last time I checked, Collier was NOT doing anything wrong at the time of the shooting, he was breaking no laws and was simply waiting on female companions. So unless he’s a married man and was cheating on his wife, why is it an issue that he was out at 2:30am minding his own business? Since when is it against the law to get some pussy?

Give me a break. You’d think they caught this man in the middle of robbing a bank the way people are talking.

I don’t want anyone to forget the way the media handled the shooting death of Sean Taylor. Before all the facts were out, everyone jumped to the conclusion that Taylor had somehow done something wrong although he was in his bedroom sleeping.

I think it’s incredibly irresponsible for the media to take these sort of stances before all the facts are out. Sometimes they speak as if black men can’t be the victims of random acts of violence unless they’ve done something wrong first.