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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRomeo Crennel on Jovan Belcher: ‘I don’t know what made him snap’
Oh really, Coach? You take a young kid, fill his head with fame, subject him to head injuries, watch him take drugs (but only the kind that can't be detected on a pee test), know he's been drinking excessively and has a fascination with guns, but you don't know what made him snap? Wow.
Q: How do you reconcile Belcher as a teammate versus his horrible acts?
A: We will do it like any other family would do. Jovan is a member of the family. What he did, we didnt like, were not crazy about, but hes still a member of our family. When you go out in society and things like this happen in society because they do happen in society, you dont see people throwing the family members out the door. They are still loved by their family members, but the act, you dont like the act. So, you move on. You deal with it, and you dont have a choice; you have to move on.
Q: Did he ever express any troubles he was having in his personal life?
A: No major troubles in his life. Everybody has issues in their personal life. I mean, all of us here have issues in our personal life. Everybody handles issues differently; from dealing with Jovan, he seemed like a strong-willed individual to me. Hes a leader. He was sitting in the front of the classroom; hes the first to the drills, all of those things. Youre surprised by the events of the last few days.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/12/03/3947014/romeo-crennel-on-jovan-belcher.html#storylink=cpy
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)I'll admit that that sounds like a high ideal intended to heal the pain of family members of a criminal.
But, is there other circumstance anyone recalls where an employee killed his wife, and his employer memorialized his work shirt in his locker as a memory of 'one of us'?
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)In 1980. He was retired. He never made it into the HOF.
liberal N proud
(60,346 posts)proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)Just heard that on local talk radio.
sadbear
(4,340 posts)People are different. Obviously, this guy had issues that weren't being addressed constructively.
People do snap. All the time. It's a tragedy when they have access to guns when it happens.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)This isn't an all or nothing issue. But if you take a young kid, inflict repeated head injuries, mix in drugs and alcohol and add emotional stress, you shouldn't be surprised when he snaps.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Maybe someone from the profession can comment on this.
I'm not saying that substance abuse per se is not a mental illness. It is. But, I'm under the impression that chemically induced impairments are intoxifications...which are classically part of medical pathology
The statistics I've read about mental health and violence usually are presented making comparisons between the general population (iow not diagnosed mentally ill), the mentally ill, and then both those populations in the presence of substance abuse.
On edit...for clarification...it seems that general population + substance abuse implies substance abuse isn't tied to mental illness.
Substance abuse in most of those studies is the most important risk factor associated with violence.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)or drugs are warranted at this point. This young man worked his way up from special teams to being a starting linebacker. He wasn't a "golden boy" who had been touted for stardom since his freshman year in college.
What he did was unspeakable, but any speculation on why he acted as he did is just that.