Atlanta Falcons waive Prince Shembo after charge in girlfriend's dog death

[Garion_55]

Source: http://www.foxsports.com

The Altanta Falcons have waived Prince Shembo in the wake of the aggravated animal cruelty charge filed against the linebacker after his girlfriend's dog died from blunt force trauma.

"We are aware of the charges that have been filed against Prince Shembo," the Falcons said in a statement Friday afternoon. "We are extremely disappointed that one of our players is involved in something like this. Accordingly, we have decided to waive Prince Shembo.”

Denicia Williams called police on April 19 to report that her ex-boyfriend had killed her dog, Gwinnett County police said in a news release Friday. Williams told police she had taken her Yorkie, Dior, to Shembo's apartment on April 15. At some point, she left Shembo alone with the dog, and when she found the dog later he was unresponsive.

The dog suffered extensive injuries, including a fractured rib, abdominal hemorrhage, head trauma, eye injuries and extensive bruising in the muscles of his front leg and shoulders.

Read more: http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/atlanta-falcons-prince-shembo-charged-animal-cruelty-death-girlfriends-dog-052915?adbsc=social_20150529_46686986&adbid=10153932719069552&adbpl=fb&adbpr=112638779551

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excuse my language for one second.



FUCK YOU YOU ANIMAL ABUSING PIECE OF SHIT!!!!!

[gwheezie]

1. what kind of monster beats a yorkie?

If he wanted to take on an animal jump in a cage naked with a grizzly.

[shenmue]

3. Yipes

[gwheezie]

4. I may have over reacted,nt

[irisblue]

8. no, no you didn't

what is it with the Falcons and dog killers?

[onecent]

10. NO YOU DID NOT.

AT ALL

[cosmicone]

15. No .. although I'd have preferred a raccoon or a lion to a grizzly. n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

17. Not at all...

let's see how big, tough, roid rage man fares with something that can fight back.

[Boomer]

32. No, you didn't over-react

The guy kicked a tiny dog to death. That's sick.

I'm with you. Let him try kicking a grizzlie bear to death and see how it ends.

[roguevalley]

20. what kind? The same as the dj in Belgium who beat a

tiny rabbit to death in front of everyone in some psycho attempt to show the 'hypocrisy' of only feeling the feels if the animal is cute. I feel it for insects, each time I mow my grass, EVERYTHING THAT EXISTS IN THIS UNIVERSE AND EVERYWHERE ELSE! Like that.

This goon is an SOB for this and so is the fragger in Belgium. I won't link to the story. There's a picture of him holding a very tiny, very wonderful baby bunny., ARGH!

[gwheezie]

21. it's sickening

The cruelty of killing is so much worse for the defenseless. For all beings.

[passiveporcupine]

25. Me too

I accidentally mowed over a tiny snake and cut it in half, and I still cannot get that image out of my head. I love snakes...and the tiny ones are so adorable. I wish the bees would leave my path too, when they hear the mower coming...but quite often they don't and I'm pretty sure I get some of them too. I'm always watching for little live things like tree frogs and other critters. That snake just broke my heart.

[Marthe48]

27. Alternate lawn?

Would you be able to reduce the size of the grassy area, so you mow less? We kept the yard at our old house very natural, with about 1/3 of it mulched and rocked, and a vegetable garden. We had about 1/3 acre, and had a terrific variety of critters, from crickets to deer. A few years ago, I got to watch a large black snake climb up a sweet gum tree. Straight up. Amazing

[passiveporcupine]

30. I once saw a green racer climb a bush and it was so funny.

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It was trying to hide from me and my dogs while we were hiking. That was the first time I saw a snake climb a bush.

[Marthe48]

36. You were lucky to see the snake

I've been so busy in June, just got free time today This week, one of our new neighbors stopped by when we were out on the porch and wanted to know if we were going to do anything about the weeds on the hillside. She is concerned about snakes and a groundhog. I was happy to tell her that most of the land belongs to someone else and we can't do a thing We are going to spray poison ivy after the raspberries are all picked. I understand that people fear snakes (I don't understand why) but I don't know why she wants to have habitat destroyed because of a ground hog. We've seen the groundhog and for living in town, we are delighted with the diversity of wildlife. Having a hillside overrun with greenery is really attractive to the critters, including 5 deer. The hill is really steep, unusable unless you know how to rappel, and I imagine the ground cover helps hold it in place, or it'd be in her front yard.

[7962]

2. The Falcons are my team and I'm glad they made this move.

Unfortunately too many fans dont care about anything but winning. When Mike Vick was released from prison you'd be surprised at how many people were angry at the Falcons for releasing HIM.
I'm sick of these abusers getting awy with this crap simply because they can play a sport well.

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. poor dog

[OKNancy]

6. such a sweet little dog

[radicalliberal]

11. How could anyone hurt such a cute dog, especially considering how small it is?

[Marthe48]

28. My neighbor has 3

And they all think I'm their pork chop Love them all!

[OKNancy]

7. Look what I found reading the Atlanta paper

Shembo, a linebacker who played at Notre Dame, was a fourth-round pick for the Falcons in 2014. He had 59 tackles in 16 games last season.

Although he was never charged, Shembo was investigated for allegedly sexually assaulting a Saint Mary’s College freshman in his dorm room in 2010. The 19-year-old woman, Lizzy Seeberg, killed herself 10 days later by taking an overdose of the antidepressant Effexor.

“Pretty much it was an unfortunate event,” Shembo told reporters after being drafted. “My name was pretty much cleared. It’s behind me now. I just want to focus on playing football for the Atlanta Falcons.”

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http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/falcons-player-accused-of-killing-ex-girlfriends-d/nmQ9y/

[C Moon]

9. That is kind of creepy: almost sounds like it may not have been suicide. What a creepy a-hole.

[BrotherIvan]

12. It shows that people who hurt animals will hurt people too

Cruelty and sadism for any living being is a red flag. Animal cruelty should be investigated and punished and never taken lightly. Often a child is next on sadist's the list, but in this case, Lizzy Seeberg was hurt. So sad for her. This story is awful and it sound like there was a coverup of some kind. This person is dangerous.

[radicalliberal]

13. Speaking of Notre Dame, . . .

Prominent journalist Robert Sam Anson on the notorious 1974 scandal (excerpted from http://ncronline.org/news/people/reporter-recalls-rocky-friendship-fr-theodore-hesburgh):

In late July 1974, I chanced on an AP story reporting that Notre Dame had suspended six members of the football team "for at least one year," following an accusation by an unnamed 18-year-old South Bend girl that they'd gang-raped her in a university dorm.

Apart from the fact that all the players denied the allegation, and that criminal charges had yet to be brought against any of them -- and didn't seem likely, given the he-said, she-said nature of the case -- details of the incident were sketchy. This struck me as odd. Even a hint of scandal involving Notre Dame's football team, which had defeated Alabama for the National Championship the previous New Years -- was hot news ordinarily. There was also a racial angle: the accused were black, their accuser white. Nonetheless, the story was buried deep in the sports columns, and the leading media outlets were ignoring it altogether.

My wonderment increased as I ferreted out additional details. For one, virtually all of the principals -- including the county prosecutor, the young woman's attorney and the South Bend Tribune reporter on the story -- were Notre Dame graduates. For another, Notre Dame spokesmen weren't saying boo, save that the accused players had been suspended for "a serious violation of university regulations."

The implication was that the penalty had been imposed by the university official tasked with investigating the case, Dean of Students John Macheca. Turned out, though, that Macheca, a former National Security Agency intelligence analyst who'd resigned over Vietnam, had wanted the players expelled. But in the interests of "compassion," he'd been overridden by Fr. Hesburgh.

Meanwhile, Coach Ara Parseghian was attributing the loss of four projected starters and two key backups to the decline of female morality brought on by watching soap operas. As for the alleged victim, a university administrator told me, "You know the type. A queen of the slums with a mattress tied to her back."

There was plenty that didn't smell right. New Times, a well-regarded investigative biweekly and my then-employer, agreed, and I hopped a flight to South Bend.

I'd worried en route about getting key medical and law enforcement sources to open up. All you had to do, it developed, was ask. I learned a lot with this tactic, including that the prosecutor's office had looked into the young woman's background and found it spotless, and that medical personnel who'd treated her immediately after the incident had no doubt that she'd been sexually assaulted, or that the trauma caused required several weeks psychiatric hospitalization.

I also managed to secure the young woman's name, home address and telephone number. She wasn't available, but her parents were. I debated calling, decided against it, and one midevening simply drove out to the house, a meticulously kept suburban split-level miles from the nearest slum.

I rang the bell, and a middle-aged man with the physique of a onetime tight end -- an engineer at Bendix, I was subsequently informed -- opened the door. I hadn't planned what to say; the words just tumbled out: "I'm a reporter from New York. There are 7,000 men at the university who think your daughter's a whore, and I don't believe it."

His face reddened and fists balled. I thought he was going to slug me. Then tears welled in his eyes. "I need to talk to my wife," he said.

He opened the door 20 minutes or so later, invited me in. His wife joined us and we sat down in the living room. There was a moment's awkward silence. Finally, I said, "Just tell me what you think I need to know."

By the time we finished it was nearly 11:00. All that remained was getting the other side of the story. I picked up the phone in the Morris Inn room where I was staying and dialed a number I knew by heart. Fr. Hesburgh was not pleased to hear from me.

"We're going to sue you, and we're going to get big damages," he said, after I'd given him the highlights. "If need be, we can produce dozens of eyewitnesses."

I resisted inquiring how "dozens" could "eyewitness" an event that supposedly never took place. Instead, I said, "Father, the parents told me that no one from the university ever contacted their daughter."

"I didn't have to talk to the girl," Hesburgh said. "I talked to the boys."

At which point, I hung up.

. . . Notre Dame never sued, and no eyewitness ever came forward. But it was years before Fr. Hesburgh and I talked again.

Anson's article, which is entitled "That Championship Season," was published in New Times in September of 1974. He states that the 18-year-old girl decided to not press charges after she had received death threats from Notre Dame football fans.

[underpants]

14. He's a Falcon as~hole

[cosmicone]

16. This guy should be locked up for a long long time

We should stop giving jocks a pass.

[FrodosPet]

18. But Bush and bankers aren't in jail, so he shouldn't be

Nobody should go to prison until Bush, Cheney, and bankers go to jail first.

Even if you try to solicit murder, if someone is worse than you and gets away with it, you should be able to get away with it as well.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141105433

[cosmicone]

33. That is like saying

no one should have any appetizers until everyone can afford caviar.

[jtuck004]

19. A lot of serial killers start with animals, and it is well-documented. I'd watch out. n/t

[FrodosPet]

22. He IS an animal abusing piece of shit

OTOH, rich libertarians who solicit murder while helping people sell poison are victims of an unjust criminal justice system.

Dog dies: The guy's a piece of shit.
Humans die: Meh, whatever, as long as people can get their buzz on.

DAMN, OUR SPECIES IS FILLED WITH FECKING PSYCHOPATHS!

[Hoppy]

23. Don't worry. There's a place for him on the Eagles.

[Coventina]

24. Beat me to it!!

(That's at the POS animal killer, not you.)

[Hoppy]

26. Sorry, but I'm a keyboard wizard.

"From Harlem down to P'town,
I move the mouse's rubber ball

To beat you to the retort,
To beat you one and all,

My fingers are just faster,
You aught'a see them fly,

My post gets before you
so your reaction is just, My, My,

[RebelOne]

29. According to our local Fox News 5 channel on the late news tonight,

Shembo's attorney said that it was an accident. That Shembo was putting the dog in it's crate and the dog bit him, so he kicked the dog.

[Calista241]

31. That's no excuse. I'm glad they waived this piece of shit.

I'll be able to cheer for them next year with a clear conscience.

Even if Shembo doesn't go to jail (which he should), he'll never play in the NFL again. Hope it was worth it douchebag.

[sendero]

34. Nice story..

... but the injuries are way to extensive to have been caused by a kick.

[leftyladyfrommo]

35. Really. His story doesn't hold water.

Yorkies only weigh about 6 pounds. It sounds like he bounced him off the wall a few times.