High school football standout Jayru Campbell arrested a second time

[FrodosPet]

Source: WXYZ Detroit

DETROIT (WXYZ) - Police say Cass Tech high school football standout Jayru Campbell has been arrested for a second time.

Witnesses say Jayru was at Cass Tech when he snatched his girlfriend's cell phone and began reading text messages.

It was then that we're told Jayru became visibly angry and allegedly assaulted her.

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You may remember Campbell was sentenced to 60 days in jail back in July. That was for an aggravated assault charge after he body-slammed a school security guard on January 22.

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Read more: http://www.wxyz.com/news/region/detroit/sources-jayru-campbell-arrested-a-second-time-

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Alas, he probably STILL has a phat NFL contract in his future.

Freakin' macho meatheads.

[Hoppy]

1. poor tyke just needs someone to understand him.

[KinMd]

2. Sounds like NFL material to me

[Ivywoods55]

3. Does he have a mental illness?

Many of these young men have mental illnesses that do not get diagnosed as they are rushed through the school system and used to promote school sport programs. It is sad but true. This young man needs help, discipline, and probably direction in his young life. Too bad, because there is probably no one in his environment who is able or willing to step up/in before he ends up in prison for life.

[RandySF]

5. Yeah, he's an idiot.

[shenmue]

39. DUzy

[longship]

4. I despise US football.

It is a worthless sport which worships violence. Plus, it's boring as hell. How many minutes of commercials can one squeeze in between "plays" (which are about 30 seconds long).

If you want football, you ought to watch how the Australians play it. The ball is always in play. Players wear no padding or protection. There's no such thing as team possession. The game is played on a huge field, a cricket grounds. And field goals are regularly kicked from beyond 50 meters. (Look it up, metric illiterate.)

Australian Rules football. The best game on the planet.
http://m.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

6. Dude, no one cares

I'm sure if I looked hard enough or wanted to, I could find a story about an Aussie rules football player who beat his wife after a bunch of Fosters, and get all the sports haters on DU to call for it to be shut down as well. I think it's stupid to show up in a thread like this and pump your hipster "look I'm so alternative" sports viewing. It's like Kramer only watching the CFL.

Enjoy your game.

[longship]

7. Yup! I prefer games without overt violence.

It's why I hate US football. Suit yourself. (It's no wonder there's spousal abuse.)

BTW, here's what happens when a fan makes a racial slur to a player in Australian Rules Football.

That's right. They get ejected from the stands.

Adam Goodes, the captain of the Sydney Swans (and an Australian native) called her out and she was buh-bye. Interestingly, he reached out to her afterwords to explain why he did that. She apologized.

Somehow not like the wife beaters in the NFL.

I will stand by my post.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

8. Well, at least you didn't use the "thugs" dogwhistle n/m

[longship]

10. I prefer rational discussions.

Any discussion about US football has to include violence. After all. Why in the fuck do they wear all that padding? International football (I.e. Soccer.), no padding. Aussie rules football? No padding.

US football? Lots of padding, violence, and (apparently) both brain damage and spousal abuse.

QED.

I hate violence, especially when it's useless violence, like on a football field where it is totally unjustified. Too many call it entertainment. I find it idiotic. No wonder we're in so much trouble.

Maybe the NFL would sell better if they issued Zip guns, one per team, with one bullet each. One does not know who has it, and of course they are very inaccurate, but it sure would raise both the excitement and the violence of the game, which certainly seems to be the goal of this enterprise. Bullets flying would help things out. Don't ya think? Can hardly wait for the cheerleaders.

US football utterly sucks.

[Dont call me Shirley]

11. The girls in my daughters soccer league were viscous and brutal.

I'm glad she was ready to quit.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

16. Wait, you're a soccer fan?

Seriously? Do we need to get into the racism and violence of European football? And FIFA's response to it?

[FrodosPet]

17. No violence in AFL? Are you kidding?

Lots of nasty hits going for the ball from what I can see!

(Yes, it is still a cool sport. I am willing to watch. But nothing I know of compels me to dislike American football in order to like Australian Rules Football)

[Drahthaardogs]

30. They are 300 lb men who move like 180 lb men

And rugby is not even comparable. You dont have any idea so just stop please. The pads increase the viciousness not decrease it.

[cpwm17]

36. You don't know what you are talking about.

Clearly many people enjoy American football, so that means it doesn't suck for them. You aren't the center of the universe so your opinion is only your own. Don't be so chauvinistic and selfish.

Aussie rules football and soccer are very different sports and much less explosive than American football. That should be obvious to anyone that watches those sports. Without all of the protection American football would be deadly.

Stereotypical Aussie rules football fans often brag about the fact that their players don't wear protection, but when I watch Aussie rules football I have to laugh. The sport is played very differently. It's slower and much less explosive. Many Aussie rules football fans are blind to the obvious.

[toopers]

38. Yep, not violent at all . . .

Australian Rules Football Player Legitimately Tries to Kill His Opponent Mid-Game

What a thug!

]http://www.brobible.com/sports/article/australian-rules-football-player-choking/

[former9thward]

9. No never any violence there.

Australian Rules Football Player Knocked Out By Punch To Face (Video)

https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/EF44549B821104430525705568256_26fe3e3d869.1.0.5274397252261784709.mp4?versionId=AnfOy9IBTyxDFqHJI6OS1tjAM4pBu.Hg


http://nesn.com/2014/07/australian-rules-football-player-knocked-out-by-punch-to-face-video/

[longship]

13. And yup. Penalized for doing that. But that was on the field.

But what happens to a dude who knocks out his girlfriend in an elevator? Two game suspension? I would hope ten years in prison.

You are out of your element here, my friend.

[former9thward]

14. You are living in a fantasy world.

No one would get 10 years in prison or anything like it for what happened in that elevator. Either here or Australia. Nice to fantasize though....

From Your post: Yup! I prefer games without overt violence.

And then you excuse the punch as "but that happened on the field"

[longship]

21. Classic straw man argument.

The difference is that such violence is against AFL rules. But it is standard practice in the NFL, where people bash their helmeted heads together as part of every play in the game. (And recently there's reportage of concussions. Doh!! Who woulda thunk it?)

I still think they ought to give them Zip Guns. One per team. One bullet per gun. You want violence? Fine. Violence plus real danger, plus horribly inaccurate weapons equals excitement. There would be people creaming their pants.

I'll abstain. With or without the Zip Guns.

It is a horrible sport.

Sorry, my friend.

[xocet]

33. From your posts in this thread, it is clear that you do not separate sport from sportsmanship;

you seemingly refuse to accept answers to your "questions"; you make absurd claims regarding violence in only one contact sport; you elevate another contact sport to a height that it does not deserve; and you flaunt some ethereal form of superiority/purity based on a system of units.

?????????

[FrodosPet]

19. Overt violence in the AFL

[rug]

12. Wow, I had never seen even a minute of Australian football before.

It makes your point. Thanks!

[FrodosPet]

15. I still like football

Different strokes for different folks!

I had some great times as a kid, playing both organized and sandlot ball. It connects me with warm memories of my dad and my step dad. I just wish I had a better home team to support than the Lions.

Out of curiosity, what is the "metric illiterate" slur? I assure you, as a science and technology nerd, I probably have one of the better grasps on the origins, weights, and measures of the metric system in this forum.

[longship]

18. Metric? Most US folks have a stunning ignorance about metric, and Aussie rules football.

And what is known only in the USA as soccer.

I have no problem with touch football, or, the best version of such, flag football, where one pulls a handkerchief out of the opponent's pocket to tackle them. Instead, the NFL insists on bodily damage. Why in the fuck do they need so much padding?

And I agree. Different strokes. But I prefer non violent strokes. US football just is not there. And the football culture is violent, too, which is illustrated by both the game itself and (apparently) the players' activities off the field.

The sport disgusts me.

[FrodosPet]

20. I've posted some videos upthread

What is non-violent about kneeing someone in the back or the head?

[ybbor]

23. You do realize soccer is a British term?

And the Brits still used it up until the late seventies, or early eighties.

Here is more info if you like:

https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/the-rio-report/mystery-solved-don-t-blame-usa-real-reason-123344142.html

[Paladin]

32. Many thanks for the relentless sharing of your superiority complex on this thread.

Your good taste is a model for us all.

[MFrohike]

48. Only in the USA

http://www.socceroos.com.au/

I guess we annexed Australia sometime recently and I missed the news.

[xocet]

22. US football is violent, but so is any other contact sport - b-ball, hockey, footy, rugby, soccer,

lacrosse, field hockey....

(Even soccer played at a low-level is fairly violent.)

As far as despising US football, would it be correct to presume that you never played US football? If you had played it, you might see the sport differently - i.e., not so boring. Just for fun assume a given formation with no motion allowed and any other reasonable restrictions you might deem necessary (make the field a 2-D lattice), can you devise a method of counting the number of plays that stem from that formation?

Just borrow a football from someone and go out and play catch with a friend - or - get three other people and play two-on-two, touch football with a five-second rush. You might enjoy that especially on a nice fall day with leaves on the grass. Take a soccer ball along in case it truly doesn't work out - on such a day that would be an equally fun endeavor.

FYI: all the pads prevent a lot of injuries/stitches. Blocking and tackling cause bruises, but more serious injuries are uncommon in my experience. Sprains can be avoided by light taping.

The main problem with US football and many other sports is that they are not purely club sports. Somehow, athletics in the USA became inextricably tangled with education. If anything, that is what needs to be changed.

[SkyDaddy7]

25. Big fan of AFL...

However, your claim that it is any less "violent" than American football is so incredibly ABSURD I thought you were being sarcastic until I realized you were serious...Which begs the question, HAVE YOU EVER WATCHED 10 MINUTES OF AN AFL GAME?

I have personally seen a guy break his neck, there are concussions every game usually leaving the player knocked out on the field, every broken bone one could imagine & by the end of the game I don't think any player is free of blood whether it be theirs, a teammate or opponents.

The argument can be made, easily, that there is no more violent game than AFL simply because they do not wear any protective gear & the flow of the game is constant & always changing direction inviting massive violent collisions!

So, I would suggest you go actually watch a few games to see how non-violent a sport AFL is. LOL!

[xocet]

34. No doubt! n/t

[Oktober]

40. Whoopity do award for you!

Index finger up in the air...

Two quick counter clockwise rotations...

Utterance of 'whoopity do'

Award complete...

[snooper2]

41. I would imagine most everyone here has heard of soccer before

[Iamthetruth]

43. I get so tired of these type of comparisons

I played college football and will tell you that while you celebrate not using helmets or pads I would like to see one of your "football" players take a hit from a 250 pound linebacker who runs a 4.4 40 yard dash with his helmet down right in his chest. You see the pads are not for the protection of the tackling player a lot of time, they are used to knock the snot put of the guy with the ball. Also, I don't see too many austrailian rule football players crossing the middle of a field at full speed trying to catch a ball and knowing a hit is coming from a guy traveling at the opposite direction at full speed.

Australian rules football is a bunch of grown men running around in shorts that are too short.

[Iamthetruth]

44. I get so tired of these type of comparisons

I played college football and will tell you that while you celebrate not using helmets or pads I would like to see one of your "football" players take a hit from a 250 pound linebacker who runs a 4.4 40 yard dash with his helmet down right in his chest. You see the pads are not for the protection of the tackling player a lot of time, they are used to knock the snot put of the guy with the ball. Also, I don't see too many austrailian rule football players crossing the middle of a field at full speed trying to catch a ball and knowing a hit is coming from a guy traveling at the opposite direction at full speed.

Australian rules football is a bunch of grown men running around in shorts that are too short.

[BrotherIvan]

24. We should start talking about steroids

[exboyfil]

26. Or he could end up like Tony Farmer

I got to admit I thought the judge was running a con in that case, and he would be out in 3 months. He is still in jail (of course we do have the witness tampering and the attempt to send obscene material to a minor to consider).

You want something truly disgusting - one of the Steubenville rapists is back with the football team.

http://fox8.com/2013/05/13/i-team-mom-accuses-coach-of-inappropriate-conduct/

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/steubenville-rapist-malik-richmond-back-school-football-team-n179331

[Shrike47]

27. The kid's NFL contract is debateable. The 'farm teams' are colleges, and this guy reeks.

I see a need for a lot of anger management treatment here. He has to learn he can't just grab, intimidate, hit to get what he wants.

[exboyfil]

28. Big question should he have been let back into school

This second assault happened at a school function (football game). I don't know if it was on school grounds. Don't schools have an obligation to ensure the safety of their students? He had just been released from jail for the previous assault (that day even). What does it take for the school system to say you are a threat to the other students?

[exboyfil]

29. Hard to see but this is actually his third violent incident

apparently he punched another player after a game during the handshake. He also went all crazy when he was being restrained. Watch the video. You can't see the punch but it has been reported but papered over at the time.

By the way the assault on the girlfriend is on video as well.

Apparently it is state law that expulsion is called for if a student attacks a staff member. He was let back into school.

[exboyfil]

31. Here is an article at the time about

allowing him back into the magnet school in which students have to earn the right to attend.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/cass-tech-football-star-charged-with-assault-has-been-readmitted-to-school/25528982

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

35. Here's what's more likely to happen....

His career won't pan out. He'll get kicked out of any major program, and then end up bouncing to JUCO schools.

Eventually, he'll be back in projects of Detroit, hitting women, fighting, dealing, shooting....

He'll be in jail or dead by 25, and no one here will take notice because he's not making a million dollars playing for the evil NFL and there's nothing sexy or hot topic worthy about some gang banger who dies in the street.

[exboyfil]

37. Assuming he is guilty

they will add any time for a conviction for this assault to the prior conviction since he broke probation. After two years in jail I wonder if he will even get to sign with a Juco. Remember all three of his violent outbursts are on video. Everyone who went to bat for him after strike two (body slamming a school security guard) are going to be fighting a rear guard action for their own reputations. Except for his family he has few friends left.

[XemaSab]

49. Racist much?

n/t

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

50. How so?

This kid has assaulted a young woman. He's been charged with robbery. He's facing 15 years in jail. Are you going to deny what will happen to him if he doesn't get out from under poverty and out of the projects? Or do you just not want to talk about it? Your post is exactly my point. If he wasn't a "high school football" star and this wasn't shit on football week, no one here would give a flying crap because it wouldn't be posted here.

Wait, did you even read the article? You probably thought I just made up the "Detroit" thing didn't you?

[WhoWoodaKnew]

42. They're are, no doubt, many bad guys in football. But they're are

also good guys. We never talk about them.

[WhoWoodaKnew]

45. Notre Dame gave him a scholarship offer.

[FrodosPet]

47. Not just Notre Dame

Alabama, Wisconsin, and Michigan State, amongst others.

It is hard to see a talented young man throwing his life away. But he is showing a pattern of violence that appears not to be diminishing.

[KamaAina]

46. He has to get through college first

Any takers? The U (Miami of FL)?