Originally posted by Trapps:Did you fall down and bump your head today? Gee, some dirtball was drunk driving and killed an innnocent person. Lets lump all drivers into the same batch...
You can lump all drunk drivers together.
Originally posted by Trapps:How is bringing the whole city down due justice?
Because the community that these idiots belong to no longer deserves any respect or prestige. Only if Detroit loses its reputation as fans will there be proper punishment for those involved. I wouldn't be saying this if there were one, two, or even a half dozen fans that participated. But it seems many of the lower sections of the arena were involved. Either that or the 'few people' involved just happened to have hundreds of cups full of beer and pop available for them to throw at the players. It seemed like a free-for-all. Therefore, you have to blame the 'fans' in general.
It was one fan that hit Artest. It's inexcusable for fans to throw debris at the field and at players, but it has happened before: batteries, golf balls, coin nights are always a bad idea. What sets tonight apart is players retaliated (defended, whatever you want to call it), and the entire situation escalated into the "free for all". If that situation transpired (fans throwing stuff, players rushing in to go after the fans) in ANY other city, I'd put money down on the same result. It is unfortunately human nature for masses to get involved when situations get riotous and individuals feel they won't get caught.
Generalize by skin colour and it's racism, by gender it's sexism, but generalize when bashing Detroit and it's journalism.
