Unless the police are in possession of information not in evidence from the game video, that is a ludicrous decision. The entire hockey world is pretty much united in recognising it as a horrible accident.
Players get hit with skates all the time. Jacob Lauko got a skate in the eye two weeks ago. Unless they've got Petgrave telling Johnson he's going to do him and how, this can only be a decision based on a complete lack of understanding of the dynamics of hockey.
If the intent you mention was in evidence it'd be murder charge not manslaughter wouldn't it?
Braverman says she wanted to help "stem the rising tide of racism". I think I must have misjudged her. I have to admit that I had previously assumed she was a right nasty cunt of a woman.
Typical of the police to investigate a not a crime. Try getting them to look into an actual crime.
Dunno. I know fractionally more about hockey than I do about the law.
That's a spectacular letter she's written.
I know it's not funny, but ...
"A post-mortem examination confirmed he died as a result of a fatal neck injury, South Yorkshire Police said."
No shit Sherlock.
They're taking it seriously enough to have the intelligence unit on it then?
South Yorkshire Police are good at sports, leave them alone.
In other news I seem to have come into possession of a 2CAD coin. @Russ - do you want it?
I found about 70 CAD the other day, presume from my last trip there about 8 years ago, you can have that as well if you want.
Russ, you shall go to Disneyland after all!
I've got about 10 to add to the pot.
I'm gonna need an exact figure mince, financial institutions such as Disney don't deal in 'about'.
Leave it with me. I'll need to find the jar that I threw them in a few months ago.
(#)prayforruss
I made the mistake of looking at Twitter over the ice hockey incident.
The victim was a white guy. The perpetrator was a black guy. So apparently, the whole affair is hugely racially-motivated, although Twitter can't agree whether it's an example of racist police bias or the inherent violence of black people. Grim.
