Model citizen and former NFL running back, Lawrence Phillips, was ordered to serve 10 years in prison Friday, two years after being convicted of a mere seven counts of assault with a deadly weapon.
Dude is just misunderstood, I swear.
However, the most startling part of the story details the crime Phillips committed to land him in jail in 2005:
The 33-year-old former Nebraska running back has been jailed since August 2005, when he drove onto a field near Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and his car struck three boys, ages 14 and 15, and a 19-year-old man, who suffered cuts and bruises. The car narrowly missed four other people, prosecutor Todd Hicks.
Phillips was allegedly upset after losing a pickup football game to the youths and accused them of stealing some of his possessions.
“When he gets angry and he feels disrespected, he acts out with blind rage,” Hicks said in a telephone interview after the sentencing.
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“I’m sorry that your leg is messed up,” Phillips told Rodney Flores, after hearing the young man tell the court that he was unable to pursue his dream of playing high school sports as a result of being hit when he was 16.
See? I told you he was just misunderstood. You shouldn’t beat Lawrence Phillips in pickup football and just expect to walk away unscathed.
Lessons, however, come in all shapes and sizes. 10 years from now, when Phillips gets out of the pen, I bet you dollars to donuts he locks his shit in his car next time he plays pickup football.
