Alabama basketball player charged with murder- Update Projected lottery pick provided gun

[Left.A1]

That’s what Miles told Davis

No

When Miller arrived at the scene, he allegedly contacted Miles in a text message, writing that 'the heat is in the hat,' and adding that 'there's one in the head,' according to Culpepper. As the Detective explained, Miller was allegedly indicating that there was a gun in a hat inside his car with a round in its chamber.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

The ones who killed her will get their punishment. You are the piece of shyt for trying to make Brandon Miller out to be a murderer.

I didn't say he was a murderer, but he needs to be accountable. No one who takes a loaded gun to an angry friend at 1:30am should be able to duck responsibility for the results. Did he really say he left "one in the head"? And you don't think he had some idea of what it was there for?

Have you ever had a gunshot victim bleed out in your arms? Felt the desperation of doing everything you could to keep the blood in their body and their heart still pumping while little kids cried and their friends desperately called out to Jesus? Known that if you failed this shyt was FINAL, that that life wasn't ever coming back and there would be people mourning forever? I would NEVER bring a gun to someone who had any chance of using it on a human being. If Alabama gave a shyt about gunshot victims then his actions would have been illegal as fukk, but there's a reason you're top-5 in the nation in gun death rates and so long as it's mostly Black folk dying, I don't see anything changing.

 

[djthegreat88]

Imma say this and I don't care how it's perceived on here.

I'm reading through these comments and it's sad people defending this guy.

Man if this was your local peanut and crew every person involved will be charged.

He's skating cuz he's a damn good ball player with a future. Also Alabama is ranked number 3 in the country with a chance to make the final 4.

He has played a serious role in this. The University of Alabama should remove the other 2 players at least for the rest of the regular season. They should be doing a thorough investigation internally but i doubt they will do anything unless public pressure ramps up

He gave someone their property back. Returning a legal gun to its owner In ALABAMA. Gun culture completely different in south. I’m from Michigan but live in Texas. Guns are part of life down here. What they did with the gun after the fact isn’t Millers fault. The shooter and the gun owner are in trouble and rightfully so

 

[Conan]

The worst part is that it's gonna put a rocket in the back of the next one to face this same decision. If someone is upset and asks you to bring them a gun, your FIRST thought should be, "I can't do that, I don't want someone to die and have that on my conscience."

Your second thought should be, "I don't want to catch a charge for his bullshyt, I have a life ahead of me."

Precedents like this make fools think they don't even have to worry about the consequences.

Gun culture is insane. But the truth of the matter is that we live in a society where guns are cherished and adored (to the point that nothing changed after kids were killed at Sandy Hook) and are more abundant than clean water. In that context, no I can't put that expectation on anyone. I'm not surprised that in America, you can tell your homeboy to get the (legal) strap and he brings it to you with no consideration for what comes next.

I don't endorse the idea of making athletes role models. So in the insane simulation we live in, where guns are legal and handing a legal gun to someone doesn't make you an accomplice in the state of Alabama, there's no need to worry about setting a precedent.

 

[Conan]

If Brandon Miller never existed in Alabama this mother would still be alive …sad

Yeah you don't know that.

Guns are aplenty in Alabama.

 

[Braman]

No

What source is that? The actual link. The AL article says:

Miles contacted Miller and asked him to bring his gun to where they were, according to police. The gun belonged to Miles.


When Miller got to the scene, Miles told Davis, “The heat is in the hat.” Det. Branden Culpepper said that meant a gun was present.

Miles added, “There’s one in the head.” That, Culpepper said, meant a round was in the chamber.

Darius Miles asked Brandon Miller to bring gun used to kill Jamea Jonae Harris, police testify

Miller, an Alabama basketball player, was not charged. Tuscaloosa chief deputy D.A. Paula Whitley said, “There’s nothing we could charge him with."

www.al.com

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Gun culture is insane. But the truth of the matter is that we live in a society where guns are cherished and adored (to the point that nothing changed after kids were killed at Sandy Hook) and are more abundant than clean water. In that context, no I can't put that expectation on anyone. I'm not surprised that in America, you can tell your homeboy to get the (legal) strap and he brings it to you with no consideration for what comes next.

I don't endorse the idea of making athletes role models. So in the insane simulation we live in, where guns are legal and handing a legal gun to someone doesn't make you an accomplice in the state of Alabama, there's no need to worry about setting a precedent.

Reality is reality whether you endorse it or not. When someone prominent and famous gets away with any sort of bad behavior without consequences, others will follow in their footsteps.

The truth is, violent criminals are too irrational and impulsive to think about their actions when they want to kill someone. They're going to do it regardless of the consequences. So the only way this shyt stops is if the enablers stop facilitating then. Dont matter if we like that reality or not, it IS the reality. The only two people who could have stopped that shooting were those two teammates, and instead they let it happen and a little boy gonna grow up with no mamma now due to their moral evil.

 

[Ohene]

So why did the woman get killed
Was she collateral damage? Did she catch a stray?

Was she the target? Why?

 

[mastermind]

Gun culture is insane. But the truth of the matter is that we live in a society where guns are cherished and adored (to the point that nothing changed after kids were killed at Sandy Hook) and are more abundant than clean water. In that context, no I can't put that expectation on anyone. I'm not surprised that in America, you can tell your homeboy to get the (legal) strap and he brings it to you with no consideration for what comes next.

I don't endorse the idea of making athletes role models. So in the insane simulation we live in, where guns are legal and handing a legal gun to someone doesn't make you an accomplice in the state of Alabama, there's no need to worry about setting a precedent.

Gun culture is insane, as is sports culture.

 

[#1 pick]

That was some Kobe on trial shyt......like to play like that with your life looming over you and the world at your head is special. We've only seen that from guys like Kobe, MJ, Iverson.

He's definitely the kind of player you want to go to war with……Don't even ask me how!

Man, this is an extremely risky one. He's clearly the best player in college hoops but idk man.

 

[#1 pick]

If someone wants to shoot you, they'll shoot you. They ain't gonna wait for you to pull out a gun and defend yourself first. If they were thinking about shooting you and you pull a gun they'll shoot you that much quicker.

There was a study of muggings in Philadelphia, people carrying firearms were 4.5x more likely to be killed during a mugging than people who weren't carrying firearms.

Investigating the Link Between Gun Possession and Gun Assault - PMC

Objectives. We investigated the possible relationship between being shot in an assault and possession of a gun at the time. Methods. We enrolled 677 case participants that had been shot in an assault and 684 population-based control participants ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

WOAT ban base in terms of justifying horrible shyt outside the game. But honestly, I can't blame them. If you have to defend the state of Alabama on a regular basis you'd be broken too.

That's all SEC fans. They all do that shyt. Especially if the victim is Black and irrelevant to white society

If I'm a projected lottery pick in the draft, I'm deleting that number for asking me to do dumb shyt in the first place

Facts! I know young nikkas love listening to drill but this shoot culture and kill shyt needs to die. No one should be dying for this stupid gangsta shyt when you not even gangsta. nikka, you go to AAU tournaments and hoop. Know your role nikka. Every nikka want to be Pooh Shiesty

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

How would Brandon Miller know it’s one in the chamber if he never handled or saw the gun like his lawyer claimed?

I’m not saying his life should be over but to be completely absolved of his culpability (morally, since there is nothing legally he can be charged with) is a terrible precedent. Alabama could’ve suspended him at least until the tournament.

 

[Marc Spector]

How would Brandon Miller know it’s one in the chamber if he never handled or saw the gun like his lawyer claimed?

I’m not saying his life should be over but to be completely absolved of his culpability (morally, since there is nothing legally he can be charged with) is a terrible precedent. Alabama could’ve suspended him at least until the tournament.

Miller didn’t say that.
Miles did as he gave the gun to Davis who was the actual shooter. Miller transported the gun that belonged to miles, who then gave the gun to Davis, who shot.

 

[Marc Spector]

So why did the woman get killed
Was she collateral damage? Did she catch a stray?

Was she the target? Why?

She was collateral. She was in the car as it was getting shot into. By most accounts, the actual target was her boyfriend who was beefing with Davis and Miles

 

[Apprentice]

How would Brandon Miller know it’s one in the chamber if he never handled or saw the gun like his lawyer claimed?

I’m not saying his life should be over but to be completely absolved of his culpability (morally, since there is nothing legally he can be charged with) is a terrible precedent. Alabama could’ve suspended him at least until the tournament.

He didn’t say that it, was the other 2 nikkas