Ima be honest, some of yall in this thread are disgusting with trying to make this kid out to be some wronged martyr. Somebody is fukking DEAD due to activities that he played a part in. I dont give a fukk how many points he lit up S. Carolina for.
Now by all accounts of Alabama Law, Miller did nothing legally wrong. The most you could accuse him off is acting as an accomplice but even that is circumstantial as his intent when he transported the weapon cannot be assessed.
In fact, im going to play devils advocate and assume that his intent was to deliver the gun to Miles so that he could protect himself from a threat.
With that established, what bothers me is that based on the reporting, not one time among the group of Brandon Miller, Darius Miles, Micheal Davis, Jaden Bradley did one of these young men attempt to deescalate the situation in any meaningful way. And I surely believe that Brandon Miller shares a massive amount of culpability in escalating the situation by bringing the fukking gun in the first place.
What bothers me is a troubling trend of seeing young Black men make stupid, impulsive decisions to inflict or enable the infliction of violence upon somebody else without any regard to 2nd or 3rd order effects.
Like even if Miller did think Miles needed protection, what did he think bringing the gun would solve? Wouldnt picking them up to flee the situation be the better option? Wouldnt involving Law Enforcement have been the better option as well? Did he really think a potential gun fight would be the safest, most effective way to solve whatever encounter Miles was in? Did he ever think about how he and Miles being involved in whatever was going on would affect their basketball careers?
I could go on and on about how few considerations were made in this decision.
Some of yall will say he's 18 and 18 year old kids are dumb. But to absolve hm of any sort of critical thought criticism because of his age is a pathetically low bar to hold hm accountable to (and once again, thats assuming hes as innocent as he claiming).
Not to mention, if he is dumb enough to not consider any of what i previously laid out, yall really think he still should be playing in the NBA?
I’m with you except a few things
1). Involving law enforcement when it comes to black males is almost NEVER the right option. Police make things worse
2). Miller’s account (through his Lawyer) is that he had no idea the gun was even in his car UNTIL he was texted to bring it back to him. Also by the lawyer’s account the Gun was legally owned, so Miller isn’t exactly morally obligated to not return someone’s property. IF Miller’s account is to be believed, he gave someone what they owned, immediately bounced and was going about his evening until the shots rang out a few minutes later.
IF he wasn’t aware of the previous confrontation and wasn’t involved in it and was on some “My name is bennet and I Ain’t In It” type steeze then the question becomes one of how culpable is an individual for minding their own business and not inquiring on the “why” of a matter?
I think thats where the moral issue lies. If your my homeboy and I know you may have a reputation for being hot-headed and i’m around you when you get in some shyt with another person or parties, then i’d feel
MORALLY obligated to try to diffuse the situation. Get cooler heads to prevail.
Now lets say i’m not around, i’m chilling minding my business, rocking solo for the night, you call me to pick you up and drop you off at the spot. I’m a do you the solid and scoop you but i’m not in the mood for partying that night. I drop you off, I go do my own thing. You text me you left your gun in my car and you need it. I’ve known SOME people who might sense an issue there but are so tired of dealing with their short fused friend, are pissed the gun was even left in their car in the first place, that their not gonna inquire on anything and just drop the gun off and then get as far away as possible to not be part of whatever might go down. Because asking questions oftentimes gets you swept up in whatever fukkery.
I’ve also known SOME people who would ask questions and try to Furious Styles the situation and talk them out of it no matter what
Its a fukked up situation and I think the question as it pertains to Miller is how responsible are you for the actions of another human being?
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