There is plenty here to speculate on that the whole truth isn’t out there. To your point, an open beer between the legs as per one officer reported. But I’ll assume the blood test showed that he wasn’t impaired, not that he didn’t have any beer in him.
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I would think here that negative means the results definitely showed his BAC as well below the legal limit for prosecuting purposes.
I’ve heard in twitter that the open container may have just been a spit cup for tobacco…if true, still a bad idea to use a beer can for a spit cup
Haven’t heard that. It may Twitter speculation. But I did listen to Ed with Mark Berman on Twitter and Ed questioned how could a 5’8" cop see the open container of beer between his legs. No mention by Ed that it was a spit can.
The police report listed the open container was found in the driver side door according to news reports.
Also, for an open container not to be legal, it must contain alcohol and cannot be empty. It can’t be an open container of Coke or Pepsi and so forth. Not sure how they would classify a spit can except they couldn’t list it as an open container if it didn’t contain alcohol.
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You are making a dangerous assumption. The police, the judge and the lawyers only had access to the police report. Did the police try to make an example out of Ed? That is highly plausible. It has happened multiple times and in some cases rightfully so. Here is why. Our society has put professional athletes on a pedestal. Charles Barkley told me one night that schools and pro leagues do very little to prepare athlete for their professional lives. It is true here in America but also in Europe and South America (don’t know about Japan)
Ed does not strike me as someone that will be stupid enough to get involved in this even if he is a young adult. This is not like ED is your common young man. Everybody knows who he is. We already would have known if he was irresponsible especially with drinking around his area or in the Buffalo area.
Sergio, unless you have proof that would stand up in court, you don’t have a leg to stand on.
Sounds like another “victim of society” !
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The DA said he had no evidence. Kind of difficult to continue to prosecute when the blood test says zippo!
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Political posts incoming. Some people just can’t help themselves!
So really is that your birthday?
If he were judged as any other person in Houston under the same circumstances I think it would be the same.
Regardless, I expect they took his gun and in many places those are never given back to their rightful owner. Worst case, if he DID test positive for alcohol or drugs he would spend a night in jail unless somebody took custody and let him sleep it off at home, pay a higher fine than I can afford but easy for him, and have a ,ark on his record. In the end, attorneys and courts make their money.
If tested positive and he has a LTC, that would be revoked, his firearm would be lost, he would pay higher fines attorney and court fees would go up. Being an honest citizen and an LTC cost more, go figure.