Cedric Benson Hires A New Lawyer

by Adam T on May 9, 2008 7:05 AM CDT

Hey guys! Ready for some more Cedric Benson news that will clear absolutely nothing up? I thought so.

Cedric Benson has hired a new lawyer as he plans to fight the charges that he was drunk and resisted arrest.

Currently the biggest card being played here is the race one. From Benson suggesting he was singled out to his friend Elizabeth Cartwright telling here Dad to call the police because her black friend is being beat up.

The Lower Colorado River Authority has released some numbers in an effort to fight that claim.

...in the last five years, its officers have made 457 arrests on the lake, and that 428 of the people arrested were white and 10 were black.

Again this looks good for the authorities, but doesn't really prove anything. I imagine we are going to get a lot of little chunks of stuff like this until the 19th when the initial hearing is scheduled.

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There goes the "cuz he was black" issue.

I do believe the it prob wasent warrented scince ther was a witness there who was not with Bensons party said that it was Police Brutality.

by SuperBowlXX on May 9, 2008 9:00 AM CDT reply actions

The problem is the stats they gave could be

severely slanted. What is the ratio of black people to white people who frequent that area? If they arrested 10 black people, but only 20 were ever there than his claim still has legs. I’m sure the numbers are higher than 20, but you catch my drift.

Being Who You Thought We Were Since 2005!

by Adam T on May 9, 2008 9:09 AM CDT up reply actions

Ratio.

Less than 10% of Travis County is black. The cove on Lake Travis is a white fraternity hangout- I had my wedding on the lake last year, and the captain of the barge initially tried to park there, but a Saturday afternoon in the spring meant that we were surrounded by drunk white kids and we moved to a different part of the lake.

To give you some perspective, about a third of Travis County is Latino, and the statistics the LCRA gave would indicate that there were only 19 Latinos arrested. It’s not because the LCRA is discriminating against white folks, it’s because Lake Travis, especially the cove, is overwhelmingly a hangout for white people. Benson would have stood out like he was radioactive.

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by itsugly on May 9, 2008 1:42 PM CDT up reply actions

thats like saying that there is more

whites then blacks in beverly hills…so that more whites get arrested so it cant be ratially motivated. Also vice versa, saying that more black people get arrested in DC then white people.
If more of that race resides in that part of the US ,then that race is more likley to be arrested, cuz there are simply more of them.

by SuperBowlXX on May 10, 2008 9:00 AM CDT up reply actions

why?

why do people always throw the race card into the pile? are there no situations ever when race had nothing to do with it?

GO BIG BLUE!! GO BIG BLUE!!

by UKWildCatFanatic on May 9, 2008 10:17 AM CDT reply actions

I am not gualified to answer that.

I don’t know how somebody of a different race sees things or how they feel, but I am sure there have been times it gets used, just because it will work and get a much bigger reaction.

Being Who You Thought We Were Since 2005!

by Adam T on May 9, 2008 11:34 AM CDT up reply actions

by thecubreporter on May 9, 2008 1:45 PM CDT reply actions

Seriously?

I’m hoping no one takes that article seriously. It’s ridiculously biased against the officers. So the score is even. Can we drop the race/prejudice issue till we know more?

by bs1220 on May 9, 2008 7:59 PM CDT up reply actions