Dak too, right?
He was convicted of drunk driving.
This whole situation seems blown out of proportion. Plenty of people in professional sports have had run-ins with the law, yet it’s rare to see such immediate consequences before any proof is established.
Take the Dallas Cowboys, for example,
there are countless stories across the NFL of arrests, especially DUIs, and many players kept their jobs without being put on leave or suspended.
In this case, it’s a minor first offense misdemeanor, barely more than a traffic violation; no accident, no injuries, no fleeing from police.
There hasn’t even been a breathalyzer or blood test to confirm he was over the limit.
Still, ESPN put him on leave before results came back. It’s frustrating to see someone treated this way when there’s no actual proof of wrongdoing, especially compared to other high-profile incidents that were far more serious. If this is really a first offense, most people wouldn’t lose their job over it.
Our criminal justice system has been broken for a while because you’re supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, but I’ve been through this twice.
Not with a DUI, but once it was a DUI arrest where they claimed I failed the field sobriety test. Yes I've been falsely arrested twice you know what I still when I get pulled over I comply and I do what they ask even though I know that police officers are not perfect the things they do are subjective and I have three of them in my family but these field sobriety tests are a joke so don't just take that word for it that they felt like he was drunk how do you feel like he was drunk?
They wouldn’t give me a breathalyzer to prove my innocence, even though I begged for one because I knew I wasn’t drunk. They insisted on a blood test, made me pay a ton in bail and bonds, and required me to check in weekly with a bondsman and a probation-type officer. They wasted 90 days of my life and about $7,000, never apologized, never refunded me, and my blood test came back 0.00, nothing in it to justify failing that test.
It all came down to the subjective opinion of an officer who can decide to put you in jail, and once they pull you out of your vehicle, it feels like 90% of the time you’re going in. But it’s even worse for people like Romo, who get plastered all over TV, Facebook, and social media before they can defend themselves.
He’s put on leave without any proof. I didn’t hear anything in that video that should’ve gotten a guy fired, and I’d bet there are a thousand people at ESPN who have gone to happy hour, had a few drinks, and left, that doesn’t automatically make you intoxicated or over the limit.
