Plaxico Burress is out on $100,000 bail, so I guess he’s already freed, technically. What I’m upset about is Michael Bloomberg’s insistence on prosecuting the Giants receiver. According to the New York Times:
“Pointing out that the police did not find out about the incident until it was reported on television, the mayor said, “The hospital didn’t call and the Giants didn’t call, and the Giants should have picked up the phone right away, as good corporate citizens.”
He called it an outrage that the hospital did not notify the police after Burress showed up seeking treatment and said that prosecutors should “go after” the management of the hospital.”
Here’s what I don’t get: Plaxico Burress shot himself in the thigh. True, he didn’t have a permit to carry a handgun. But I think we can all agree that Plaxico has paid his debt to society. My god, the man took a bullet for it! Plaxico Burress is paying for his crime with not only physical pain and widespread embarrassment but the jeopardization of his professional career.
Leave Plaxico alone!
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