August 4, 2005
Knox County releases McDaniel surveillance tape
The Knox Couny district attorney released the video taped surveillance footage of University of Tennessee player Tony McDaniel punching fellow UT student Deshaun Goodrich yesterday. The footage can be seen on the Tennessean's web site.
The tape lasts about a minute and shows the basketball game taking place. If you're watching for the punch and fall-out, Goodrich and McDaniel appear in the mid to lower left hand part of the picture and the altercation takes place about 10 to 20 seconds into the footage. The tape then goes on for 40 more seconds with Goodrich on the ground unconsious as no one makes a move to help him or see if he's OK.
"The most shocking part to me after watching it several times now is how everybody reacts afterward," said Goodrich, who had to have a metal plate surgically inserted to repair one of four broken bones in his face. "They just walk off while I'm lying there unconscious."
Comments:
Michael Hickeson said:
posted on August 4, 2005 4:28 PM — 209.194.80.90 — link — abuse?
Which you'd have a good piont...except no one died...
I'm a Realist said:
posted on August 5, 2005 9:15 AM — 69.55.162.50 — link — abuse?
I know that no one died. I was referencing the lenient punishment handed out for such a pre-meditated, horrific act of violence. If they give you probation for that, you could probably kill someone and get five years? Oh, wait, if your Leonard Little, you get more probation, right?
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I'm a Realist said:
posted on August 4, 2005 4:06 PM — 69.55.162.50 — link — abuse?"Shortly before McDaniel punched Goodrich, Wardlaw said he heard McDaniel say that he was going to lay out the next person who fouled him."
Unbelievable. He smashed a guy's face, which was pre-meditated, and he gets probation and $3,000 restitution? The next time I kill someone, I'll make sure to be in Knoxville.