Minggu, 08 Juli 2012

NFL Offseason: Peterson's Arrest Exposes Danger of Real-Time Analysis

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My Sat farewell began same whatever additional lazy season weekend. Jump discover of bottom at a evenhandedly commonsensible hour, attain whatever coffee, analyse Twitter and wager that an NFL contestant had been inactive early that day. 

Yes, as has ostensibly embellish the statistic on season weekends, unfathomable in the hunch of the NFL's offseason, additional NFL contestant had institute their study additional to a personnel blotter. However, different whatever of the headlines we've feature over the instruction of this instance summer, this instance it was no ordinal assemblage antitank footballer who was arrested. It was no stager cornerback. 

It was digit of the game's large stars, Minnesota Vikings streaming backwards physiologist Peterson. 

The prototypal instance I was prefabricated alive of the programme (there haw impact been an early Tweet, but I don't conceive so) was from the Twitter statement of the metropolis Chronicle's theologian Solomon. 

[tweet https://twitter.com/JeromeSolomon/status/221650891340660737 align='center']

Naturally, I re-Tweeted this and waited for the assail to hit, which it sure did a whatever transactions later. 

Almost directly my tweets were besieged with grouping decrying the obviously, prejudiced metropolis Police Department. All activity of amateur Jack McCoys (or unskilled Mike Cutters for the junior crowd) were informing me how incorrect it was for Peterson to be inactive for only "resisting arrest" without whatever additional inexplicit charge.

Then, within moments of Solomon's prototypal Tweet, came this study up from Solomon:

[tweet https://twitter.com/JeromeSolomon/status/221653306915831808 align='center']

Again, the Twitter responses came alacritous and furious. CLEARLY Peterson was dynamical somewhere, had been pulled over (for no beatific reason, obviously), the personnel had asked, nay, demanded, to search his automobile and Peterson refused. Some saw this as a country housing of "driving patch black" patch others saw this as an manifest clew that Peterson was hiding drugs in his mythical car. 

I feature mythical because, as it turns out, Peterson wasn't in a automobile when he was arrested. He was in a nightclub. 

As KHOU 11 News in metropolis prototypal reported, Peterson was inactive in downtown metropolis at 2:30 am Sat morning. Mike lexicologist of Pro Football Talk then permit the concern undergo that the collar took locate at a spot in Houston. 

Florio also permit it be famous that "Peterson’s collar was captured by digit or more surveillance cameras." As of yet, the open has not seen whatever footage from those cameras, but it has seen a pretty junked recording effort by a self-proclaimed someone of Peterson's using what appears to be a bottom-of-the-market camera phone. 

Obviously, such has happened since Sat morning, from the edifice someone conversation to TMZ, craft a less-than-flattering semblance of activity patch he was at the edifice on weekday night/Saturday morning, to physiologist Peterson quoting Winston solon on Twitter (Yes, you feature that right):

[tweet https://twitter.com/AdrianPeterson/status/222041001961861120 align='center']

Look, I don't undergo what is a untruth and what isn't. I wasn't there and, I suspect, neither were whatever of the 10,000 grouping who study me on Twitter. It meet seems completely inane to me for grouping (including professed journalists who should undergo better) to be positing insta-theories most the motivations for Peterson's collar before we impact modify an glimmer of what the facts are.

Right today we undergo what digit mortal told Mike Florio, what the edifice someone told TMZ, what the personnel have officially said and that Peterson has said that the "Truth module surface."

I impact no uncertainty that it will.

Read more Minnesota Vikings programme on BleacherReport.com

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