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boxingcardman" Simpson's voice came through loud and clear: "Don't let nobody out of this room." "
Reality check: Who here thinks you have the right to bust into a stranger's hotel room and ransack it while you forcibly hold its occupants under your control, and not go to jail for it? What if it happened to you at teh National? Say you bought some cards from a walk-in and later that evening five guys with guns busted into your hotel room and held you while they ransacked it, on the basis that the cards were stolen? You'd be dialing 911 to report an armed robbery the instant they left. Let's also get real about what the heart of the controversy was over. It isn't like they were holding his kids or his wife (Ok, bad example) for ransom in that room; they had some stuff that might have been his. You don't use violence and threats of violence to get your stuff back from someone, only to prevent bodily harm or death to yourself or someone else. Nor did they take the law really into their own hands and make a citizens' arrest on these guys; they just went gangsta on them.
If someone comes to me and tells me that a couple of guys have my stolen stuff in a hotel room, I am on the phone to hotel security and the police, not rounding up a posse of thugs, storming the room, and having my thugs hold them at gunpoint while I ransack their room to retrieve it. If I decide to make that rotten judgment call and go vigilante, I deserve what I get.
Regardless of what you think happened in LA all those years ago, this man was recorded committing a violent assault on strangers in their hotel room.
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