Mackensie Alexander-good news update

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(08-26-2020, 01:19 PM)bengals1969 Wrote: What we know so far is Alexander lied to the Bengals.  He told them he wanted to go look for his father.  No he didn't. He wanted to go find someone and beat him up, if not kill him.  Not good anyway you look at it.  If Alexander has a family, hurts them if his football career is derailed.  If the guy he beat up actually did it, his brawling just splattered Alexander DNA all over the guy.  Could mess up an investigation.  Nothing good comes of his action.  After all the shit that we've all had to swallow since mid March, I'd like some football from a team that might be winners this year.  

My 2 cents.

We don't know what happened. You don't know his motivations, we can only speculate.
My take is that he went to ask this guy about it, to find his Father, and this guy didn't respond well, and Alexander's emotions got away from him.
Given that Alexander is a professional athlete with the capability to do FAR WORSE, I'm going to lean in the direction that if his intention was to beat the guy up, then this guy would be in a hospital, or worse.

My dad is 88, and if a "friend" took him somewhere and left him, oh brother! I would be asking some hard questions, Hank Voight style, ya know?
edit: OK, maybe not. But I sure feel this way. It would be hard not to respond badly, especially if the man in question cracks wise, etc. Not saying vigilante stuff is right, but definitely understandable. I don't know that I would do any better than Alexander did, TBH.

Alexander did ok, IMHO.

I'm sure the team will be alright. I would be rallying around the guy, personally.