The New York Jets need to make a resounding statement against child endangerment by cutting defensive lineman Sheldon Richardson.
Richardson was arrested on July 14, shortly before midnight, as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. He was charged with resisting arrest after police clocked him going as fast as 143 miles per hour in a 2014 Bentley Silver Spur.
Excessive speed is one thing, evading cops is another, but this story gets worse still: Richardson reportedly had a 12-year-old child in the car with him, the vehicle smelled of marijuana and the cops found a fully loaded semi-automatic handgun in the vehicle that Richardson may or may not have been reaching for before being ordered out of the car at gunpoint:
“An officer said in court documents that he ordered Richardson and the two male passengers out at gunpoint because Richardson at appeared to be reaching for something.