Cam Robinson and Hootie Jones had drugs and weapons charges pressed against them in May while in Monroe, Louisiana. We all know the rhetoric that followed.
First.
“When will they ever learn?”
Then.
“They’ll get away with it because they play at Alabama.”
And, yes they got away with it, but is that how you should view it? It is so easy to read the headlines without catching the story in between. The knee-jerk reaction is to say that they only got away with because they are Alabama football players.
But how did we get from weapons and drugs charges, to charges dropped?