Last week’s tragic death of Kasandra Perkins and suicide of
Kansas City Chiefs Linebacker Jovan Belcher might have been prevented with a field
sobriety test. According to YahooNews: “Belcher drove after drinking last
week. Police discovered him at 3 a.m.
last Saturday sleeping off a night of partying in his Bentley, which was parked
yet running. The cops gave him a break;
he was allowed to go inside a nearby apartment complex and get some rest. Hours
later, he went home and shot Perkins nine times.”
It is no secret that drugs and alcohol, as well as other
substances can cause dangerous and violent behavior. Also, when a Bentley, which is a six-figure luxury
automobile, is parked on a regular neighborhood street, in front of workforce
type housing at 3:00am, with the driver sleeping inside and the car running,
this is not normal. In the Associated
Press video above, dash cam footage shows that there was no field sobriety test
conducted. In my view, the circumstances
alone warranted a field sobriety test and had one been conducted, it is my
opinion, that Jovan Belcher would have had to go to the police station the
night he shot the mother of his three month old child and then ran off in his
car to the training facility to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head in
front of two members of the coaching staff.
I hope this incident will change Kansas City Police
Department Policy on when to conduct a field sobriety test, because it this case
a terrible tragedy could have likely been prevented had such a test been conducted.
Yahoo News Source: Sports.Yahoo.com
Yahoo News Source: Sports.Yahoo.com
