And all of that happened before the police got to the house a short time after the call? Doesn’t that seem incredibly unlikely?Īnd here’s another question, look how visible this gate is from the street and sidewalk, there wasn’t a single person out in Brentwood driving past, jogging, or walking their dogs early in the morning before police were called or this gate was repainted? Remember, police weren’t called until 6:44 am. Why did someone paint over the slur on the gate? If you were reporting a crime, wouldn’t you leave the crime scene untouched? Isn’t that the most basic of crime scene knowledge? Isn’t the type of spray paint important here when it comes to catching the perpetrator(s)? If you were worried about what the neighbors would think, couldn’t you either cover the slur up with a bedsheet or, even simpler, open the gate since the gate slides open so as to be entirely invisible from the street?įurthermore, they already had the paint to repaint the gate at the house? And there was someone there to repaint it that early in the morning with the exact right color of paint and with that little amount of time passing between the call to police and the police arriving? Have you driven in LA traffic before? Unless LeBron employs a full-time painter who lives at the home that seems just about impossible. This is the gate outside LeBron’s house according to KTLA.
The racial slur was painted over before police arrived. Let’s consider additional reported facts:ġ. Why is that? I honestly think it’s because most people in media are so afraid of being called racist that they won’t question anything involving race or a black athlete.īut this story, at least not the public facts themselves, just doesn’t make sense. Yet somehow, despite the millions of words expended on this story, I’m the only person in sports media asking questions about this case. We don’t know what happened, or even if it happened at all, and we don’t know who did it. Just about every single person in media - and the NAACP - has assumed that a racist white person wrote a racial slur on LeBron James’s mansion and every response since then, LeBron’s awkward press conference, which was praised even though it was nonsensical, just about every media member’s anti-racism take - so brave! - has been predicated on this assumption.īut what is actually public at this point? Virtually nothing. That’s it, that’s the sum total upon which millions of spoken and written words have ensued. There is no surveillance video of the alleged crime and the picture has not been publicly released.When police arrived the alleged racist graffiti had already been painted over and police were, according to the LAPD, provided a photo of what the graffiti on the gate had looked like.At 6:44 am on Wednesday morning, the day before the NBA Finals began, someone called police to report an incident of racist graffiti at LeBron James’s house.So let’s dial back the rhetoric and reiterate what we know: The NAACP wants the president to apologize despite the fact that we don’t know if a crime happened or who did it. Furthermore, we call on the Trump Administration to stand up and speak out against these attacks.” The NAACP will not sit idly while our people continue to be assailed by racist and cowardly actions. “Leaving a noose - a symbol and weapon of hate - in front of the (museum) and vandalizing the home of NBA superstar LeBron James underscore the recent increase in hate crimes committed against African Americans under the Trump administration. “We are deeply troubled and disturbed by the heinous acts of racism that occurred on Wednesday,” the NAACP said. So after five days of histrionic media coverage, most of which lionized LeBron James for his response to racism, we still have zero public evidence that any crime actually happened and the Los Angeles police department only has one photo provided by someone at LeBron’s residence.ĭespite the lack of evidence of whether a crime happened or not and zero evidence of who might have perpetrated this crime if it did happen, the NAACP has demanded that Donald Trump apologize to LeBron James. I was also told there had been no surveillance video entered into evidence in this case. The only evidence I was told the police department had logged was a photo of the graffiti on the gate provided by the individual(s) at LeBron James’s Los Angeles residence. The LAPD said they had nothing to share, including the police report itself. On Friday afternoon I called the Los Angeles police department to request any and all information about their investigation of the alleged racist graffiti incident on a gate outside LeBron James’s LA area home.
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