Jason Kelce isn’t entering into hassle for his Penn State phone-slamming incident, it appears.
Earlier this autumn, a bizarre troll charged as much as Jason Kelce and spewed homophobic slurs. The deed was despicable, however the context was deeply weird.
Although many have defended him for seemingly damaging the harasser’s cellphone, it’s normally unlawful to destroy somebody’s property.
Nonetheless, authorities say that the retired soccer participant is off the hook.
No, Jason Kelce isn’t in hassle for the cellphone incident
Based on what Penn State College Police tell TMZ, the investigation into the Jason Kelce encounter — presumably involving a pupil — is now closed.
“The person within the video footage circulating on social media has not been recognized,” a spokesperson for the division defined. “And nobody has come ahead to College Police with a associated criticism about harm to non-public property.”
Most individuals would wish to come ahead if somebody, not to mention a star, grabbed their cellphone and hurled it onto the bottom. However given the circumstances, it’s straightforward to see why somebody may not wish to confess to being the individual in query.
As you might recall, some rando approached Jason Kelce again in November.
“Kelce, how does it really feel that your brother is a f—-t for dating Taylor Swift,” the troll spewed, utilizing a homophobic slur within the course of. (No, it doesn’t make sense in context)
Travis’ response was to seize the unidentified people’ cellphone and spike it to the bottom. Many thought of that to be an applicable and even relatable response, each to insults in direction of Travis’ brother and to using the slur.
It was not Jason Kelce’s best second
Within the instant aftermath, Jason repeated the slur — for which he has apologized on ESPN.
“Hear, I’m not proud of something that befell,” he affirmed. “I’m not happy with it.”
Jason allocuted: “In a heated second, I selected to greet hate with hate and I simply don’t suppose that’s a productive factor. I actually don’t.”
Some have been vital of Jason responding to the troll in any respect, arguing that phrases can’t justify damaging somebody’s cellphone.
The counter-argument has, in fact, been that using the homophobic slur — one in all a number of slurs whose use has been on the rise in recent times, particularly in the course of the marketing campaign of disgraced former (and future) president Donald Trump — adjustments the state of affairs.
Slurs will not be simply phrases, and those that hurl them as weapons ought to count on reprisal. After all, that applies to Jason as effectively. Nobody severely believes Jason to be homophobic, and it’s good that he apologized … however he shouldn’t have used the slur within the first place.
He can most likely put this bizarre, bizarre incident behind him
We nonetheless have questions about why the unnamed troll used a homophobic slur, particularly, to seek advice from Travis Kelce. A person courting a girl shouldn’t be usually thought of “homosexual,” regardless of what number of of her followers could also be.
It brings to thoughts an notorious tweet through which a Twitter rando stated that A$AP Rocky was homosexual or effeminate in a photoshoot with Rihanna. This led different social media customers to reply by asking if it’s “homosexual” for a person to impregnate Rihanna twice.
Merely put, some of us have misplaced the plot. However no less than Jason Kelce is out of the woods … except his harasser tries to take him to civil court docket, one supposes.
