Jason Kelce isn’t entering into bother 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 often unlawful to destroy somebody’s property.
Nevertheless, authorities say that the retired soccer participant is off the hook.
No, Jason Kelce isn’t in bother for the cellphone incident
In keeping with what Penn State College Police inform 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 need to come ahead if somebody, not to mention a celeb, grabbed their cellphone and hurled it onto the bottom. However given the circumstances, it’s straightforward to see why somebody may not need to confess to being the individual in query.
As you could recall, some rando approached Jason Kelce again in November.
“Kelce, how does it really feel that your brother is a f—-t for relationship 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-about that to be an acceptable and even relatable response, each to insults in the direction of Travis’ brother and to using the slur.
It was not Jason Kelce’s best second
Within the fast aftermath, Jason repeated the slur — for which he has apologized on ESPN.
“Pay attention, I’m not pleased with something that occurred,” he affirmed. “I’m not pleased with it.”
Jason allocuted: “In a heated second, I selected to greet hate with hate and I simply don’t assume 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 every of a number of slurs whose use has been on the rise in recent times, particularly through the marketing campaign of disgraced former (and future) president Donald Trump — adjustments the scenario.
Slurs should not simply phrases, and those that hurl them as weapons ought to anticipate reprisal. In fact, that applies to Jason as nicely. Nobody significantly believes Jason to be homophobic, and it’s good that he apologized … however he mustn’t have used the slur within the first place.
He can in all probability put this bizarre, bizarre incident behind him
We nonetheless have questions about why the unnamed troll used a homophobic slur, particularly, to discuss with Travis Kelce. A person relationship a lady shouldn’t be typically thought-about “homosexual,” irrespective of what number of of her followers could also be.
It brings to thoughts an notorious tweet wherein 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 a minimum of Jason Kelce is out of the woods … until his harasser tries to take him to civil courtroom, one supposes.
