N.Y. Giant Plexico Burress shoots himself, turns himself into the police.

[Amerika-jin]

CBS Sports (http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/story/11142369)


Burress turns himself in to police, faces weapons charge

NEW YORK -- Plaxico Burress arrived at a police station early Monday, where he was expected to be charged after accidentally shooting himself in the right thigh at a Manhattan nightclub.

The New York Giants star wide receiver arrived in a black Cadillac Escalade wearing jeans and a black coat. Burress, who was not visibly limping, did not speak to the media.

Burress plans to plead not guilty to a weapon possession charge during a Monday afternoon court appearance, his lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, said outside the police station. Conviction on the charge could result in at least 3½ years in prison.

"He is standing tall. He is a mature adult," said Brafman. "I think any professional athlete in this situation would be concerned."

Brafman refused to respond to media reports about an alleged coverup, other than to say: "I think a lot of what's been in the press is not accurate."

He said Burress is feeling OK. "If they let him play, he will be able to play. ... I think he will be a superstar for the rest of his career."
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"My hope is that it plays out well and he can continue his career, because he's a good person I think, with a brilliant athletic career. And it would be a terrible sadness if an isolated incident could ruin a life," said Brafman.

The NFL is monitoring the case.

"This is a law enforcement matter and we are continuing to cooperate fully with the police," league spokesman Greg Aiello said in a statement. "In addition, it will be reviewed under our league policies."

Brafman met with Burress for about an hour Sunday at the player's home in New Jersey.

"I would ask that his fans, the Giants and the media withhold judgment in this matter until all of the facts have been disclosed," Brafman said earlier in an e-mail to the Associated Press.

Brafman is a well-known criminal lawyer who has defended mobsters and other high-profile figures, including hip-hop impresario Sean "Diddy" Combs on a bribery and gun possession charge in 2001.

Burress shot himself Friday night and was released from a hospital early Saturday, the Giants said.

"As far as we know, he's going to be OK," general manager Jerry Reese said Sunday before the Super Bowl champions' 23-7 victory at the Washington Redskins.

Giants running back Brandon Jacobs said he spoke to Burress on the phone after the game.

"I called him and made a few jokes about the situation and his laugh is what I wanted to hear," Jacobs said, according to Newsday. "If he didn't laugh I knew he was going to be down, which he shouldn't be down. It's a mistake that happened, something that shouldn't have happened and that's that."

New York police and NFL security are investigating what happened Friday. Giants linebacker Antonio Pierce was interviewed by NFL security at the team's hotel Saturday, Reese said.

The NFL wouldn't comment on the expected charge, Burress' plan to plead not guilty or the league's investigation.

"We are cooperating with the police and continuing to monitor the situation," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said.

Pierce -- who started against Washington -- reportedly was present for the latest dramatic turn in a tumultuous season of fines and suspension for Burress.

"Antonio is working on trying to beat the Redskins right now," Reese said before kickoff. "That's where his focus is and where it should be right now."

Pierce deflected several questions after the game. He wouldn't say whether he has a lawyer and when asked if he is concerned about his own situation, Pierce replied only: "No. I'm fine where I'm at."

Giants coach Tom Coughlin said he spoke to his players about Burress' situation but wouldn't get into specifics.

"We all are upset about what happened with Plaxico, and hopefully he's going to be fine and so on and so forth. That's our first concern," Coughlin said. "Once that was taken care of, we knew that he was OK, then the guys got right back to focusing on the reason we were here."

Coughlin wouldn't address Burress' future with the Giants, saying only, "Questions of that nature will be discussed going forward, I'm sure."

Hours earlier, Reese and Giants president and CEO John Mara also avoided discussing what Burress' status with the team might be.

"I want to wait until we find out all the facts and circumstances before we make any determination," Mara said. "I don't know what happened there, and until we find out exactly what happened, I'm not going to make any comment or make any decision about what his future is."

Reese and Mara said they hadn't spoken to Burress, who hurt his hamstring two weeks ago and was going to miss the game against the Redskins because of that injury.

"I reached out to him," Reese said. "I did not get a return phone call."

Mara repeatedly said the Giants would cooperate with the police and the NFL in their investigations.

Burress caught the go-ahead touchdown pass in the Giants' Super Bowl victory against the New England Patriots in February, following a regular season in which he scored a career-high 12 TDs. He was rewarded with a $35 million, five-year contract, only hours before the current season.

Burress has 35 catches for 454 yards and four touchdowns while constantly drawing double coverage this season.

Off the field, he was suspended for a game against Seattle in October and fined $117,500 for missing a team meeting and failing to notify the Giants of his absence. He said he had a family emergency.

Burress also was fined $45,000 by the NFL for his conduct during a game against San Francisco in which he abused an official and tossed a ball into the stands.

"I don't think people understand how good of a person he really is," fellow receiver Amani Toomer said after catching a 40-yard touchdown pass in the Giants' victory Sunday. "A good heart. I think he's a good guy."

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Plaxico Burress, walking without any visible limp, arrives at a New York City police station. (AP)

[il ragno]

Yeah, he's a knucklehead, but other than Typical Nigger Stupidity he hasn't done anything wrong.

He's missed meetings, skipped practices, played the superstar, etc, but those are internal, team issues. Jesus Christ, Burress' "game" is to extend his freakishly long arms over his 6'4" frame and outreach every defender on the field to the ball. I'd miss meetings too if my week-after-week role in the offense is be taller than everybody else and draw double coverage all game long. What's to "coordinate"? What "playbook"?

Yet they're using his refusal to attend practices as a kind of gateway drug to his Big Big Crime: carrying an unlicensed gun on his person.

And make no mistake: the entiurety of the Joo Yawk Media is focused with particle-beam precision on driving home the message 'carrying an unlicensed gun (in a city that makes it impossible for law-abiding folks to obtain firearms licenses) makes him a criminal WHO SHOULD BE PUNISHED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW'....repeating it ad nauseum with such sober, sullen, judgmental wrath that "possessing an unlicensed gun (in the Grand Guignol crime capital of the world, but never mind that) is just as bad as using it to rob and kill people" becomes a kind of overnight consensus reality. The New Masters of the Universe couldn't be more pleased, as they always are whenever the sheep start talking up the health benefits of shearing to each other.

If you need any more proof that Burress is being railroaded (and trust me, the irony of my defending a sullen boolie isn't lost upon me) - whenever the subject is broached, prompting the hysterical-ninny reply "well, suppose everybody walked the streets with an unlicensed gun? Is that what you want?".... the 'debate' gets cut off before anyone can clear their throat and respond 'yes, that's far preferable to the current system of wait to get shot and hope it ain't in the head or the spine'. But then, that question is never supposed to be answered...it's supposed to be trembled before.

[Larrikin]

Yeah, he's a knucklehead, but other than Typical Nigger Stupidity he hasn't done anything wrong.

He's missed meetings, skipped practices, played the superstar, etc, but those are internal, team issues. Jesus Christ, Burress' "game" is to extend his freakishly long arms over his 6'4" frame and outreach every defender on the field to the ball. I'd miss meetings too if my week-after-week role in the offense is be taller than everybody else and draw double coverage all game long.

The odd question that occurs to me (and the irony of me questioning il ragno while he's defending a guy called "Plaxico" is not lost on me either), is what the hell of a club he was going to when 6'4'' professional athletes feel so threatened as to bring their guns in there?

Otherwise I agree that a 3 year jail term for carryng a gun and shooting himself sounds somewhat over the top. What happened to fines?
Hell, people got away with less for using a gun.

[Count Eustace II]

You got it right IR on that one. You can't even own a shotgun in Jew York City without jumping through all kinds of hoops. As for Burress, that lawyer will get him off with a slap on the wrist even though Mayor-for-life Bloomberg is demanding Burress go to jail.

[leondegrance]

Negroes and firearms do not mix.

[MadScienceType]

Yet they're using his refusal to attend practices as a kind of gateway drug to his Big Big Crime: carrying an unlicensed gun on his person.

And make no mistake: the entiurety of the Joo Yawk Media is focused with particle-beam precision on driving home the message 'carrying an unlicensed gun (in a city that makes it impossible for law-abiding folks to obtain firearms licenses) makes him a criminal WHO SHOULD BE PUNISHED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW'....repeating it ad nauseum with such sober, sullen, judgmental wrath that "possessing an unlicensed gun (in the Grand Guignol crime capital of the world, but never mind that) is just as bad as using it to rob and kill people" becomes a kind of overnight consensus reality. The New Masters of the Universe couldn't be more pleased, as they always are whenever the sheep start talking up the health benefits of shearing to each other.

If you need any more proof that Burress is being railroaded (and trust me, the irony of my defending a sullen boolie isn't lost upon me) - whenever the subject is broached, prompting the hysterical-ninny reply "well, suppose everybody walked the streets with an unlicensed gun? Is that what you want?".... the 'debate' gets cut off before anyone can clear their throat and respond 'yes, that's far preferable to the current system of wait to get shot and hope it ain't in the head or the spine'. But then, that question is never supposed to be answered...it's supposed to be trembled before.

Bernie Goetz for mayor! If you gotta have a Jew in the mayor's office, might as well be one who has actual crime-fighting experience. Funny, out here in flyover country, the media's a lot more sotto voce when it comes to campaigning against guns, not that they don't still push for disarmament, they're just not as hysterical about it.

Yeah, I doubt the media would've been half as outraged if Plax'd sodomized a 13-year-old girl on the sidelines at halftime, but this is simply part of the pyramid of PC offenses. Lessee...Jews are higher on the Victim Totem Pole than blacks, who are about even with queers, who are higher than Mexicans, then comes women, though their position is kinda fluid, going up and down depending on the social engineering scheme-du jour that's being rammed down the culture's throat and finally the various other mud-hued trail mix that makes up the American Dream.

So, now we know that having a gun negates the Oppression Points earned by being a trod-upon minority making millions a year for catching a football. Filed for later reference.

[Niko Bellic]

Yeah, he's a knucklehead, but other than Typical Nigger Stupidity he hasn't done anything wrong.

He's missed meetings, skipped practices, played the superstar, etc, but those are internal, team issues. Jesus Christ, Burress' "game" is to extend his freakishly long arms over his 6'4" frame and outreach every defender on the field to the ball. I'd miss meetings too if my week-after-week role in the offense is be taller than everybody else and draw double coverage all game long. What's to "coordinate"? What "playbook"?

Yet they're using his refusal to attend practices as a kind of gateway drug to his Big Big Crime: carrying an unlicensed gun on his person.

And make no mistake: the entiurety of the Joo Yawk Media is focused with particle-beam precision on driving home the message 'carrying an unlicensed gun (in a city that makes it impossible for law-abiding folks to obtain firearms licenses) makes him a criminal WHO SHOULD BE PUNISHED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW'....repeating it ad nauseum with such sober, sullen, judgmental wrath that "possessing an unlicensed gun (in the Grand Guignol crime capital of the world, but never mind that) is just as bad as using it to rob and kill people" becomes a kind of overnight consensus reality. The New Masters of the Universe couldn't be more pleased, as they always are whenever the sheep start talking up the health benefits of shearing to each other.

If you need any more proof that Burress is being railroaded (and trust me, the irony of my defending a sullen boolie isn't lost upon me) - whenever the subject is broached, prompting the hysterical-ninny reply "well, suppose everybody walked the streets with an unlicensed gun? Is that what you want?".... the 'debate' gets cut off before anyone can clear their throat and respond 'yes, that's far preferable to the current system of wait to get shot and hope it ain't in the head or the spine'. But then, that question is never supposed to be answered...it's supposed to be trembled before.

Fuck yeah! To all of this post.

Guns aren't illegal, gun laws are illegal. What part of "the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" is confusing to any American? This stupid nigger might want to rethink keeping a round in the chamber, but he didn't do anything that he should go to jail for.

[Keystone]

Yeah, he's a knucklehead, but other than Typical Nigger Stupidity he hasn't done anything wrong.

He's missed meetings, skipped practices, played the superstar, etc, but those are internal, team issues. Jesus Christ, Burress' "game" is to extend his freakishly long arms over his 6'4" frame and outreach every defender on the field to the ball. I'd miss meetings too if my week-after-week role in the offense is be taller than everybody else and draw double coverage all game long. What's to "coordinate"? What "playbook"?

Yet they're using his refusal to attend practices as a kind of gateway drug to his Big Big Crime: carrying an unlicensed gun on his person.

And make no mistake: the entiurety of the Joo Yawk Media is focused with particle-beam precision on driving home the message 'carrying an unlicensed gun (in a city that makes it impossible for law-abiding folks to obtain firearms licenses) makes him a criminal WHO SHOULD BE PUNISHED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW'....repeating it ad nauseum with such sober, sullen, judgmental wrath that "possessing an unlicensed gun (in the Grand Guignol crime capital of the world, but never mind that) is just as bad as using it to rob and kill people" becomes a kind of overnight consensus reality. The New Masters of the Universe couldn't be more pleased, as they always are whenever the sheep start talking up the health benefits of shearing to each other.

If you need any more proof that Burress is being railroaded (and trust me, the irony of my defending a sullen boolie isn't lost upon me) - whenever the subject is broached, prompting the hysterical-ninny reply "well, suppose everybody walked the streets with an unlicensed gun? Is that what you want?".... the 'debate' gets cut off before anyone can clear their throat and respond 'yes, that's far preferable to the current system of wait to get shot and hope it ain't in the head or the spine'. But then, that question is never supposed to be answered...it's supposed to be trembled before.
Plaxico Burress vs the Jews. You truly are ridiculous.

[il ragno]

If I'd made that specific argument, I would be.

Nice to see you heckling from the cheap seats as usual. Ordinarily I'd ask you to explain how concern over a public feeding frenzy to max-sentence a non-criminal over a stupid accident equals seeing chuckling rabbis in drapery folds and sidewalk cracks, but I realize you're mostly here to post Shirelles videos and play a little shuffleboard, so I don't wanna tax you.

[Keystone]

The New Masters of the Universe
No jewish hive mind references at all.

Would you rather this "Boolie" Football Player get a pass while il ragno would be sent up the river for 3 years for the same infraction? That kind of outrage? LOL.
You work to get the gun laws in NYC changed. Are you doing that or are the jews too strong for you, il ragno, internet genius luminary?

[il ragno]

No jewish hive mind references at all.

Would you rather this "Boolie" Football Player get a pass while il ragno would be sent up the river for 3 years for the same infraction? That kind of outrage? LOL.
You work to get the gun laws in NYC changed. Are you doing that or are the jews too strong for you, il ragno, internet genius luminary?

That's IT? That's the comeback it took you two fucking days to assemble? Sign a petition, hot shot - and by the way, don't call Affikin-Amurrikins "boolies"?

Oh dear - is it that time again already, Keystone? Do we have to endure another round of your off-key, tuneless renditions of "Abraham, Martin and John"?

Tell me....why is it that you find the idea of somebody posting a strongly-held opinion (on a free-speech message board long known as a haven for non-pc/fringe/extreme opinion) so distasteful?

Could it be because you're experiencing male-menopause mood swings? The heartbreak of psoriasis? An erection lasting longer than four hours?

Maybe you should have your doctor test you for Salieri Syndrome. That's a condition wherein blood flow to the brain is cut off by large deposits of utter mediocrity.

[Keystone]

That's IT? That's the comeback it took you two fucking days to assemble? Sign a petition, hot shot - and by the way, don't call Affikin-Amurrikins "boolies"?

Oh dear - is it that time again already, Keystone? Do we have to endure another round of your off-key, tuneless renditions of "Abraham, Martin and John"?

Tell me....why is it that you find the idea of somebody posting a strongly-held opinion (on a free-speech message board long known as a haven for non-pc/fringe/extreme opinion) so distasteful?

Could it be because you're experiencing male-menopause mood swings? The heartbreak of psoriasis? An erection lasting longer than four hours?

Maybe you should have your doctor test you for Salieri Syndrome. That's a condition wherein blood flow to the brain is cut off by large deposits of utter mediocrity.
Now you gone and hurt my feelings.

I don't "assemble" diddly here---It took me two minutes to type my response--because that's all I care about it! 'tis true!
It doesn't take a genius to have noticed your incessant jewspam on each and every topic brought to light here! For years and years! But that's you and hey, ya gotta fill up the time somehow! You do it very well!

!!!!!

[Jake Featherston]

what the hell of a club he was going to when 6'4'' professional athletes feel so threatened as to bring their guns in there?

He was just playing "Gangsta." Most American Blacks under 50 like to do that, especially if they have the money.

[Jake Featherston]

You work to get the gun laws in NYC changed.

This jig is actually in a position to hire a prestigious attorney, and challenge his arrest on the basis of the recent Supreme Court ruling that a very similar law in the District of Columbia was an unConstitutional violation of the Second Amendment. I'm sure he's been assigned handlers who will advise him against pursuing his own personal interests in this matter (as well as those of the people of the city of New York).

[Keystone]

This jig is actually in a position to hire a prestigious attorney, and challenge his arrest on the basis of the recent Supreme Court ruling that a very similar law in the District of Columbia was an unConstitutional violation of the Second Amendment. I'm sure he's been assigned handlers who will advise him against pursuing his own personal interests in this matter (as well as those of the people of the city of New York).
They'll plea-bargain it down to reduced time in the klink, a hefty fine and "community service" I'm thinking. Whether he plays football again is up in the air.

[il ragno]

It doesn't take a genius to have noticed your incessant jewspam on each and every topic brought to light here! For years and years!

I know....it's crazy!!

What - suddenly New York City is supposedly run/controlled by Jews? I mean, what normal person even thinks like this? It's so patently ridiculous the idea isn't even worth discussing. It's just the crudest kind of religious prejudice and anybody who'd argue otherwise is just a gutter Nazi, end of story.

I mean, you're gonna be telling us all about how "Jews control the media" next. Yeah...now pull the other one, genius. I may have been born at night, but it wasn't last night!

[Amerika-jin]

N.Y. Giant Plexico (sic) Burress shoots himself, turns himself into the police.

How did I misspell such a common name as Plaxico? My apologies to Mr. Burress.