Been Googling and reading everything I could find on the guy. Where was he indicted on 16 counts in relation to the Vegas incident? And how do you know he did what Smollett did? Where do you even get that?
And how do you or anyone else know what happened in the Superbowl in Houston? We don't. Only the people there know - what they know, and what they "know" is probably severely limited given the confusion and craziness of the moment. Bennett's sister says she has video of them running down to the field, the case wasn't even filed for a year, and here we are, a year later still, and nothing's happened? I'll wait for the facts to make a judgment there, as I did with Edelman and the club incident - although I doubt anything will ever come of this at all. Bennett's attorney sounds like someone who's got video that will make prosecutors look rather stupid. Bottom line, though, unless he had video to the contrary, the Houston police chief was way out of line with his verbal bombs against Bennett. Way out of line.
In any case, the reading about Bennett has been enlightening, both regarding him and the reactions to him. One thing for sure, reading his quotes, he's quite intelligent - his brother didn't get all the brains.
As for him being a "piece of s***," as so many seem to say:
Michael Bennett’s Political Football
"He and Pele started a foundation focused on food justice, with programs in Seattle and Hawaii. They had two more daughters, Blake and Ollie, and began devoting more of their time to causes centered on women and girls. Bennett helped set up a nutrition camp on a Native American reservation and a coding camp in Senegal, and organized women’s-empowerment summits for young girls of color."
Well...
That New Yorker piece is the most comprehensive of anything I've read. Worth a few minutes of your day.
