Jason Kelce isn’t stepping 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 normally 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
Based on what Penn State College Police inform TMZ, the investigation into the Jason Kelce encounter — presumably involving a scholar — 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 grievance about injury to non-public property.”
Most individuals would wish 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 simple to see why somebody won’t 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 courting 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 applicable and even relatable response, each to insults in direction of Travis’ brother and to the usage of the slur.
It was not Jason Kelce’s best second
Within the quick 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 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 not justify damaging somebody’s cellphone.
The counter-argument has, after all, been that the usage of the homophobic slur — considered one of a number of slurs whose use has been on the rise lately, particularly in the course of the marketing campaign of disgraced former (and future) president Donald Trump — modifications the scenario.
Slurs aren’t simply phrases, and people who hurl them as weapons ought to count on reprisal. In fact, that applies to Jason as properly. Nobody critically 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 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 courting a lady will not be typically thought-about “homosexual,” irrespective of what number of of her followers could also be.
It brings to thoughts an notorious tweet by 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 answer by asking if it’s “homosexual” for a person to impregnate Rihanna twice.
Merely put, some people have misplaced the plot. However a minimum of Jason Kelce is out of the woods … until his harasser tries to take him to civil court docket, one supposes.
