Yesterday we reported on a Cowboys’ fan that somehow snuck a taser into the Cowboys vs. Jets game (Video: Cowboys Fan Sneaks Taser into Game & Proceeds to Tase Jets Fans).
That is where we thought the story ended, but it appears it has a few more twists and turn.
Here are the details.
“He was attacked by four or five Jets fans for having a Dallas jersey on,” said McKelvey, who is a host of “The Breakfast Club” morning show on Power 105 as Charlamagne Tha God.
When his father didn’t stand for part of the opening ceremony, McKelvey said Jets fans started heckling the group.
“Where was security in the stadium?” McKelvey said.
McKelvey said that his father didn’t know it was illegal to have a Taser. He was wrong to bring the weapon, McKelvey said, but he was attacked.
“My father was rooting for his team,” McKelvey said. “Jets fans got upset but that doesn’t give them the right to jump a 59-year-old man.”
Deadspin is reporting one of the fans McKelvey tased was a Marine.
A Marine at the end of the row noticed that McKelvey and three others in his party would not stand or take their hats off for the national anthem,” a law enforcement officer said. “So the Marine tells McKelvey he better not have to get out of the row cause he won’t let him out.”
Sure enough, during the halftime show, McKelvey got up. Words were exchanged.
A couple of things, there no way McKelvey should have brought a taser to a game and how did security allow this to happen on 9/11 of all days?
That doesn’t make me feel comfortable about my safety at major sporting events.
With that being said the Marine was TOTALLY IN THE WRONG. It was McKelvey’s right not to stand or take off his hat during the National Anthem. It maybe in poor taste, but that is no reason to make a threat which is what the Marine did. There is no law saying you have to stand during the National Anthem. Furthermore there are laws to protect people from bully threats.
If the Marine and Jets fans started to attack Mr. McKelvey he is within his rights to defend himself even if it was with an illegal weapon.
My question is why wasn’t the Marine or the other Jets fans not arrested as well, since they were the instigators?
I think you know the answer to that.