ESPNW ran a story about Hope Solo that painted her as a victim and misunderstood. Often with ESPN they either are telling both sides of the story or just playing both sides of the coin (see coverage of Floyd Mayweather as an example). Whatever the case Outside the Lines has gotten the REAL EVIDENCE that paints Solo as what she is a violent, angry, bully and abuser.
Here are just a few of the snippets from Solo’s rage.
Solo followed him into the home’s converted garage, where the teenager then yelled for his mother, prompting Solo to call him a “pussy” and a “mama’s boy,” he said to police and in his deposition, which is also under seal but was obtained by Outside the Lines. He then told Solo, “You’ll never know what it’s like to be a mother, because even if you did have children, they would have the most unhappy childhoods because you have no compassion.” He told police Solo lunged at him to “take a swing,” hitting him lightly in the face. He said she charged and struck him multiple times. Obert, who had come into the room, said in her deposition and in an interview with Outside the Lines that her son briefly subdued Solo and she seemed to calm down. Obert told the teenager to let his aunt up off the ground. “She’s done,” Obert recalled telling her son, according to her deposition. He didn’t believe his mom, but she said, “No, she’s done. You can let go, she’s done.”
But when Obert’s son let Solo go, he told police she “immediately grabbed his hair, pulled his head down and started punching him in the face repeatedly.” Later, in the deposition, he said Solo “jumped on top of me and started bashing my head into the cement” inside the garage.
“She grabbed him by the head and she kept slamming him into the cement over and over again,” Obert told Outside the Lines. “So I came from behind her, and I pulled her over and, you know, to get her off my son. And then, once she got off, she started punching me in the face over and over again.”
Obert’s son, according to Officer Elizabeth Voss, had redness around his nose and left jawbone and a “bleeding cut on the bottom of his left ear, just above the earlobe.” His T-shirt was ripped and his arms were “bright red and had scratch marks.”
Obert “had bruising on the left side of her face,” and “a large scratch mark on the right side of her neck,” according to Officer Chuck Pierce. He wrote that Obert’s clothing was in “disarray” and it “appeared she could not stand.”
It was early in the morning on June 21, 2014, and Hope Solo had just been arrested on two counts of domestic violence. The police were trying to book her into jail, but Solo was so combative that she had to be forced to the ground, prompting her to yell at one officer, “You’re such a b—-. You’re scared of me because you know that if the handcuffs were off, I’d kick your ass.”
Solo, perhaps the best women’s soccer goalie in the world, had repeatedly hurled insults at the officers processing her arrest, suggesting that two jailers were having sex and calling another officer a “14-year-old boy.” When asked to remove a necklace, an apparently drunk Solo told the officer that the piece of jewelry was worth more than he made in a year.
Sounds like awesome lady.
But, it gets better, US Soccer did nothing to investigate the abuse and guess who is going to be the goalie for Team USA when the World Cup starts?
You guessed it Hope Solo.
Here is the thing, I don’t have an issue with Solo playing, my issue is with how male and female athletes are treated differently by the media when doing the same thing. Violent behavior should be treated the same no matter if you are Brittney Griner or Greg Hardy.
Hope Solo is an alcoholic and abuser, but it is sort of just brushed aside because she is a woman and plays a sport that isn’t on the National Radar as much.
I understand there are double standards in this world, we can do nothing about, but as individuals you have to ask yourself are you being hypocrites? The mirror never lies.