The news of Michael Bennett’s unnecessary police brutality encounter has spread and this is probably the best demonstration of the fight we are all involved in. His brother Martellus, broke down as he saw the video.
You just think, ‘What if?’ You know? Two seconds this way, two seconds that way, the whole thing is different. So for me, I’ll just be happy to see my brother, because there’s a chance I couldn’t see him.
This is just a snippet of what Martellus Bennett had to share with the media and it really makes you stop and reflect on so many things. What could’ve happened? What if it could’ve been another Philando Castile? If this doesn’t show you something, I’m not sure what will. Martellus also shared that he had to leave his meetings because he couldn’t take seeing those images.
“I didn’t even know there was a video,” Martellus said. “I had to walk out of meetings because I broke down crying, just thinking about what could have happened, what could have been. It was just so close. You never know these days.”
But the fighter in Michael still exists.
“Michael’s doing well,” Martellus said. “I think the first couple days were really tough. I think he’s doing well. He has a lot of support, a lot of good support, a lot of friends, but he’s doing well. I’m very proud of Michael and the way that he handled it,” Martellus said. “There’s a lot of guys who told him not to say anything. It may be a distraction. You don’t need to say anything. You’re alive, you lived through it, why tell anyone your story? For me, I think that’s the wrong way to go about it. I think his letter, it was eloquent. You had to empathize with the side of the story that he was telling, what happened to him.”
Be sure to look out for the game this Sunday as the Packers-Seahawks play each other.
“Life goes so fast and seasons go so fast,” Martellus said. “You don’t get to spend as much time with family. So, it’s pretty good to have so much family coming to town this weekend, being able to see him and have dinner with him and talk to him and different things like that — and then go out there and try to kick his ass.”
At this point, are we really surprised anymore? This numb feeling is very foreign.
