You’ll have to excuse Packers WR Donald Driver if he decides to fly down to Houston instead of play football this weekend. His father, Marvin Driver, is still hospitalized after being beaten into unconsciousness during an arrest over traffic tickets. Family members and a community activist allege that Marvin was in “perfect condition” when the officers arrived, but sometime after that, while in police custody, the 56-year-old man was beaten so severely that he was admitted to a local hospital in critical condition and listed as “unresponsive.”
(We really do not recommend putting a bat anywhere near Donald Driver and the police officers right now.)
There are no pleasant details about the incident; there never are. But as the HOUSTON CHRONICLE reports, the circumstances surrounding this alleged assault paint the officers involved in a particularly unsavory light:
Marvin Driver was in the driveway of his mother’s residence in the 8300 block of Gibbons early Monday, when he was approached by a Houston police officer, said family spokesman Quanell X.
“He said, ‘You’re Donald Driver’s father. I went to school with that (expletive),’ ” said the activist.
That’s when Winston Driver said he heard the exchange and stepped outside the home.
“He was told to get his (expletive) behind back in the house,” said Quanell X.
It’s worth noting that we’ve only heard from the alleged victim’s side of the story. Nobody seems to have witnessed the beating itself, save the parties directly involved, so it’ll be hard for Internal Affairs to get an unbiased account of what transpired. Still, the Houston Police Department should start stocking up on K-Y jelly, because in all likelihood, there is a mammoth civil suit being aimed straight at their posteriors as we speak.
Oh, and as for Marvin Driver himself, Quanell X said that he is “improving” and that he “cried while writing notes about his experience.” So he’s at least with it enough to write. It’s a grim story when the best thing you can say about someone is that he’s not dead, but this is how it is.
Man. Pay your parking tickets, Houston. Seriously.
3:30 pm on November 20th, 2008
If that don't beat all.
3:40 pm on November 20th, 2008
How much can you really trust an "activist" named Quanell X?
This is all whitey's fault, probably.
4:27 pm on November 20th, 2008
ARE YOU KIDDING ME QUANELL X, GET A REAL JOB QUANELL AND DROP THE X!!!
JIM X
10:46 am on November 21st, 2008
The above three respondants have missed the facts, and that is, the man was critically beaten while in police custody. What does Quantell X's name have to do with what was suffered by Mr Driver? It is this exact kind of ignorance that would make a police officer feel empowered to harm those they have been entrusted to protect. I pray for Mr. Driver and his family, as well as, all the victims of police brutality. This kind of treatment of human beings by government peace officers will and have to stop now! Who beat Mr. Driver? Who Witnessed it? Who took him to the hospital? Who can Identify these criminals? People are tired of these stories because they are true, and the victims are usually not lying. Some way, some how, some day, those officers will reap worst than what they sowed. A national boycout should be held, and a city wide boycout in Houston to shut down the city for a month, until the matter have been properly investigated by a civilian review board because the police department have NO Credibilty in America, and are seen as criminals, cowards, liers, rapists, murderers, deceivers; so much so, that they have had to create "A Blue Wall of Silence because the acts they commit are worth being covered up from those they should protect. I pray that threw the new President elect, and Congress that the entire Department of Justice is recontructed from the ground up, the old need to be removed to make room for the new bec ause it is corrupted to the core.