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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.
Though many have defended him for seemingly damaging the harasser’s cellphone, it’s often unlawful to destroy somebody’s property.
However, authorities say that the retired soccer participant is off the hook.
No, Jason Kelce isn’t in bother for the cellphone incident
According to what Penn State University Police inform TMZ, the investigation into the Jason Kelce encounter — presumably involving a pupil — is now closed.
“The particular 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 University Police with a associated grievance about injury to private property.”
Most individuals would wish to come ahead if somebody, not to mention a celeb, grabbed their cellphone and hurled it onto the bottom. But given the circumstances, it’s simple to see why somebody won’t wish to confess to being the individual in query.
As chances are you’ll 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 of 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 most interesting second
In the speedy aftermath, Jason repeated the slur — for which he has apologized on ESPN.
“Listen, I’m not pleased with something that passed off,” he affirmed. “I’m not pleased with it.”
Jason allocuted: “In a heated second, I selected to greet hate with hate and I simply don’t suppose 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’t justify damaging somebody’s cellphone.
The counter-argument has, in fact, been that the usage of the homophobic slur — one among a number of slurs whose use has been on the rise in recent times, particularly through the marketing campaign of disgraced former (and future) president Donald Trump — modifications the scenario.
Slurs will not be simply phrases, and those that hurl them as weapons ought to anticipate reprisal. Of course, that applies to Jason as nicely. No one significantly 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 most likely put this bizarre, bizarre incident behind him
We nonetheless have questions about why the unnamed troll used a homophobic slur, particularly, to consult with Travis Kelce. A person courting a girl shouldn’t be typically thought of “homosexual,” irrespective of what number of of her followers could also be.
It brings to thoughts an notorious tweet wherein a Twitter rando mentioned 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.
Simply put, some people have misplaced the plot. But at the very least Jason Kelce is out of the woods … until his harasser tries to take him to civil courtroom, one supposes.
