Aaron Hernandez charged with murder

[PANDFAN]

what you think of conn

some crazy @ss gangs up there...ms13, latin kings, Los Solidos

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Early years

Hernandez was born in Bristol, Connecticut.[3] His paternal grandparents were from Puerto Rico and his mother is of Italian descent.[4][5][6] He attended Bristol Central High School in Bristol, and played for the Bristol Central Rams high school football team as a wide receiver.[7] As a senior, he was the Connecticut Gatorade Football Player of the Year after making 67 receptions for 1,807 yards and 24 touchdowns on offense, and 72 tackles, 12 sacks, three forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries and four blocked kicks on defense.[7] The 1,807 receiving yards and 24 touchdowns were a state record and his 31 touchdowns tied the state record. He also set the state record for receiving yards in a single game with 376, which was the seventh best total in national high school history, and set a national high school record for yards receiving per game with 180.7. Hernandez was considered the top tight end recruit in 2007 by Scout.com.[8]

College career

At first he committed to play for the University of Connecticut,[9] but Hernandez ultimately enrolled at the University of Florida, where he played for coach Urban Meyer's Florida Gators football team from 2007 to 2009.[10]

As a true freshman in 2007, Hernandez appeared in 13 games for the Gators, starting three. He finished the season with nine receptions for 151 yards and two touchdowns. As a sophomore in 2008, he started 11 of 13 games in place of the injured Cornelius Ingram, and finished the season with 34 receptions for 381 yards and five touchdowns. In the 2009 BCS National Championship Game against the Oklahoma Sooners, Hernandez led the Gators in receiving yards with 57 on five receptions, as the Gators defeated the Sooners 24–14 to win their second national championship in three seasons.[11]

As a junior in 2009, Hernandez won the John Mackey Award, given annually to the nation's best tight end, after leading the Gators in receptions with 68 for 850 yards and five touchdowns. He was also a first-team All-Southeastern Conference selection and was recognized as a first-team All-American by the Associated Press, College Football News and the The Sporting News.[10] Hernandez finished his college career with 111 receptions for 1,382 yards and 12 touchdowns.

After his junior year, he decided to forgo his senior season and enter the 2010 NFL Draft.

Interesting.

 

[PANDFAN]

i would assume that they will also look at his tats...as i am sure he has some ink if he is in...i have many tattoos so i am not saying because he has tattoos he is in a gang but rather he is widely known to be affiliated w/ latin kings

 

[Me2SouthBend]

Connecticut is one of the smallest states in the United States but has the highest number of cities (tied with Ohio) that made it onto our list of the 25 Most Dangerous Cities in America.
Three cities in the small New England state — Bridgeport, New Haven, and Hartford — were ranked among the most dangerous in the country. Connecticut, like other states in the Northeast, has a growing gang problem that could be contributing to violent crime.

Bristol is right down the line from Hartford to New Haven/Bridgeport.....living in a small PA town..we see this just like big cities because they are just stops along the way...lower amount of police...easier for distrubution etc.

i would assume that they will also look at his tats...as i am sure he has some ink if he is in...i have many tattoos so i am not saying because he has tattoos he is in a gang but rather he is widely known to be affiliated w/ latin kings

Bloods, not Latin Kings.

Aaron Hernandez -- The Signs of a Gang Member | TMZ.com

 

[Emcee77]

I have to preface this by admitting that I have virtually no knowledge of Hernandez's background. Maybe he's just a sociopath who enjoyed all sorts of middle-class advantages growing up.

But assuming he comes from a culture of poverty, why are we surprised by this? Such people don't suddenly adopt bourgeois values when they become rich. This kind of thing happens every day in poor communities across the country, but we rarely hear about it because it's expected.

So why are we shocked when someone elevated from an impoverished culture turns out to be poor? Perhaps we're just not used to seeing it.

I guess not. I think many of us tend to think that kids join gangs and do gangster $hit because they don't have any other options, and that if someone just showed those kids another way, they'd give up the gangster $hit. People like Aaron Hernandez and Sam Hurd, the Chicago Bear who got busted for smuggling and dealing drugs, show that it's much more complicated than that.

 

[Jebediah Springfield]

I guess not. I think many of us tend to think that kids join gangs and do gangster $hit because they don't have any other options, and that if someone just showed those kids another way, they'd give up the gangster $hit. People like Aaron Hernandez and http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9161002/sam-hurd-pleads-guilty-drug-charge"] Sam Hurd, the Chicago Bear who got busted for smuggling and dealing drugs, show that it's much more complicated than that.

I can think of real life examples of the opposite. Just saying...

 

[mgriff]

And more at this link #Hernandezing: Even Murders Get to Be Memes Now -- Daily Intelligencer

 

[Me2SouthBend]

SIAP but here is another report from todays Boston Globe.

Former Patriots player Aaron Hernandez is probed in two more murders, law enforcement officials say - Boston.com

 

[Emcee77]

I can think of real life examples of the opposite. Just saying...

No doubt. Just saying, for some people old habits die hard.

For white people like me, everything comes back to the Wire. Some people are Stringer Bell. Once they get a little money, they want to get out of street-level criminal shenanigans and move into legitimate business. Others are Avon Barksdale. They just want their street corners. Hernandez apparently is a corner boy.

 

[NDWorld247]

You can take the boy out of the hood, but you can't take the hood out of the boy. Ultimately, Hernandez is responsible for who he associates with and what activities he participates in, but leaving everyone you grew up with behind is a lot harder than some make it out to be.

 

[STLDomer]

Did ND recruit Hernandez hard out of HS? Rivals lists him w/ an offer.

 

[IrishLax]

Did ND recruit Hernandez hard out of HS? Rivals lists him w/ an offer.

If memory serves me correctly absolutely not. He was a UCONN commit who switched really early in the cycle to Florida and stuck with it. I don't remember him wavering or really looking at other schools.

 

[PANDFAN]

Bloods, not Latin Kings.

Aaron Hernandez -- The Signs of a Gang Member | TMZ.com

Bloods Maintain alliances with People Nation gangs including a longstanding alliance with the Latin Kings in Connecticut. he has been reportedly known to be w/ latin kings...this could further support this

 

[irishog77]

Since I don't get Channel 1 anymore, I thought street gangs, like AIDS, were a thing of the past.

 

[ACamp1900]

I haven't folowed all the side details closely at all... who is that getting arrested with him??

 

[PANDFAN]

I haven't folowed all the side details closely at all... who is that getting arrested with him??

that would be the new internet thing...like tebowing...it's called hernandezing...dead serious---it's just some random kid putting his pic up of his hands like how hernandez was

 

[ACamp1900]

OHHHhhh, I got the hernandezing thing... I thought that one pic was of two people being taken form AH's home...

gotcha.

 

[PANDFAN]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>ALL-PRISON TEAM
Mike Vick
Plaxico Burress
PACMAN Jones
Aaron Hernandez
Sam Hurd
Ricky Williams
Chad Johnson
Rae Carruth
Coach: O.J. Simpson</p>— SC Not Top Ten (@SCNotTopTen) <a href="https://twitter.com/SCNotTopTen/statuses/350335944320229379">June 27, 2013</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Jebediah Springfield]

No doubt. Just saying, for some people old habits die hard.

For white people like me, everything comes back to the Wire. Some people are Stringer Bell. Once they get a little money, they want to get out of street-level criminal shenanigans and move into legitimate business. Others are Avon Barksdale. They just want their street corners. Hernandez apparently is a corner boy.

Agree. The Wire is full of life lessons.

 

[irishog77]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>ALL-PRISON TEAM
Mike Vick
Plaxico Burress
PACMAN Jones
Aaron Hernandez
Sam Hurd
Ricky Williams
Chad Johnson
Rae Carruth
Coach: O.J. Simpson</p>— SC Not Top Ten (@SCNotTopTen) <a href="https://twitter.com/SCNotTopTen/statuses/350335944320229379">June 27, 2013</a></blockquote>
<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Can't forget Bam Morris either. He was real smart. Or Jamal Lewis.

How the hell did Nate Newton not ever get like 60 years in prison either??????

 

[Irish Insanity]

You can take the boy out of the hood, but you can't take the hood out of the boy. Ultimately, Hernandez is responsible for who he associates with and what activities he participates in, but leaving everyone you grew up with behind is a lot harder than some make it out to be.

Especially when your drafted by a team close to where you grew up.

 

[ACamp1900]

Richard Incognito


??

 

[ND NYC]

he is Latin King "fo sho"

ps need to add Ray Lewis to the list above

 

[Irish Insanity]

Just saw on the SC bottom line scroll that they also searched his uncles home in Conn. today

 

[IrishLax]

Per Schefter they've located a SUV they were looking for in connection to the 2012 homicides. It was rented by Hernandez.

 

[Bogtrotter07]

I have to tell you guys, I am seeing racism and classism creeping its way into this thread. Racism is clear; by classism I mean the same sort of stereotypical false generalization about a different, usually lower class, than one belongs.

The odd, ironic joke is with the economy down the crapper, there isn't quite so much separating the classes anymore.

The truth is, I know a lot of individuals that would be considered lower middle-class, to poor, to abjectly poor, to endangered. You know what? I still see plenty of my Mom's upper class family and friends, and I wake up each day in my upper middle class world, (as it still exists, a former shadow of itself) and I believe that their are fewer scumbags among the lower sociological groups than among the upper. It is just that sometimes they stand out more, and of course everyone makes a bigger deal of it with their own fears and prejudices.

Edit: LOL, as I was proofing this I thought of my Mom. She and dad had friends. People they had socialized with for years. Mom was so mad because of what they did. It was so funny to see my little old lady go off the edge on the opinion meter! She would get so mad and animated! Seems this couple would go to the Hometown Buffet, with plastic bags in their baggy pockets, and they would load up. Mom saw them as a modern day Bonnie and Clyde. Without the guns. And the violence. And the gang. And the money. Oh yeah and without the bloodshed. But these two would do their best to wipe out that all you can eat buffet! Now the b1tch of it all is they were worth about 1 to 3M liquid. That is with no (read zero) debt. Now, do you know what it is like to be a kid, hungry, with no prospects of food in sight? I have met people in that situation. It happens more than you think!

 

[gkIrish]

Per Schefter they've located a SUV they were looking for in connection to the 2012 homicides. It was rented by Hernandez.

 

[Redbar]

Since I don't get Channel 1 anymore, I thought street gangs, like AIDS, were a thing of the past.

You watch channel zero?

 

[Booslum31]

I have to tell you guys, I am seeing racism and classism creeping its way into this thread. Racism is clear; by classism I mean the same sort of stereotypical false generalization about a different, usually lower class, than one belongs.

The odd, ironic joke is with the economy down the crapper, there isn't quite so much separating the classes anymore.

The truth is, I know a lot of individuals that would be considered lower middle-class, to poor, to abjectly poor, to endangered. You know what? I still see plenty of my Mom's upper class family and friends, and I wake up each day in my upper middle class world, (as it still exists, a former shadow of itself) and I believe that their are fewer scumbags among the lower sociological groups than among the upper. It is just that sometimes they stand out more, and of course everyone makes a bigger deal of it with their own fears and prejudices.

Edit: LOL, as I was proofing this I thought of my Mom. She and dad had friends. People they had socialized with for years. Mom was so mad because of what they did. It was so funny to see my little old lady go off the edge on the opinion meter! She would get so mad and animated! Seems this couple would go to the Hometown Buffet, with plastic bags in their baggy pockets, and they would load up. Mom saw them as a modern day Bonnie and Clyde. Without the guns. And the violence. And the gang. And the money. Oh yeah and without the bloodshed. But these two would do their best to wipe out that all you can eat buffet! Now the b1tch of it all is they were worth about 1 to 3M liquid. That is with no (read zero) debt. Now, do you know what it is like to be a kid, hungry, with no prospects of food in sight? I have met people in that situation. It happens more than you think!

Hernandez had much more cash than the $1-3M your parents friends have. I don't think that race is creeping in here. I think outrage to a despicable human being is the reaction
we are seeing.

 

[Bluto]

what you think of conn

some crazy @ss gangs up there...ms13, latin kings, Los Solidos

Just curious , who are the other category?