Jason Kelce isn’t moving 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 scholar — is now closed.
“The individual in the video footage circulating on social media has not been identified,” a spokesperson for the division defined. “And no one has come forward to University Police with a related complaint about damage to personal property.”
Most individuals would need 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 straightforward to see why somebody may not need to confess to being the particular person in query.
As it’s possible you’ll recall, some rando approached Jason Kelce again in November.
“Kelce, how does it feel that your brother is a f—-t for dating 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 acceptable and even relatable response, each to insults in the direction of Travis’ brother and to using the slur.
It was not Jason Kelce’s most interesting second
In the instant aftermath, Jason repeated the slur — for which he has apologized on ESPN.
“Listen, I’m not happy with anything that took place,” he affirmed. “I’m not proud of it.”
Jason allocuted: “In a heated moment, I chose to greet hate with hate and I just don’t think that’s a productive thing. I really don’t.”
Some have been essential of Jason responding to the troll in any respect, arguing that phrases can not justify damaging somebody’s cellphone.
The counter-argument has, in fact, been that using the homophobic slur — one in every of a number of slurs whose use has been on the rise lately, particularly in the course of the marketing campaign of disgraced former (and future) president Donald Trump — adjustments the state of affairs.
Slurs will not be simply phrases, and people who hurl them as weapons ought to count on reprisal. Of course, that applies to Jason as properly. No one critically believes Jason to be homophobic, and it’s good that he apologized … however he mustn’t have used the slur within the first place.
He can in all probability put this bizarre, bizarre incident behind him
We nonetheless have questions about why the unnamed troll used a homophobic slur, particularly, to confer with Travis Kelce. A person courting a girl just isn’t typically thought of “gay,” irrespective of what number of of her followers could also be.
It brings to thoughts an notorious tweet through which a Twitter rando mentioned that A$AP Rocky was homosexual or effeminate in a photoshoot with Rihanna. This led different social media customers to reply by asking if it’s “gay” for a person to impregnate Rihanna twice.
Simply put, some people have misplaced the plot. But at the least Jason Kelce is out of the woods … except his harasser tries to take him to civil courtroom, one supposes.