Jonathan Martin was 5150'd in Los Angeles on Friday, according to various reports.
I don't think the Instagram post he made is still up anywhere, because it was deemed threatening to his former high school (where, like the NFL, he has apparently been bullied into persona non grata status), so Harvard-Westlake High School near LA, his former school, was closed on Friday, and he was detained and eventually 5150'd.
For stating that there were only really two ways out of bullying: Suicide, or the situation that killed 17 in Florida... And he had that message with a picture of a gun which was apparently in his possession, and put the name of the school on the gun.
He's right.
I know I have caused my old hometown a few upraised and waving hands when I said that the only reason I was allowed to graduate, being bullied myself, was that because "Columbine" was not a word in the American lexicon.
I believe that to be the case. And I don't I'd have had to say anything.
Because the thing that Martin has learned repeatedly is that he, even as Football Man, is not a Preferred Man -- hence, he has no rights nor powers.
I hope he can get the help he needs before some combination of bullying and CTE brings this to a most predictable end...
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