Carlton Bragg Arrested
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He will appear in court today at 3pm . Hopefully its nothing, I had a friend get arrested for assault for pushing someone that was dismissed. We can hope its something along those lines, to me it would be stupid to waste tax dollars and time to arrest someone for pushing to start with but that’s the way it goes.
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@KUSTEVE then don’t! Please
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Like most of you, I don’t want to post things that aren’t accurate, but here’s another Rumer:
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Love it!
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Matt Galloway
Heading into Bragg’s 3 p.m. hearing now, where recording devices are not permitted. Will update after.
Just got the first page of Carlton Bragg’s criminal offense report from the LKPD. Under “type of force/weapon,” “personal weapon” checked.
Following up on this: There was a section for “none” under armed, so I would think this mean weapon involved.
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By the way Matt Galloway is a KU beat writer
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Carlton Bragg, appearing on video, pleads not guilty to charge of misdemeanor battery. Bond set at $500 OR. He will be released.
Bragg will be released after bond at 5 or 6 p.m. His next court date is 1:30 p.m. Dec. 27.
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Galloway also reporting:
The offense report indicates Bragg is suspected of using alcohol and drugs or narcotics. It also lists “personal weapon” as the type of force or weapon used.
Sounding worse by the minute.
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Personal Weapon can mean hand, foot basically Bragg’s body. Otherwise it would have been aggravated battery
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FollowingJoe Davis @ByJoeDavis Via the @KCStar, Bragg “struck his girlfriend and pushed her down stairs during an argument.”
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First reaction to that news is unless he’s cleared he’s played his last minutes in a KU uni
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@BeddieKU23 I was more referring to the narcotics reference in terms of getting worse. But pushing your lady down the stairs, if true, at six in the a of the m is not a good scene.
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@BeddieKU23 The whole story isn’t out yet. He clearly deserves a major suspension regardless. Just really sad because everything I had heard about him was that he was just the nicest guy. A bunch of my sorority friends used to hang out with him routinely and they all said that.
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@Fightsongwriter Happened at 1 a.m. but he was arrested at 6 a.m.
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Smiled in his Mug Shot as well… Bad bad press
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@BeddieKU23 link?
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@BeddieKU23 Interesting that he was supposedly high or drunk. He is smiling ear to ear in his mug shot. He will be out on bond shortly, but the question is does Self allow him to stay with the team til the next court date of December 27 or does he kick him off now.
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I’m sure he will be suspended until his court date or when he is/isn’t charged… No other choice for Self at this point. The details of the story make this a serious issue and that will not be tolerated
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https://twitter.com/ByJoeDavis/status/807338006034206725
http://www.kansascity.com/sports/college/big-12/university-of-kansas/article119896743.html
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@Kcmatt7 Uh, correct, and totally irrelevant to my point.
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@BeddieKU23 Yes I would say at this point unless his GF drops the charges he is done at Kansas.
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I will not assume what Self will do but the situation at hand would think regardless of outcome his role on the team will be hard to keep
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@BeddieKU23 agreed all we can do is shake our head. I personally think he was our best big and will hurt us very badly down the road but I will stand with what Self decides.
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I don’t think it changes much for the team as he was struggling anyway to find a role. I’m stunned because I thought he was a person who would not get himself into this type of situation. We will see more of Lightfoot and situations where 2 bigs without the ability to stretch the floor on the court.
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@BeddieKU23 Ya hope LL can find his groove or things could get interesting.
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we got 5 of the best guards in the country! JJ can play the 4 most of the time too
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@BeddieKU23 We will need solid post play at some point buddy. This team may take the look of a Roy team and have to outscore rather than play good defense.
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@Fightsongwriter well, to me at least, it is more defensable at 1 am. If you will hear out my reasoning.
At 6 am it would have seemed to be a select few people still awake and this would have seemed much more intentional, at least in they way I see it. Like pretty much only one way it could have gone down.
At 1 am, who knows what all could have happened. There are a lot more scenarios where Bragg doesn’t look like he was being a terrible person.
That is all I guess I was trying to say.
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Interesting that Joe Davis is saying he doesn’t deserve to be Jayhawk. I agree if proven guilty but kinda jumping the gun IMO.
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Any evidence? Witnesses? Pictures? We all assuming he is guilty?
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@kjayhawks said:
agreed all we can do is shake our head. I personally think he was our best big and will hurt us very badly down the road but I will stand with what Self decides.
He was and it’s not close. He was the only post player that could stretch the floor. With our current 4 bigs it’s a huge liability offensively to have two of them on the floor at once.
@BeddieKU23 said:
I don’t think it changes much for the team as he was struggling anyway to find a role. I’m stunned because I thought he was a person who would not get himself into this type of situation. We will see more of Lightfoot and situations where 2 bigs without the ability to stretch the floor on the court.
I don’t think we see two bigs out there at once that often at all now. I’ll be interested to see the post minute distribution tomorrow.
@Crimsonorblue22 said:
Any evidence? Witnesses? Pictures? We all assuming he is guilty?
Doesn’t look good at all. At the very least I doubt he plays again until January.
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I really hope he’s not guilty. Until its resolved this is negative press at the least
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@Crimsonorblue22 I would guess there is evidence at this point or it would’ve been dismissed today, not a 100% sure but @justanotherfan is a lawyer I believe.
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@BeddieKU23 said:
I really hope he’s not guilty. Until its resolved this is negative press at the least
Yeah he really shouldn’t play until it’s sorted even if he is completely innocent.
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I will guess he will suspended but not expelled from the team, doing so would send a message of guilt and I know Coach Self would not do this to a player. After the Court date and if he is found guilty then all bets are off. Just my take.
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@JayHawkFanToo You are probably correct, that’s what most logical people would do suspend indefinitely until the matter is resolved. One other thing to think about is CJ Giles was kicked off the team for this type of stuff, Mario Little was not but his GF dropped charges if I remember correctly.
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Giles was a repeat offender
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Well my friends all I’m going to say for now is - - -it doesn’t look or sound good, I agree with others, even though hasn’t been proven guilty I still think he sits until it gets cleared up/or if found guilty I think dam I dunno chances are good that he is dismissed from team. - -Just seem so in-like him mercy, I feel sorry for him, he seemed like such a personable kid. always huge smile, friendly think this is just a very unfortunate situation, IF guilty I’m not trying to make any excuses just unfortunate - -and If guilty I also feel really bad for the female, time will tell MERCY - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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I hope he didn’t hurt her. I hope they don’t kick him off the team. Such a dumb mistake.
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Going to need the other four bigs to really step up now.
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Yep. Down to 9 players now (even if temporary) and one of them is Lightfoot.
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I’d like to know what was going through Carlton Bragg’s mind when he was arrested and taken to the police station, to be smiling in his mug shot…
I’m hoping he was just really drunk and didn’t really process the situation that he was in or something…
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He was likely completely wasted at that point.
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I’m sticking w/him. I’ve been griping how soft the smiley soft spoken piano man has been playing. He has a hard time speaking in post game, he’s so shy and timid. He’s no thug! Alcohol does bad things to some, and we simply do not have facts. I do not want his life ruined for this, if he did miss up. Self will figure out his punishment and it will be fair. I’m not worried about the team, the young people involved are my concern. Where were his buddies? It was stop day. I know many lessons have been learned and I hope no long term repercussions will happen to either parties.
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If when it is all played out and IF, IF, he IS guilty as charged I think it’s going to be interesting to the punishment. I could easily see suspended for the rest of the season - -not sure about being dismissed from the team, just a really bad situation – -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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Well no sooner posted above, went to ESPN and BAM – Bragg has been suspended indinfetely - -there you go, so could be awhile till it gets cleared up, others gonna have to step it up - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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Indefinite was really the only choice until the situation is resolved. Absolutely can’t play him with this cloud over his head currently. I’m sure once we have all the facts and the court stuff is done it will be changed from indefinite to something else.
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@Crimsonorblue22 said:
Giles was a repeat offender
Correct. Self kept Little around, so I don’t think Bragg will be kicked off the team even if guilty unless he shows a pattern of poor behavior.
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@drgnslayr If he still plays video games I guess technically he’s still a kid - ? Right ?
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Well, poke me in the eye with a stick. Who among us saw that coming? I know other teams have similar issues, but it sure seems like KU has more than their share. Keeping fingers crossed. More 4 guard platoons coming to a theater near you!
