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Message: [QUOTE="businesslawyer, post: 3433495, member: 55"] No, it's not all you need to know. He thought he was helping his players when he assaulted an in uniform Puerto Rican policeman in San Juan during the Pan Am games. But for the fact that powerful white men didn't go to jail for assaulting Puerto Ricans in those days -- even Puerto Rican police officers -- he should have done time. Tell me that John Thompson assaulting a white police officer in Pittsburgh would have gotten off with defying local officials and you'd be a liar. I wish him nothing but peace in his diminished state, and he was an outstanding basketball coach (I saw him coaching Army with Mike K in the NIT in the 60s) -- not on Calhoun's level by the way -- but don't tell me he was a good person. Good people don't assault police officers because they want more court time. [/QUOTE]