Lest anyone has forgotten, the cause of the anthem-kneelers is the accusation that America is rampant with racist police officers killing and brutalizing black people without any reason. This is completely false, as all available data shows, but they're not interested in the truth. They're just interested in being woke. And in some cases, they're interested in being victims, which particularly helps when it turns out you're a criminal yourself.
Unlike the NFL, which is overrun with this nonsense, Major League Baseball has been afflicted thus far with only one of these creeps - Oakland Athletics catcher Bruce Maxwell. Maxwell is not a very good player and most people would never have even heard of him if not for the media's lionization of his knee-taking.
But now we have two other reasons to know Maxwell's name:
He is allegedly a dangerous gun criminal.
He's a liar who likes to slander other people by falsely accusing them of treating him badly.
First the news that developed over the weekend. This would probably explain why Maxwell doesn't like cops. People who get arrested for pulling guns on others usually don't:
The Oakland Athletics catcher allegedly pointed a gun at a female food delivery person in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Scottsdale police said officers went to Maxwell's home Saturday night after getting a call about a person with a gun. Maxwell was booked on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and disorderly conduct.
Police said Maxwell was held in custody pending an initial appearance.
TMZ Sports first reported the arrest.
Maxwell, 26, hit .237 with three home runs and 22 RBIs in 76 games this season. He was projected to be Oakland's starting catcher next year.
Last week, Maxwell claimed during a visit to his hometown of Huntsville, Ala., that he was refused service at a restaurant because of his protest. But a waiter told Fox News that Maxwell was “outright lying,” about what happened.
“I didn’t even know who Bruce Maxwell was,” waiter Matt Henry said.
By the way, if Maxwell is projected to be the Athletics' starting catcher next year, it's only because the A's have a habit of trading their good players before they have to pay them real money.
Anyway, the media is trying to emphasize that it was merely a "gun charge," as if Maxwell was only guilty of illegally possessing a gun. That makes it sound a lot more benign than it really is, since he was actually charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He didn't just possess the gun. He threatened someone with it.
The next time this guy tries to tell you how bad cops are, you might want to keep that in mind.
And the same is true about the next time he claims a server mistrated him in a restaurant. According to Maxwell, a waiter last week recognized him, identified himself as a Trump supporter and refused to serve him because of the anthem protest. Does that really sound plausible to you? A server would risk his job by refusing to serve a customer because of a political disagreement?
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Once you've heard the restaurant's side of the story, you will really only be able to come to one conclusion: Maxwell is lying:
Matt Henry, the waiter at the restaurant in Huntsville, Alabama, told Fox News that Maxwell is lying when he said a pro-Trump server refused to serve him.
"He is outright lying. This is really upsetting as he was given full service, I didn't even know who Bruce Maxwell was," Henry said. "This all started because I carded his friend who wanted to order a beer."
Henry says Maxwell was dining with local councilman Devyn Keith and a third person who had an expired ID. The waiter says he denied serving a drink to the friend, leading to the man following him into the kitchen and asking if he knew who Maxwell was.
"I didn't know anything about him or the kneeling. All I know is a friend of mine 15 years ago lost his job for serving someone a drink who happened to be underage, so if anyone looks under 30, I'm going to card them," Henry said.
The waiter said he was switched to another table after the councilman told the manager Maxwell was uncomfortable.
This sounds a lot more like Maxwell and the other two men came into the restaurant with chips on their shoulders, and took the issue over the ID as the excuse they were seeking to get offended and to claim they had been mistreated. Once you're following your server into the kitchen, you're the problem, not the server.
You might notice a pattern forming of the anthem-protesters having victim complexes. Colin Kaepernick is accusing NFL owners of colluding against him. Michael Bennett of the Seattle Seahawks accused Las Vegas police of detaining him simply because he is black. That, subsequent video proved, was a total lie. And now we have Bruce Maxwell wanting people to believe he was mistreated by a Trump-supporting waiter, only to have us learn he basically made the whole thing up.
This pattern matters a lot, because these people are accusing police officers of a particularly nasty type of systemic abuse. How do we determine if this accusation is accurate? One way is to examine the available evidence, which as we've already indicated does not look good for the accusers. But another way is to examine whether the accusers themselves have a habit of demonstrating a persecution complex.
Bruce Maxwell certainly seems to have that tendency, especially when it comes to people who are trying to serve him food. The waiter in the restaurant, he falsely accuses of refusing to serve him for political reasons. The delivery woman, he pulls a gun on. And police officers, he accuses of being racist brutes.
It sure sounds to me like Maxwell himself is the malcontent. Baseball is my number one sport, so I'm glad there is only one of these guys in the game. And maybe after this, there will be none.
Lest anyone has forgotten, the cause of the anthem-kneelers is the accusation that America is rampant with racist police officers killing and brutalizing black people without any reason. This is completely false, as all available data shows, but they're not interested in the truth. They're just interested in being woke. And in some cases, they're interested in being victims, which particularly helps when it turns out you're a criminal yourself.
Unlike the NFL, which is overrun with this nonsense, Major League Baseball has been afflicted thus far with only one of these creeps - Oakland Athletics catcher Bruce Maxwell. Maxwell is not a very good player and most people would never have even heard of him if not for the media's lionization of his knee-taking.
