According to MLB fan house, At 2 a.m. on December 31, a 23-year-old minor league baseball player named Robbie Tolan was driving to the home he lives in with his parents after going out to eat with his cousin.
The police officer who ran Tolan's license plates apparently had no reason to do so. But he did run them, and he entered the number incorrectly, leading him to believe the car was stolen. He and his supervisor followed Robbie home and ordered him to the ground as he tried to walk in his front door. Bobby and his wife were inside the home, heard a commotion and came out. When they did, one officer grabbed Robbie's mother and pushed her against her garage door. When Robbie yelled at the officer to stop manhandling his mother, the officer shot him in the chest.
Tolan survived, but he was only recently released from the hospital, and he still has a bullet lodged in his liver and may never play baseball again. The gut-wrenching story is explored in a stunning report by Bryant Gumbel that will air Tuesday night on HBO's Real Sports.
Tolan is the son of Bobby Tolan, who played in the majors for 15 years and led the National League in stolen bases in 1970. The Tolans who are black and live in Bellaire, a white suburb of Houston, and they believe that Robbie was a victim of racial profiling the night he was shot. It's hard disagree.
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