Britt Reid, son of NFL head coach Andy Reid, recently learned he’d be pardoned after a drunk driving crash that put a five-year-old in a coma. According to an interview held this weekend, the victim’s family is furious.
The Daily Beast reported on Saturday that the family of Ariel Young, the young victim of the crash, is disgusted by Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s decision to commute Reid’s sentence.
The Daily Beast wrote, “Tom Porto, the attorney for Ariel’s parents, said the family was ‘horrified’ by the decision.”
EXCLUSIVE: The family of the five-year-old girl who was severely injured by former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid in a drunk driving crash is “disgusted” by the governor’s decision to commute his sentence, the family’s lawyer said.https://t.co/mRfU6CL95U
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 2, 2024
“‘The family is disgusted, I am disgusted, and I believe… that the majority of the people in the state of Missouri are disgusted by the governor’s actions,'” they said. They quoted Porto saying, “IF you drink and drive and you put a little girl in a coma… you should have to serve the entire sentence that a judge of this state gave you.”
Young’s mother, according to a statement given to the publication, appeared to suggest that the “laws don’t apply equally to the haves and have notes. The haves get favors. The have notes serve their sentence.”
This decision doesn’t make much sense and definitely screams in favor of a lot of insidious biases. The family has the right to feel this way, and plenty would argue not only in favor of feeling this way, but feeling the exact same way too.
