Elle Beau ❇︎
2 min readFeb 17, 2024

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When someone acts like an out of control bully - pushing an older man and screaming in his face - then they are guilty of not having good self control when they don't get their way. You don't know that he has no history of domestic violence. You only know that it hasn't ever been reported. This sort of behavior is absolutely a huge red flag indicator of how someone is likely to behave in other areas of their life and it's highly concerning.

Maybe he's never behaved like that with a woman and maybe he never will, but when a 255 pound man who is 6'5" doesn't have good emotional maturity and self control, it's problematic. "I didn't mean to hurt her, I couldn't help myself" is the refrain of domestic abusers everywhere, to say nothing of the fact that he could have knocked his coach over. There’s absolutely nothing that Kelce did that is defensible or “no big deal.”

And FYI, innocent until proven guilty doesn't mean what you think it does. Stop using that phrase. It only applies to who has the burden of proof in a trial situation.

According to the U.S. Supreme Court, the presumption of the innocence of a criminal defendant is best described as an assumption of innocence that is indulged in the absence of contrary evidence (Taylor v. Kentucky, 436 U.S. 478, 98 S. Ct. 1930, 56 L. Ed. 2d 468 [1978]). It is not considered evidence of the defendant’s innocence, and it does not require that a mandatory inference favorable to the defendant be drawn from any facts in evidence. (emphasis mine)

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

Written by Elle Beau ❇︎

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between.

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