Gabe Kapler is being criticized for not reporting an assault when he was with the Dodgers:
Kapler was the director of player development for the Dodgers at the time. The girl reportedly related that she had been drinking and dancing with two Dodgers prospects and two other women, one of whom she believed was the girlfriend of one of the players, while in the players hotel room near the Dodgers spring training complex.
The girl stated that she consumed about a half-bottle of wine and then the following occurred, according to the article: “she vomited on the bed, angering the two women, who threw her out of the room, kicking and punching her in the process. Rather than come to her aid…one of the Dodgers players videotaped the beating on his phone, and then posted the video on Snapchat.”
In her email to Kapler, the girl reportedly wrote the following:
“The boys (players) got me drunk and the girls beat me up. Your player .?.?. videotaped it all.”PhilliesNation.com
Kapler reportedly phoned the grandmother, apologized, and offered the girl help in the form of food, a place to stay, even money for a doctor.
I don’t quite see why it was up to Kapler to contact the authorities. If that was my granddaughter, I would have called the police myself, then maybe call the Dodgers. By calling Kapler, it sounds like the young woman didn’t want the police involved at the time (she did go to the police later). We’ll see where this story goes, but it seems to me that Kapler made a judgement call to try to minimize the damage to all the parties.
from baseballmusings.com http://bit.ly/2S7x39d
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