Falsehoods, it’s typically stated, can travel the world priorto the reality can get its shoes on. There are times when a absence of context can make fools of us all, and that occurs noplace more than on social media. Snippets of audio and video with a caption, provided as a total story, so typically inform just a little piece of the fact.
Then there are other times when more context isn’t required. That’s where we are with Alabama large receiver Jermaine Burton.
He reached out and made contact with Tennessee fan Emily Isaacs with his right arm on his method out of Neyland Stadium after the Crimson Tide’s 52-49 loss, and that can’t be excused.
Isaacs published the clip to TikTok, captioning it “Jermaine Burton smacking me in the head,” and lateron verified to a media outlet that it was her in the video.
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She was amongst thousands of UT fans to storm the field in the after-effects of the Volunteers’ thrilling upset. It’s difficult to make out much else from a far-away, low-grade video shot from the bleachers. But any missingouton context is just pertinent to how seriously Burton must be dealt with. What we understand is enough to develop that he should be held to account.
We understand Burton didn’t reach out for some other factor and struck Isaacs by mishap since if he had, Alabama coach Nick Saban wouldn’t haveactually explained it as a disciplinary concern.
We understand it was no incidental bump in a tight crowd duetothefactthat if the video is clear on anything, it’s that Isaacs stepped to her left to prevent Burton, and he reached to his right to make contact.
There’s no audio, however there’s absolutelynothing Isaacs might have stated to areworthyof it.
Was he trying to knock a phone from her hand, as he appeared to do in anothe