Prepare for Drama... MO Gov. Parsons commutes sentence for Britt Reid
 

Yikes.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">JUST IN: Britt Reid was sentenced to three years in prison after he was convicted in a DUI crash that severely injured five-year-old Ariel Young.<br><br>That sentence has been commuted.<br><br>STORY &gt;&gt;&gt; <a href="https://t.co/1LL9DNMCfS">https://t.co/1LL9DNMCfS</a> <a href="https://t.co/4MUQ26MZf4">pic.twitter.com/4MUQ26MZf4</a></p>&mdash; KCTV5 News (@KCTV5) <a href="https://twitter.com/KCTV5/status/1763688559020548308?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Eeesh. Not a great look.

:facepalm:

What the ****, man? **** him and the Governor.

Nice little Friday afternoon news dump.

Jesus. He almost killed a little girl, and definitely ruined her life.

Oof size: XXXL

Yeesh.

Can't really say I'm a fan of that one. Guy got a fairly light sentence as it was (and got DAMN lucky the girl pulled through) - doesn't seem like commuting the sentence serves the public good here.

Dislike.

Man Parsons is a dipshit

Ya gotta wonder about campaign contributions and/or what sort of lobbying took place to get that done.

I don't like this streak of bad news that has started this week.

i saw this type of shit a lot when I was locked up... Not to this degree but personally, I'm not too surprised at all.

I'm not familiar with the nuances of this process. Do they ever release a justification for these?

Generally just a list. Pardons on one list and commutations on the others.

Chiefs to Kansas pipe dream (if the ballot initiative doesn’t pass) is over.

Here's a PDF of the commutation order. The duration of his sentence isn't changed, but he's under house arrest now instead of in prison. Also lots of conditions around parole and community service. But still.

Wait what? I'll need someone to cite the average sentence of drunken drivers who almost kill children. There's no way it's less than 3 years. Especially with his previous legal issues.

Man, if the sentence was harsher than others convicted of the same crime, they probably oughta work on how they're sentencing other people.

Seems to me that getting a whopping 3 years for slamming drunk into a vehicle and damn near killing a kid oughta not elicit a 'woah, that's pretty harsh' from anyone.

When fandom goes bad..

I would say I'm surprised but when I look at the victim and then look at the offender then NO, I'm NOT surprised he's been let off early.

Oh dear Lord. WTF was he thinking.

Just bad, bad, bad.

I assume that governor isn't running for re-election? This is a really, really bad look.

File this under unexpected perks of winning 3 Superbowl's in 5 years.

I expect being under house arrest is not going to be as nice as he thinks it is. This has recidivism written all over it.

Florio will be all over this crap.

Yeah, he's in his second (final) term as governor, and that goes until 2026. By then if he runs for some other job people will probably have forgotten about this.

I don't know how Florio can continue to cover the NFL after this.

While he’s at Andy Reid’s non-existent retirement party.

No he is done this year.

Here's what I found with a little Googling:

So 3 years is on the lower end of the range but not the lowest.

https://www.combswaterkotte.com/prac...er-st-louis-mo

Get drunk and smash into a kid....3 years.
Get caught with some coke...to the GALLOWS!

Makes sense....

not surprised

was shocked he went to jail at all tbh

No, no, no. That girl's life is ****ed. This isn't right.

Part of Andy's bonus?

Andy- "You know Clark, what I'd really like is to get my son out of the clink"
Clark- "Say no more! I'll make a small contribution"!

I don’t get why he felt Britt deserved to be let off. Terrible look by the governor, especially for someone who is a repeat offender.

And realistically, 3 years for Britt Reid isn’t the same as 3 years for one of us.

He’s set for life regardless with generational wealth headed his way someday (if not immediately).

This isn’t like someone going to prison for 3 years then struggling to find employment and how to support himself in all aspects of society.

Parsons must be drinking while at work too

Ah, you're right.

Honestly, it’s a bit of a bad look for Andy.

It wreaks of the governor doing a favor for the coach’s son. I’d expect Andy to get plenty of questions about this.

Easy to say when it’s not my son obviously, but Britt really needed to serve his time.

Absolutely ridiculous the shit people from families with money get away with...

Josh Brisco is going to dine for days off this one...

{sigh}

Who?

It’s a very bad look for Andy even if he had nothing to do with it.

**** Britt. Worthless sack of crap.

They definitely tried to Friday news dump this.

While having the last year of a 3 year bit converted to house arrest is a bad look, just like him only getting 3 years was a bad look, I don't know why people are jumping to the conclusion that Andy or Clark worked some sort of a backroom deal for this. Parsons could have just done this on his own.

Yikes not a good look here.

LOL, you think he just organically considered this out of the blue, weighed the pros and cons from all angles and then said to himself..."you know this is a real travesty. It's my moral obligation to free this man"!

Yeah, that's exactly how it went down.

I wouldn't be surprised if there was some type of protection money having to be paid for Brit. Actually, I'd be surprised if there wasn't.

Missouri's governor is a moron, so this isn't really surprising at all.

He’s no longer on 810, so it will only be on Twitter and Only Weird Games.

For what it’s worth, I like Josh and he’s always seemed like a genuinely nice dude when I’ve talked to him in person.

Wait a minute. He was sentenced to 3 years, he did 2 years and is on house arrest for 1? Nobody does their full sentence anymore. A lot of people get out before they even do 2/3 of their sentence.

This has been an interesting week of Chiefs-related news.

Executive prerogative. It just means he has been “punished enough” via incarceration. This happened 2 years ago? So he shaved off 1 year of incarceration. Typically has a lot to do with appeals by the incarcerated individuals family for leniency. Didn’t the Chiefs also promise to take care of her medical needs in perpetuity?

To be pedantic, it's more like served 1.5 years and now house arrest for 1.5 years (sentenced to 3 years in November 2022). But yes, you've got the gist correct.

I'd like to meet this piece of shit at the George Brett statue after his house arrest is over.

To be clear - this isn’t a pardon rather a commuting of his sentence to “time served”

By far my favorite word to use at work.

PREDICTION: (MADD) Mothers Against Drunken Driving will be leading boycotts at Arrowhead.

Sure, but Andy is only human. Any one of us would ask for the same with his influence.

Overreaction Planet, breathe

I'm shocked the governor wasn't stupid enough to do this the week leading up to the Superbowl.

Reid should stay behind bars for a long time for what he did to that girl.

Ouch, at least he didn't do it the week of the Super Bowl.

I mean…I’m all for punishment but keeping him and others like him in prison is just taking up space and tax payer dollars. I think prison should be more about violent offenders, there are other ways to punish without prison that are more productive for society as a whole. He could be sentenced to 1000’s of hours of service etc. I just don’t think prison is the right answer. Now, jail is another thing. In CO you can only sentence up to two years in jail - probably the same in MO - but prison typically does not rehab people it makes them worse.

I generally agree with this in philosophy, as long as you have enough of a punishment for the offender to cause them to never do this behavior again. I'm not sure that public service is enough, especially for a guy who leads a comfortable life due to family wealth. I don't know what punishment you'd add, but it needs to be equal or greater to the hardship that the family now has with a disabled child. Maybe you brand "Drunk Driver" into his forehead or something.

I think the bad look is that it was commuted for a "celebrity child". Would it have been commuted if he had been small-town barber Rufus McGinnity who had done the same thing? Did the sentences get commuted of everyone who has committed the same crime and is now in prison? I doubt it.

Right, but it's a favor that most people wouldn't get.

Exactly.

100% agreed. This is a very political decision based upon the “who” the offender is related to. But I generally don’t disagree with the decision as relates to any other person situated similarly. Except maybe we should change sentencing rather than leave it up to the executive to make a “political” decision.

You assume too much.

That's exactly what I was going to post! Hahaha!

Why the ****

The ****? But didn't commute Kevin Strickland?

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You wouldn’t ask for leniency for one of your children? I’m not saying it’s right but I call bullshit if you wouldn’t.

My great great grandfather got a 3 year hitch for assault with intent to kill in 1889 in Steelville, MO. The story in the Crawford County newspapers said he was drunk when he did it and warned readers about the downside of consuming alcohol. He served 18 months and the governor commuted his sentence.

Granted, it was roughly 150 years ago but that man had no connections, money or anything. Lots of prisoners don't serve their full sentence.

Thanks for sharing.

Well, to be fair, Andy did just get a big raise and has some cash available to buy stuff...

Did you see the pictures of the victim family's car? The collision was extremely violent.

I don't know shit about breaking laws (other than speeding and dumb shit like that) but do priors not apply if they were done in other states?


Also, I'm pretty sure Andy was pushing for this, but I really ****ing hope he doesn't let him come back to work for the Chiefs in any role. Not even as a ball boy.

What if he has a prior history of being a ****up when it comes to drugs, guns, alcohol, and now near vehicular manslaughter?

Not the same thing as murder, rape, and child diddling.

Yeah at some point if you can’t prove to be a productive member of society - society has no choice but to give up and remove you from the general population. Where that line is I’m not sure and I’m not super familiar with his past history to make a judgment call.