Lawrence Phillips’ ex-girlfriend Kate McEwen was an athlete at Nebraska. She was initially given an athletic scholarship for basketball, but it was later taken away because she did not play up to the school’s standards. She played a very small part in Lawrence’s life during his tenure at Nebraska. According to accounts, Kate was sleeping with Nebraska’s backup quarterback. Lawrence was told about this by a teammate, and he immediately ran to the quarterback’s apartment, climbed the building to the third floor, and entered through some sliding doors. He then dragged the girl out of the apartment by the hair and smashed her head into a mailbox. This all happened in the 1990’s. It made national headlines and started his spiral into ruin.
Mr. Phillips was found dead in his prison cell today, January 16, 2016. He was in prison for several different charges. A few of the charges were for assaulting another girlfriend. Lawrence Phillips’ ex-girlfriend Amaliya Weisler said he’d beaten her up and choked her, causing her to lose consciousness. Lawrence was also accused of running over several young men with his car. He was most recently suspected of murdering his cellmate in prison and had been separated from the rest of the inmates.
Lawrence Phillips’ ex-girlfriends’ abuses and other crimes make him sound like a monster, but they also seem like the result of a social system that discarded him. He grew up in various foster care and group home environments. He never had a father, and he was separated from his mother at age 11 after being abused. A friend from the group home he grew up in gave an account of Lawrence teaching him how to read. He never belittled his friend’s illiteracy. Though prone to fits of extreme violence and anger, Lawrence’s friends also talked about him being a caring and sweet individual. I read all of the letters he wrote to his former high school football coach and vice-principal, and they are very sad indeed. They essentially showed a man trying to stay away from trouble but being surrounded by it all the time.
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Cry me a goddamn river. I don’t care what you’ve been through, eventually you’re an adult and should damn well know not to beat the shit out of your girlfriend or run over multiple people. I got problems too, but I take my fucking meds and don’t commit felony assault.
A pos and osborne was a pos.
The author of this article is an idiot ; that is the problem with our society today , everyone believes it is someone else’s fault for their own actions. What a joke! Terrible article ; a lot of people grow up in foster care and are not lowdown, sorry thugs.
he ran over a kid. miracle he didn’t kill the kid or the other kids.
Kate Mcewen is a pos for toying with his emotions. Hope she lives with that daily.
Gd, you are a fucking idiot.
So, I watched a documentary last night about this guy and I found it very sad. This poor wretch was clearly alcoholic and it is so sad to me that no one ever suggested treatment for his alcoholism. It’s amazing that when that is addressed, most other things, like his pesky temper, clear up too. For the love of God, AA is free! These clowns who write these articles about poor, black, group home-make me sick. I grew up not wealthy in a violent alcoholic family and I have the SAME kind of temper as Philips… I am a white woman. I understand this poor bastard because I got it too. Thank God for AA! 17 years after finally accepting my disease and all its consequences I am sober, employed, have two gorgeous little boys and a loving husband. I am most days, happy joyous and free…only because of THOSE meetings and THOSE people. If you know one of these poor souls, get them to an AA meeting. I don’t know why they work, they just do!!
Mr/Mrs Anonymous, you’re a joke. Do you really believe his friends and coaches didn’t try to get him to rehab? You can’t help those that don’t want to be helped. A person has to believe in every part of their soul that they want change and a better life. However, if this man had a traumatic brain injury, even before football, when he was a child, they cannot help their behavior. The behavior he showed was consistent with a brain injury. I know first hand. My son was exactly like that. Their brain injury leaves them with no forethought on handling certain situations like we have. They have no control and need to be medicated, and again, they have to want help and “they” have to want to take their meds, but I’ll bet money nobody addressed a possible brain injury. Such a sad story all the way around.
Sadly, this man was a tragedy. However, the lack of empathy that all seem to have is equa Lily saddening. Empathy for ALL, the women and Phillips.
Soooo sad that this article says she played a small part in his life. Look what this relationship did to both of them……. ESP Kate……Who is being dismissed. THIS EVENT IS LIFE ALTERING!!!!!!!