The Tallahassee Democrat reported Florida State quarterback and 2016 ACC Rookie of the Year Deondre Francois was investigated in a domestic violence incident.
Florida State quarterback Deondre Francois is being investigated for a domestic violence incident that is alleged to have occurred early Wednesday morning.
Multiple sources have confirmed that Tallahassee Police responded to an apartment complex in reference to a domestic battery involving Francois at about 12:35 a.m. Additionally, police call notes show officers responded to a domestic incident at the same time.
No arrests have been made.
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Ouch... That could be bad for FSU and the new coach.
Sad for the girl if shit really went down, but given the track record of the Tally PD, I don't see much coming out of this.
Just following the tried and true FSU playbook
Step 1: Domestic allegations come out against QB
Step 2: Local cops perform a sham of an investigation
Step 3: Police holds a pep rally of a press conference to drop all charges
Step 4: Win Heisman
Step 5: Win National Championship
Step 6: Get NFL payday
Step 7: Settle all civil lawsuits over domestic allegations out of court to keep accusers quiet.
Step 8: Grope Uber driver
Step 8: Grope Uber DriverStep 8: Steal crab legs
Step 9: Grope Uber Driver
Don't forget to yell "F$$$er right in the p*$$y" in the cafeteria while under investigation
And don't forget having your WRs steal shoes right before the National Championship
Yep. Tallahassee police will cover this up for him.
I just came here to say #Justice4Turntle.
I did some googling for this hashtag... pretty disturbing.
If you TKPed harder you wouldn't need the google search.
#TheHuntingGround
Jamies Winston
DeAndre Johnson
Deondre Francois
any others?
Dalvin Cook
john franklin the III.
And with the ___th pick in the 2019 NFL Draft, the Cincinnati Bengals select:
Francois takes the snap, fakes to Mixon, shallow pass to Enunwa. Tackled by Tremaine Brock. AND THE BALL COMES OUT. Hageman has it!
Gonna be a big loss for them in the spring game.
Looks like the girl involved might not be that stable. This looks like a he-said-she-said thing. No way to know how this will go.
UPDATE
Nice to see the FSU mafia is already going straight toward victim shaming. Straight out of the Jameis playbook.
The fact that he's the one who called the police lends a bit of credence to his side of the story. Nobody (not even an FSU QB) is dumb enough to call the cops and report himself for beating on his girlfriend.
...but the fact that he's a guy in college, and apparently has (had) a vase in his apt, makes me highly suspicious of anything he's done.
RIP Deondre's vase
Why would anyone destroy such a beautiful accent piece? Really brings the room together
Not that it happens often, but I don't know how to talk about rugs/furniture without using this line
I'm no expert, but I am not sure that is really a "vase." Or maybe that's what y'all are getting at and I am just slow.
Once it's been shattered against a wall by your pregnant ex girlfriend and the cops are there, it's definitely a vase
Can't help but think of this movie
Such a funny movie!!
Deondre's ex-gf, probably.
I'm assuming that's what you call your bong when talking to the po-po.
Probably get suspended for the first series against us on Labor Day, this is the TPD we are talking about
FSU has announced that Francois is suspended for the opening kickoff of the Labor Day game against the Hokies....
This is a big blow to the Seminoles chances.....
If true, I am not sure it really is that much of a hit. QB controversy is now over. Their backup QB didn't do bad to finish the season.
...QBs don't play on kickoff team.
You're a nitwit
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Kinda OT, but either way how this shapes up, you are going to see some attrition soon at the QB position at FSU with either Blackmon or Francois leaving in any fashion.
Nobody would want Blackmon lol
one man's trash is another man treasure
In that case I hope UVA takes him
Attrition that will just yield the next 4 or 5-star FSU QB.
very true
Yada yada yada we'll see him in six to eight months
UPDATE: Details
To be quite honest, if his account of the events is true, then it makes sense for him to have been the one to call the police. It certainly does not exonerate him, but it does make the story make a little more sense, especially with him being the one who made the call.
That said, it's pretty clear most of y'all have already judge, jury, and executioner'd this one.
Yeah it seems like he might actually be in the right to call the police but those are two VERY different stories by both of them. I don't think any of it will be enough to file any charges either way though, maybe for the girl.
Until Turntle finds justice all Seminoles will be judged.
meh could be worse...if it was the VT Honor Court, he'd be expelled by now.
The Honor Court is separate from the Student Conduct Committee, which is the one that's a problem. Let's be sure we're shitting on the right organization.
I'm disappointed in myself for not posting this earlier.
The investigation will rap up the Tuesday after our game and he will be suspended for week 2
The girl stated to the police that she didn't want to get him in "trouble trouble" but she wanted the police to "scare him a little."
I know everybody in this thread has wrapped up the case already and is positive Francois and the TPD will do anything to cover it up for him, but it sounds like the girl was a little crazy. Pretty harsh of everybody to attack a 20 year old like this.
I'd say we're attacking the idea of the teflon FSU athlete more than Francois in particular.
All I said was potential trouble for FSU. I am not sure anybody is convicting him of anything especially without an investigation.
EDIT: Removed the last sentence. I just see too many headlines where people are having to defend themselves. Somebody I know was accused falsely and it strikes too close.
Leg for all the apparently accidental downvotes.
Or we could not ignore where HokieAlum6144 apparently found it kosher to say
#metoo
Alaskan, stone, or blue?
I've been falsely accused before, but I'm not going to take potshots at a movement where the damage and trauma are all too real.
One of my thoughts on that comment is that she doesn't want to completely ruin her chance at getting a piece of his possible future NFL contract. She might be crazy and that's her back tracking. But I could also easily see her not wanting to completely destroy his career if she could have a future with him. Athletes don't always treat their spouses the best but they tolerate it because of the lifestyle they get to live.
I liked her use of "trouble trouble."
Mercy... I know crazy ex-girlfriend. This sounds like textbook crazy girlfriend. If anybody needs advice, I can do crazy ex-girlfriend, crazy cat lady, militant animal shelter volunteer, and psycho parking lot attendant... among others.
He did the right thing by calling the cops. Rule number one when dealing with crazy ex-girlfriend - You want as many people as possible to witness the crazy at it's peak.
Maybe it's not fair to call a girl crazy when we don't know what precipitated the events either.
I don't know - I don't think you can solve too many problems by throwing shit around and breaking it.
That's not my point. It's the extension of the idea that if a woman acts a certain way, she must be "crazy." If Francois broke a vase or punched a hole in the wall or whatever, people would say he was angry rather than calling his mental state into question.
with all due respect, the only one who is turning this into a double standard is you. Punching a hole due to anger is crazy. Breaking a vase b/c you're upset is crazy. Both somewhat unnerve me and I have no issues calling those actions crazy, regardless of gender.
It could be that I'm the first and only person to ever see a double standard here, but let's do a little research just to prove how wrong I am. Undoubtedly someone like yourself, who has no issue calling actions crazy regardless of gender, will have used that term toward a male at some point! So I looked back through many of the threads for Tavante Beckett, CJ Reavis, Shai McKenzie, Michael Holmes, and Jameis Winston. Lots of controversial and erratic actions should be covered in those threads, right? Guess how many times any of those players are referred to as "crazy"? If you guessed 0, you nailed it!
Yet somehow, even though we don't know the full details of the cases, there were 4 comments about women being "crazy."
Because, you know, players can't be responsible for making bad decisions- it's probably a result of sticking their dingers in crazy and temporarily contracting the impaired mental capacity. Honestly I'm not claiming anyone has malicious intent as it's a pervasive, generally accepted stereotype, but I am suggesting to take an extra second to think about what should be said instead of defaulting to "the girl is crazy" in these situations.
Its possible to differentiate between "Crazy actions" and just being "crazy".
Sane people do crazy things all the time....actions can be crazy...without the person being crazy.
Either way, its a bad situation.
Lets not argue over an FSU QB and his issues.
Go Hokies.
I do think you're on to something in terms of the negative labels we assign to different genders (anyone ever heard of an asshole ex-girlfriend or a crazy ex-boyfriend?) but when you look at all those cases individually there isn't a reason to label any one of them as "crazy". And people said plenty of negative things about them, just not "crazy".
Often times we don't actually even know what they did to get in trouble (Beckett, Reavis), so how are we even going to label their actions? McKenzie I remember people calling him dumb and immature (I think most thought he got tricked otherwise he would have been a "predator"). Michael Holmes... that was a straight up violent incident, not necessarily crazy, just messed up. Winston, people called him everything under the sun, but I don't think "crazy" applies to anything he did either.
All I'm saying here is people didn't call those cases crazy, they called them other very negative things that might have applied better.
Actually, shakeitallabout has a really good point. The "crazy" label is applied to women much earlier on the scale than it would be to a man who'd done the same thing. You might personally call both of those actions crazy, but a majority of people would not.
The internet is getting awfully sensitive when we can't sit behind our screens and call someone "crazy" without offending others.
Or.... and I'm just spitballing here... we could not simultaneously perpetuate sexist stereotypes and make light of mental illness?
I agree we shouldn't perpetuate sexist stereotypes and nobody should make light of legitimate mental illness, but you're not insulting every person who suffers from mental illness when you describe an action, accurately by definition, as crazy.
This!!!! Thanks for saying it EP ^
They live together so cohabition and she went to the hospital for an exam. If she had a single bruise and the officer didn't effect an arrest im not sure what "shall" arrest laws Florida has on the books then. In Virginia he would have been arrested.
Would he? He called the Police not her and he had a witness according to the one article.
Doesn't matter who calls. It's primary aggressor who gets arrested. They both have bruises that can't be explained with self defense and my agency would have them both locked up and the magistrate and judge could work it out.
This is exactly what I was thinking. Every episode of Cops (I know... I know... this is why I waited to mention it until someone with actual experience said it) I've ever seen with this type of situation, they just arrest both and tell them to argue with the judge. In my humble opinion it seems the young man got caught up with the wrong girl, but TPD not bothering to arrest anyone when there are signs of physical altercation seems like another example of why that police department sucks.
I'm missing where the article stated they were living together. I thought it stated that she came into his home.
It's in the police report.
Sure is.
God bless those poor magistrates...
Ah, the oldest and noblest of FSU traditions.
FSU: Females' Safety Unimportant
That guy obviously stole that flat brim hat. Still hasn't taken the sticker off.
Man I know that is old but it's so disturbing. Plus the fact that no one seemed to do anything in the immediate aftermath???
What happened to never hit a woman?? (unless she is threatening serious bodily harm of course)
Unreal. Yadda yadda yadda....kids these days.....something something society
How about just don't fucking hit people and if you do don't be surprised if you get hit back?
While I agree with this statement, there's a pretty clear line where you can use some restraint. Hitting a chick that clearly isn't going to be a threat, regardless if she threw a half assed punch or not probably isn't necessary.
This is a pretty bad take.
#1 He wouldn't let go of her shoulder and she was trying to defend herself. Her taking a swing in self defense doesn't justify him taking a swing at her no matter what your logic.
#2 You don't drop a nuke in retaliation when someone fires a rifle.
On one hand, I agree his hit was excessive. On the other, woman or man, if you start swinging at someone, you have to expect them to swing back. You can't go to the "how dare you hit a woman" argument if you're swinging first.
Once again, you don't need Tyson to throw his left hook if he's fighting a middling bantamweight.
I'd seen this before but hadn't noticed #1 until you pointed it out.
Abandon Thread!