Tallahassee police let Florida State football players off easy after hit-and-run accident #RESM560V

Tallahassee police are showing favoritism yet again to Florida State football players when they only issued a citation to two players— starting cornerbacks P.J.Williams and Ronald Darby— who were involved in hit-and-run accident in October.

According to the Times, Williams, driving with a suspended license, hit a car off-campus at 2:37 a.m. on Oct. 5 — just hours after the Seminoles had beaten Wake Forest 43–3. Both cars were totaled. The paper reported that Williams abandoned the wrecked car and fled, along with Darby and another unidentified passenger, before returning to the scene “approximately” 20 minutes later.

When the officers arrived at the scene, they never tested Williams, the MVP of last season’s BCS title game, for alcohol and he was never questioned if he had been drinking.

In my opinion, this shows favoritism from the Tallahassee police. The first thing an officer typically asks someone when they’re pulled over late at night is if they've been drinking.

The two players fled the scene of an accident, which is a criminal act, and showed up 20 minutes later suffering no consequences.

What were Williams and Darby doing those 20 minutes? Did they call anyone? I think their phone records need to be looked into because they could have called someone who then contacted the police asking what the two should do.

Two ranking officers from the Florida State University police department, who lacked jurisdiction, arrived on the scene but failed to report the incident to the school. Florida State told the Times that the officers’ role was too minor to require a report or even to enter in their online police log.

How could a hit-and-run accident involving two football players, one who was driving on a suspended license and crashed and totaled two cars, be too minor to report?

I believe this incident would have been treated differently if the two weren't football players for Florida State. They would have been questioned properly and charged differently.

This is yet another incident involving the Tallahassee police department showing favoritism to Florida State athletes by letting them off too easy.

Tallahassee police chief Michael DeLeo told the Times that “no one should be shown any favoritism” and that an investigation would be forthcoming.