Plaxico Burress Arriagned As Michael Bloomberg Cries “Throw The Book At Him!”

Plaxico Burress turned himself in yesterday to cops on the gun charge stemming from his self-shooting Saturday. And as more information comes out of the whole fiasco—like he used the pseudonym Harris Smith when he went to the hospital and said he got shot at an Applebees—it looks like New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has predictably gone for Burress’ head in the media. The mayor, champion of the new-ish law where anyone caught with an illegal handgun gets three and a half years minimum, told reporters that there’s no reason why he should get special treatment, like apparently what he got from the team and the hospital he was taken care of who reported none of this to the cops. They had to find out about it watching TV.

“It’s pretty hard to argue the guy didn’t have a gun and that it wasn’t loaded,” Bloomberg said, lashing out at the man who caught the winning touchdown in the 2008 Super Bowl.

“You’ve got bullet holes in and out to show that it was there… I don’t think that anybody should be exempt from that,” Bloomberg said. “It would be an outrage if we don’t prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.”

Of course Burress maintains his innocence, via his agent Drew Rosenhaus on Monday Night Football of course. Rosenhaus first said that he was happy when he found that his star was okay (from his own gunshot wound), but went and made himself even a bigger scumbag than he’s known for when he equated the self-shooting of a diva to the death last year of Sean Taylor, who died protecting his family from burglars. At this point, we’re hoping Plax does some jailtime so no one would ever make that kind of comparison again. Real life Jack McCoy better do his job.
Mayor Bloomberg fuming over Plaxico shooting: Throw the book at him [NY Daily News]
For Burress’s Agent, Concern Is Limited to His Interests [NY Times]
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