OPINION: Conor McGregor gets handled with kid gloves
Are you kidding, your honor?
Thanks to a gift from a tag team made up of a Brooklyn prosecutor and a nearsighted judge, MMA fighter Conor McGregor walked out of Brooklyn courtroom on Thursday with the lightest sentence imaginable for an act of serious violence.
The Mixed Martial Arts star pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and for an incident in which he was caught on camera throwing a handtruck through the window of a bus full of MMA fighters at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Although several people were hurt, no one was seriously injured. The incident rose out of a backstage melee after a press conference promoting an upcoming fight.
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