WASHINGTON, D.C. — APRIL 17, 2017 — This morning on NewsOne Now, host and managing editor Roland Martin spoke with president of the Association of Black Psychologists Dr. Jeff Menzies about the ongoing manhunt of Steve Stephens, who murdered a 74-year-old man yesterday in Cleveland. Steven live-streamed the murder on Facebook, and stated that the man’s murder was the beginning of his embarking on a mass civil killing spree, motivated by his reaction to a romantic breakup. He has not yet been caught, and claims to have killed up to 15 people.
“It’s not so uncommon for people to live so close to the edge psychologically. Often times they give us warning signs. They may be subtle to some, but those of us who know what we’re looking at, we see it bright as day. This guy, he probably reached out to several people and is seen as high strung or maybe having a certain level of anxiety, but nobody could predict what he did yesterday,” said Menzies. “The human mind is very fragile. It’s so easy to influence it. When you have such a public platform as Facebook and all these other social media outlets, you have people who get on stage and they want to do their last hurrah. They want to go out with a bang. Without the proper assessment you can’t determine what was going on within this man. We have to try to promote mental health in the black community especially because it’s still a stigma. People still have a stigma to come in and say ‘Hey man, I’m stressed, I have problems, I’m thinking about hurting people, how can I get over this?’”
Steve Stephens Broadcasts A Random Murder On Facebook Live,
Says He 'Snapped'
(courtesy credits: TV One/NewsOne Now)
Martin also spoke with fellow major league baseball legend, businessman, and current senior vice president of the Atlanta Braves Hank Aaron on how black players added the excitement that major league baseball needed, and achieving his success before the dawn of supersized contracts and salaries in modern day sports.
“When I first started playing baseball, I started with $5,000 a year as a salary. And playing in the Negro League I made $200 a month. But I didn’t let that stop me from doing what I had to do. I realized that things were going to get better. And I realized that if I keep my head about water and do what I was supposed to do, that I was going to make as much money as I wanted to make and share it with as many people as I wanted to share it with. And that was the most important thing” said Aaron, who played for 23 seasons with the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves, and with the Indianapolis Clowns in the Negro Leagues.
“I remember in Baltimore, I had a friend of mine and we went out to dinner one night. He was a sports writer and I told him, ‘The balls that I hit now, that I used to hit over the fence, they don’t get any further than the warning tracks. I slide to second base, and I get halfway and that’s it.’ The good Lord has shown me that he’s given me the opportunity to play this game for 23 years, and do everything humanly possible that I can do. Now it’s time for me to show my blessing and my appreciation and give it to other people and let them go with it.”
Baseball Legend Hank Aaron On The State Of The Game and
Paving The Way For Today's Athletes
(courtesy credit: TV One/NewsOne Now)
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