Jamin Davis was not at Commanders camp on Monday, as he was in a Loudoun County courtroom appealing a reckless driving charge from March 2022.
Davis was cited going 114 MPH in a 45 MPH zone early one March afternoon, a Class 1 misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine. He will be back in court Thursday after a reported plea deal of eight days jail time was rejected as a compromise for what was 30 days and a suspended license, so the process will continue.
“I’d be interested to know what they’re appealing and why, even though he reserves that right,” Doc Walker said Monday. “After what happened to Henry Ruggs in Vegas, you just cut your brain off. If you don’t learn from it…he’s an intelligent guy, and I’m devastated by it, because he has a military background and he’s a beast. Have I ever gone beyond the speed limit? Yes, but it wasn’t the smartest thing.”
Doc told a story about how he once was a passenger in a Porsche driven by Vernon Dean doing even faster speeds, and ‘almost tore the handles off the side of his car.’
“I thought, ‘this is way too fast for me to be going in a small car,’ and I said that was it for me,” Doc said. “I thought that if Vernon ever took his foot off that thing, I’m done, and that’s it. (Davis) is stupid, he’s young, he’s got some coin, he’s in a high-performance vehicle…he’s in a spaceship, and that goes.”
It was pointed out on social media, and reinforced by Lynnell Willingham, that Davis was behind Deshazor Everett and at the scene the night in December 2021 Everett lost control of his car and was involved in an accident that killed his girlfriend – so this charge is somewhat more egregious.
“Anything who does something reckless like that during football season, I want to punch them in the face,” Doc said. “He did it in the offseason, different behavior, but still bad.”
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“Just considering the circumstances around the team at the time of his citation, Davis was a part of that and had to miss a game,” Lynnell said. “I’m coming from the standpoint of disappointment. We haven’t even talked about the ramifications on the field.”
“He couldn’t start for me now,” Doc replied. “The boy from Seattle is a beast, but even if he was the better player, he couldn’t start for me. If I don’t teach him a lesson he obviously hasn’t learned, then I don’t love him. In this game, they’ll use you, because they need you for the game, but after the game, he’s still a knucklehead.”
Lynnell and Doc hoped someone could instill some ‘much needed advice’ into him, and even though everyone makes bad decisions, Lynnell’s line was endangering others.
“It’s one thing to put yourself in danger, it’s another thing to do it to others,” Lynnell said, before Doc invoked the Everett situation again.
“When somebody kills somebody you love, and they weren’t racing with a pregnant woman to the hospital to get her into maternity, there’s no excuse.”
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