The relationship between the Lions and Calvin Johnson has been frosty ever since Johnson retired and the Lions required him to pay back part of his signing bonus — something they were contractually permitted to do because he walked away before his contract was up, but something that many teams have chosen not to do when great players decide it's time to hang up the cleats.
But that frosty relationship seems to be thawing.
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Johnson said this morning, after learning yesterday that he's been elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, that he and Lions owner Sheila Ford Hamp have been in regular contact and that he can see himself re-joining the Lions family.
Detroit Lions owner Sheila Ford Hamp reached out to Calvin Johnson in mid-January and the two have had what Johnson called 'good' dialogue recently. While the Ford Family has owned the Lions. Calvin Klein Inc. Co-founder Barry K. Schwartz and his wife, Sheryl, have listed their roughly 740-acre spread in Westchester County for that nine-figure sum. The Wall Street Journal first reported. Calvin Griffith, who in his three decades as owner of the Washington Senators and their successor, the Minnesota Twins, personified a lost age when baseball teams were run as tight-spending family.
'Myself and Sheila Ford Hamp have had great conversations,' Johnson said. 'We're moving in the right direction.'
An easy way for the Lions and Johnson to get on the same page would be for the Lions to pay him to be an ambassador for the team. Johnson could make back the money the Lions charged him by making appearances for the Lions, and Megatron and the Lions could both end up happy.
Updated: 7:40 p.m.
The family of a man shot to death during civil unrest in south Minneapolis in May is demanding investigators release information about the shooting and that prosecutors charge the shooter.
Saying they want justice, family members of Calvin Horton Jr. held a news conference the same day that Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said prosecutors need to know what happened in the minutes surrounding the fatal shooting of Horton on the evening of May 27. The shooting happened two days after George Floyd, a handcuffed Black man, died after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee against Floyd's neck for several minutes.
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'We seem to be reminded over and over again that there are two types of justice in America, one for black America and one for white America,' said attorney Ben Crump, who represents Horton's family.
Horton was shot in the torso in or near Cadillac Pawn while protests over Floyd's death began to turn violent and looters broke into businesses.
The pawn shop owner was arrested the night of the shooting, was held in the Hennepin County Jail for several days and released pending further investigation. The Hennepin County Attorney's office has urged any witnesses to Horton's killing to come forward.
The family and supporters of Horton on Tuesday rallied outside Cadillac Pawn, demanding charges against the pawn shop owner.
Crump said Horton's family has gotten 'no answers' from government officials about his death, despite dozens of calls. Horton, who would have turned 44 on Tuesday, left behind his mother and seven children, including 8-year-old twin sons.
'His life matters to all of his children, each and every one of them, his entire family. So we're here to declare that Calvin Horton's life matters,' Crump said, before leading people in a chant of 'Calvin Horton's life matters.'
'We're absolutely heartbroken,' Horton's daughter, Cadaezhah Horton, 20, said. 'And we're left to feel as if we're the ones in prison. We want justice for my dad, and we aren't going to stop until we see it.'
'The only thing I want is justice,' said Horton's mother, Mae Roberts. 'Nothing is being done for my son.'
Freeman said that so far authorities have only one witness who saw part of the encounter and have not found any surveillance camera video showing what happened.
'We need the help of anyone who was in or around Cadillac Pawn at the time of the shooting,' Freeman said. 'We need to know what happened several minutes before the shooting and then the shooting itself.'
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The scene was chaotic that night, with many people in and around the pawn shop, Freeman said. Some of those people pelted police officers as they tried to render first aid to Horton and attacked them with objects as they tried to investigate the crime scene, he added. The officers retreated and investigators were unable to safely return until the next day.
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