Antionette Brown is a worried mother and desperately worried about her son.
Her son Wendell Brown is a former college athlete and Canadian Football league player
and he has been incarcerated in a Chinese jail for more than a year.
Mrs. Brown is pleading with President Donald Trump to help her son secure his release and
to come home after the release of three UCLA basketball players – Cody Riley, LiAngelo
Ball, and Jalen Hill – who were caught shoplifting sunglasses in Hangzhou.
Unlike Lavar Ball, father of LiAngelo, and his ungrateful and ridiculous tirade against
President Trump, Mrs. Brown has repeatedly stated she would be willing to give him full
credit and thank him over and over if only he would help bring her son home.
Antoinette Brown stated to Yahoo!
Sports –
"I'll thank him.
If Trump helps us, if he helps Wendell, I won't stop thanking him.
He helped get three basketball players who were guilty get out.
I pray he'll help get my innocent son out.
And if he does, I'll thank him and thank him and thank him."
Brown was a high school football star from Detroit that went on to play football for
Ball State in Muncie, Indiana.
After college Brown played professionally in the Canadian Football League, as well as
in an American arena league.
He then moved to Chongqing, China in 2015 coaching a team in the American Football League
of China, as well as teaching English.
He also opened and ran a cross-training business to supplement his income.
All was going well until September 24, 2016, when he chose to attend the birthday party
at a Chinese bar.
According to Brown's testimony, many of the locals thought he was wealthy since he
was American, black, and had a larger frame.
A group of Chinese men insisted on having a drink with Brown but he declined the invitation.
His choice to decline that invitation has led him down a dark and lonely path, as it
angered the locals and a fight broke out with bottles being hurled.
Chinese police arrested Brown claiming he hit a man, causing him to lose an eye.
Brown states he was merely defending himself from bottles being hurled in his direction.
Brown was unable to contact his family for days.
Eventually, a friend of Brown's was able to contact his family back in Detroit and
explain what happened.
His family then hired an attorney in China to help Brown make his case.
The family was then told in order to win their son's release they would need $100,000 as
restitution.
Mrs. Brown has been married for 17 years to her husband Travon King, working as a hairstylist
while King is a barber.
$100,000 might as well have been the moon to them as it was that insurmountable.
As a result, for the past 14 months, Brown has been jailed at the Chongqing Jiangbei
detention center.
Should Brown be convicted of his crime, he could spend roughly three to ten years in
prison.
Surveillance video from the bar made available during the trial proceedings corroborated
Brown's story – that he was simply defending himself and did not throw a bottle at anyone.
Brown's testimony was found to be credible when he testified on his own behalf in July.
It was also revealed that the eye damage done to the man was actually done in a previous
altercation.
Yet no verdict has been announced or even an estimated time one should be expected.
Brown's family is attempting to contact everyone they can possibly think of that could
possibly help free him, including US diplomatic officials in China as well as with Michigan's
two senators, Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters and now with President Trump.
Once a month, an official from the US Consulate visits Brown in the Chinese jail to make sure
he is not mistreated.
Yet his family is naturally worried and his mother writes of sleepless nights.
Mrs. Brown states –
"So many sleepless nights.
It never makes sense.
I stay up all night emailing people in China because their time is 12 hours ahead, so it's
daytime.
You can never get an answer."
Brown is trying to be positive for his family writing of passing the time in jail by doing
meditation, exercise, and Bible study attempting to assure his mother that the truth will come
out.
So far, they have been unsuccessful in exerting influence on the Chinese legal system.
The Chinese legal system does not have the same due process rights granted to the accused
as exist in America.
By contrast, LaVar Ball responded with "Who?" when asked by ESPN's Arash Markazi about
President Trump's assistance in freeing his son, going on to state –
"What was he over there on the Asian trip for?
Don't tell me nothing.
Everybody wants to make it seem like he helped me out."
It seems attitude is everything and as a result, some are more deserving than others of presidential
assistance – nevermind it seems that Brown is innocent of the crime he is accused of,
whereas Ball was not.
Hopefully, President Trump will again lend a hand and this time find a much more grateful
family and Brown will be able to be with his family once again.
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