Twin brother of Bears running back Tarik Cohen found electrocuted after running from car crash, police say



The twin brother of a Chicago Bears running back was found dead by electrocution and authorities said that he was fleeing from the scene of a car accident before his death.

Tarik Cohen, 25, of the Chicago Bears had tweeted asking for the public's help in finding his missing brother, Tyrell Cohen, on Saturday.

"Could be on foot in the [woods] around 540 and six forks," Tarik said in the tweet he later deleted. "Possibly injured!"

A day later his brother's body was discovered by a worker at an electrical substation in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Law enforcement officials said that it appeared that he was trying to climb electrical equipment when he was electrocuted. He had run away from the one-car accident around 2 a.m. Saturday and into the substation.

The Chicago Bears issued a statement about the incident Monday.

"We are heartbroken to learn of the death of Tarik Cohen's twin brother, Tyrell," the statement read. "Our immediate thoughts and prayers go out to Tarik, his mother, Tilwanda, and the rest of their family and loved ones. On behalf of the entire Bears family, we extend our most heartfelt sympathies to all who mourn his loss."

On Monday, Tarik Cohen posted a statement via his Twitter account to fans about the death of his brother.

"While we appreciate the condolences thoughts and prayers, we ask that you respect our privacy during this time. Let us grieve. Please and thanks. Long live Me," he tweeted.

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"I lost my brother , my twin, myself . What a great man he was . I'm glad i got to express just how much i love him while he was here," he added in a second tweet. "God truly calls home the best and most worthy. I'll just miss him forever."

Tyrell Cohen leaves behind a longtime girlfriend and two daughters, 3 and 7 years old.

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Former NFL player says bringing God into schools is the only way to solve racism, economic division



Former NFL player Jack Brewer says that God needs to get back in the classroom in order to solve racial and economic divisions in the United States.

What are the details?

In an interview with the Daily Wire, Brewer — an outspoken conservative and founder of the Jack Brewer Foundation — said that educating children early will help prevent the spread of racism and more.

"Back in 2016, when [Colin] Kaepernick started kneeling, I said, 'There is something we gotta do to bring law enforcement and community and sports to be that vehicle,'" he said. "And so we started that program and partnered with a number of police athletic leagues around the country to kind of bridge that gap. And I served for a couple years as the spokesperson for the police athletic league."

He continued, "[A]s that grew and things didn't necessarily get better around us with these relations, I just wanted to do more. I started to do a lot of teaching and we started programs in partnership with the Fordham Gabelli School of Business, now with Liberty University. I started teaching professional athletes and I started teaching in the prisons, and I just noticed that one thing was keeping us divided was that access to education."

He added that inner-city children need access to better education in order to pull them from the depths of poverty and rise above.

“Not just sports, not just the community building, and to actually start doing something about this crazy educational gap that we have that's leaving these inner-city kids reading and math proficiency levels lower than Third World countries," Brewer explained.

Brewer added that beginning this month, his foundation will offer the "Serving Institute," which, according to the outlet, "will offer a faith-based education to kids," which is naturally lacking in public schools.

“As of this year, [I'm] proud to announce we're going to be opening up our first 'Serving Institute,' which will offer a private school faith-based curriculum, that we partner with Liberty university on — and also our sports programs and our value building programs, our etiquette programs, our grammar programs — to really try to give the kids access to the education that unfortunately, most public schools are just not delivering," he said. "And we also have intervention training. So we're doing assessments on all our kids and doing extra work throughout the summer to help them get their reading and math proficiency levels up."

Brewer pointed out that the program will teach young men "how to be gentlemen" and teach participants to be "servant leaders."

"Every kid will be required to serve his community, feeding those that are less fortunate — even if they themselves are less fortunate — we're going to take them to go do our serving projects," he explained.

What else?

He added that faith is paramount above everything else.

“We gotta get God back in our schools," he insisted. "I'm a believer in that. And most importantly, we gotta get discipline back in our schools because when you're raised in discipline, then you demand discipline from other people as well. And right now we've gotten so free — when they pulled the paddles out of the schools in the mid eighties — that's where this all started. I say it all the time, some kids need the paddle. They need that, that fear of authority being able to tell them what's right or wrong. That's why you see people disrespecting cops like they do now."

Brewer vowed that no such behaviors would take place in any places where he is in charge.

“Well, none of that's going to go down in my school," he said. "I can't paddle them, but I'm going to do everything except for that. If you do anything that's disrespectful, speak disrespectfully, if you don't show the highest level of discipline, I will physically exert you as your punishment so that you understand that you have to be held accountable. We need the fear of God back in our schools, and we need our parents to start being parents again and not friends."

Chicago Bears disavow Brian Urlacher after his controversial post on NBA protests, Jacob Blake shooting



The Chicago Bears denounced former Hall of Fame linebacker Brian Urlacher for his stance against the recent NBA protests, which were spurred on by the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

A Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer shot Blake in the back seven times on Sunday following a call for a domestic disturbance.

What are the details?

Urlacher, who played 13 seasons with the Bears from 2000-12 and earned eight Pro Bowl selections, on Thursday wrote, "Brett Favre played the (Monday Night Football) game the day his dad died, threw 4 TDs in the first half, and was a legend for playing in the face of adversity. NBA players boycott the playoffs because a dude reaching for a knife, wanted on a felony sexual assault warrant, was shot by police."

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In a statement to NBC Sports, the team said, "The social media posts in no way reflect the values or opinions of the Chicago Bears organization."

The team also canceled a Thursday practice in a statement, pointing to Blake's shooting.

"In the wake of what has taken place in our backyard of Kenosha over the last couple of days, we as a team have a lot on our mind today," the statement said, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. "We decided to pause our football activities to voice to each other, our coaches and our staff where we stand on the real issues around race and police brutality in our country.

"We had a productive discussion, but we all agreed that talks and discussions are simply not enough anymore and we need action," the lengthy statement concluded. "We are putting in plans to take action in our communities, and together we believe we can make a real difference. We need action not only today but in the days to come."

What else?

Matt Forte, one of Urlacher's former teammates, shared similar sentiments on Twitter, writing, "The comment [Urlacher] posted is void of empathy, compassion, wisdom and coherence. But full of pride and ignorance! I pray for those who have been blinded by their wealth, privilege and earthly fame that breeds arrogance in their hearts. And those who refuse to acknowledge racism and injustice, but instead choose to place their energy into justifying it by quickly judging the victims [sic] life as if they themselves are more valuable because their sins are different or weren't caught by man... but God sees all."

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