Former NFL football running back Zac Stacy was sentenced to six months in jail and a year of probation this week after being convicted of attacking his ex-girlfriend, an incident that was caught on camera.

The video from 2021 showed him throwing Kristin Evans around like a ragdoll, punching her in the head and throwing her into a flat screen television. Stacy was arrested in November of that year.

Stacy’s sentencing in Orange County, Florida, comes after he pled guilty to two counts of criminal mischief in exchange for getting his three counts of domestic violence battery dropped.

“He punched me several times in the head! I begged him to stop because the baby was on the couch just a few feet from where he punched me,” the woman wrote in the restraining order application. “He then picked me up and threw me into my TV. The TV began to fall and he turned to make sure I wasn’t getting up. As I laid on the floor he began to yell at me, telling me I’m destructive. He then picked me up off the floor and off my feet and body slammed me into our son’s bouncy seat.”

Stacy was a record-setting running back at Vanderbilt University, playing four years for the Commodores. In his 2012 senior season, he was named Second Team All-SEC, and became the first Vanderbilt player to rush for 1,000 yards in back-to-back seasons.

Stacy was drafted in the fifth round of the 2013 draft by the Rams, playing two years in St. Louis. He then played for one season for the New York Jets, where he appeared in eight games. Stacy finished his career with 1,355 rushing yards.

Stacy claimed that prior to the attack he had been treated in rehab for anxiety and depression; he also said that Evans had had an affair with his financial advisor, but he visited her house to support her. He stated, “She knew I was down; she knew I was going through anxiety and depression. She knew I was trying to close this gap that’s between me and my son, and she’s just upset that she got caught, and she’s upset I’m not taking care of him like she expected … And now she took it this far.”

Stacy later issued an apology over the incident, writing, “I am tremendously sorry and I sincerely hope the forgiveness comes down the road. The shame & guilt on my end is heavy & rightfully so. I made devastating mistake & that mistake has affected the people and communities around me that I love so dear.”

“The dynamic of my mental health has never been out in the public because I dealt with it individually & privately … through medications, therapy and coping mechanisms.. healthy & unhealthy,” he added. “Neither here nor there … despite the unknowns & regardless of the outcomes … All I want to do is move forward with peace so I can progress into a better man & father. ZJ I miss you & I love you baby boy, & I’m sorry that I put your mother in this situation .. along with you & I promise I’m going to do everything I can.. even with the little power that I have left .. to be the best papa I can be.”

Hank Berrien contributed to this report. 

“The world faces a serious crisis: one that will ruin whole economies, and lead to needless suffering and death. The crisis is related to climate change, but not in the way you’re probably thinking.”

Alex Epstein, author of ‘Fossil Future’ argues that a global energy shortage brought on by various climate policies is devastating the global economy. Fossil fuels currently provide 80% of the world’s energy, and the price of energy affects every other good in the supply chain, making rising fuel prices a major contributor to worldwide inflation, which is currently at record highs. In the United States, the average rate of year over year inflation was 8%, in the United Kingdom it was over 9%, and in Turkey the rate of inflation reached a staggering 54.8% in 2022.

“A shortage of anything leads to higher prices.” Epstein explains. “That’s just basic economics.”

Many governments, especially in the West, have restricted the production and use of fossil fuels. Epstein argued that these policies will result in many preventable deaths – more people die from extreme cold than extreme heat, so that in the winter months even people in affluent countries freeze to death due to insufficient warmth. Higher energy costs mean higher heating costs, which could lead to thousands of preventable deaths.

Epstein observed that the economic impact of the fossil fuel shortage is disproportionately felt by poorer countries, who are outbid by wealthier nations for what supplies remain – Europe, for example, has imposed widespread rationing of electricity in the last year, but poorer nations in Southeast Asia such as Pakistan and Bangladesh have experienced widespread blackouts during the same period.

The cost of fossil fuels has an especially profound effect on the price of food, as natural gas is a key component of many types of fertilizer and most farming equipment runs of diesel. Epstein cites a report from the World Farmers Food prices are “78% higher” than they were in 2021. In many parts of the developing world, farmers are currently unable to afford fertilizer, and even some who can afford it struggle to access limited supplies, putting many vulnerable populations at risk of malnutrition and starvation.

In Europe, energy shortages have become so severe that some firms in heavy industry have shut down, and some may never reopen.

Government induced shortages of fossil fuels and derivative products such as fertilizer were also major drivers of the recent revolution in Sri Lanka which saw desperate protestors storm the presidential palace and send several of their nation’s leaders into exile.

Epstein argued that while climate change was a real phenomenon, the more pressing global crisis was an artificial shortage of fossil fuels, not greenhouse gases, and that intermittent power sources such as solar and wind could not feasibly replace them.

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