Other Dez Bryant - Video Infamy

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TheGreatBarryB said:
Do the NFL and Cowboys know about this video previously existing? Has it already been presented to police? Hmmm
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You would assume the Cowboys and/or the NFL knew of it's existence if, like it says in the article GG posted, Adam Schefter has been chasing the story since September.
 
Police report: Dez Bryant questioned in 2011 incident
Dallas Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant was questioned and cleared in connection with a 2011 incident, according to a police report published Thursday by NFL Media's Ian Rapoport.

http://www.si.com/nfl/2015/02/26/dez-bryant-cowboys-free-agency-contract

According to the report, an officer was dispatched around 6 a.m. to the parking lot to respond to an "unknown disturbance." Multiple vehicles registered to Bryant were in the lot before Bryant arrived, and the receiver arrived later in a different car, the report says. The officer then spoke with Bryant.


some gang related s**t went bad? Anyway sounds like a big nothing, Boys fans can release sphincter muscles
 
rumply said:
Police report: Dez Bryant questioned in 2011 incident
Dallas Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant was questioned and cleared in connection with a 2011 incident, according to a police report published Thursday by NFL Media's Ian Rapoport.

http://www.si.com/nfl/2015/02/26/dez-bryant-cowboys-free-agency-contract

According to the report, an officer was dispatched around 6 a.m. to the parking lot to respond to an "unknown disturbance." Multiple vehicles registered to Bryant were in the lot before Bryant arrived, and the receiver arrived later in a different car, the report says. The officer then spoke with Bryant.


some gang related s**t went bad? Anyway sounds like a big nothing, Boys fans can release sphincter muscles
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Makes sense with what he tweeted
 

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The rumour going round in NFL media circles is that he king hit a woman and walked off like it was nothing. No idea how accurate that is, but that's what I've heard from two friends of mine who have NFL Media credentials in the States.
 
rumply said:


some gang related s**t went bad? Anyway sounds like a big nothing, Boys fans can release sphincter muscles
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Chewy316 said:
The rumour going round in NFL media circles is that he king hit a woman and walked off like it was nothing. No idea how accurate that is, but that's what I've heard from two friends of mine who have NFL Media credentials in the States.
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Maybe not.
 
Lancaster, Tex. police say they have no video of the July 2011 incident involving Dez Bryant in a Walmart parking lot.

Police had already said they were summoned but made no arrests. Now we know they don't have the supposed smoking-gun video that's been the subject of innuendo and Twitter hysteria over the past 48 hours. The episode should begin fading from memory.


Source: Dallas Morning News
 
Lancaster police say they don’t have Wal-Mart video
Posted by Mike Florio on February 26, 2015, 4:53 PM EST
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When Ian Rapoport of NFL Media secured and published the police report from a July 11, 2011 incident at a Lancaster, Texas Wal-Mart, the chase for the surveillance video corresponding to that incident intensified.

First up, the Dallas Morning News attempted to get the video from the Lancaster, Texas police.

“Rona Stringfellow, assistant city manager for Lancaster, said in an email that the police department has no video of the incident,” writes David Moore of the Morning News.

It’s not surprising that the Lancaster police doesn’t have the video. The responding officer, M.L. Johnson, makes no mention of reviewing the video or of preserving it in his report. Absent a follow-up report, there’s no reason to think the Lancaster, Texas police ever had a copy of the video in their files.

The more likely custodians of the video are Wal-Mart, which undoubtedly had a video of what happened in the parking lot at some point in time, and the Dallas County District Attorney. On Friday, February 20, I made a written request to the Dallas County District Attorney for the incident report and video under the Texas Public Information Act; I’ve yet to get a response.

Wal-Mart may have the video either at its Lancaster, Texas store or at the corporate office in Bentonville, Arkansas. It has no legal obligation to release the video, but there’s likely no legal prohibition on doing so, either.

In addition to the inevitable requests that will be made to the potential custodians of the video, don’t be surprised to learn that members of the media are actively seeking comment from Carl King, Christopher Mitchell, Alex Penson, and the alleged victim. All four are mentioned in the report, and all four may be able to answer some of the lingering questions regarding the incident and the investigation of it.
 
So here is what happens in the video explained....

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NFL Media releases 2011 Wal-Mart incident report involving Dez Bryant
Posted by Mike Florio on February 26, 2015, 8:49 AM EST
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In November, Ian Rapoport of NFL Media rattled off a laundry list of occasions when police were called to the home of Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant. The raw number of incidents — six — was troubling. But the content of each specific instance showed that, in isolation, they were nothing.

As mentioned last Friday, February 20, when I inadvertently let the cat out of the bag regarding the previously worst-kept secret among reporters covering the NFL, Rapoport’s overhyped Dez Bryant rap sheet was the result of a chase for a much bigger prize: The long-rumored video of an incident involving Dez Bryant doing something he shouldn’t have been doing.

Since Friday, much has been written and said about the rumored Dez Bryant video. As it turns out, the NFL was in possession of relevant evidence on the subject several days before I blurted out the existence of the rumor on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas.

In a letter dated February 17, the City of Lancaster, Texas police department produced to NFL Media via the Texas Public Information Act an incident/investigation report from July 2011 regarding a police response to the Lancaster Wal-Mart.

The report mentions that an unknown person called the police to explain that a black female was “being dragged from one vehicle to another vehicle” by a black male. The vehicle the woman was dragged from was a Mercedes registered to Dez Bryant.

When a police officer responded, a Wal-Mart security guard explained that he arrived at the scene with the door to the Mercedes still open and a child’s toy on the ground, but that no one was present. Then, two men pulled up in an Escalade registered to Dez Bryant. The two men, Carl King and Christopher Mitchell, said they received a call from the alleged victim, asking them to pick up “her” Mercedes.

Then, a Bentley arrived in the parking lot, with the alleged victim and Dez Bryant inside. The alleged victim claimed that she had an argument with a man named Alex Penson, that she was not assaulted or injured in any way, and that it was “just an argument” with Penson. The alleged victim claimed she was dropped off at a friend’s house, and that she contacted Bryant to pick her up.

The responding officer determined after talking to all parties that there was no offense, and that everyone was free to go.

The report doesn’t mention the availability of Wal-Mart surveillance video, or the contents of it. Instead, it appears that the responding officer accepted the version(s) supplied by King, Mitchell, Bryant, and the alleged victim, and closed the case.

Most if not all Wal-Mart stores have surveillance cameras blanketing the property. Indeed, the longstanding rumor making the rounds among NFL reporters has been not just that an incident occurred at a Wal-Mart parking lot, but that there is video of it.

In digesting the report, keep this in mind: The report makes no mention of the car to which the victim was allegedly dragged. The video may show the other car. The video may show the person doing the dragging, if dragging actually happened. The video may show whatever preceded the dragging of the woman from “her” Mercedes to another car. The video may show the other car driving away.

Eventually, the video is coming out. In the interim, Bryant, Carl King, Christopher Mitchell, Alex Penson (whoever he is), and the alleged victim can expect to be pursued by members of the media for more details regarding what did and didn’t happen in that Wal-Mart parking lot.
 
GG said:
When a police officer responded, a Wal-Mart security guard explained that he arrived at the scene with the door to the Mercedes still open and a child’s toy on the ground, but that no one was present. Then, two men pulled up in an Escalade registered to Dez Bryant. The two men, Carl King and Christopher Mitchell, said they received a call from the alleged victim, asking them to pick up “her” Mercedes.

Then, a Bentley arrived in the parking lot, with the alleged victim and Dez Bryant inside. The alleged victim claimed that she had an argument with a man named Alex Penson, that she was not assaulted or injured in any way, and that it was “just an argument” with Penson. The alleged victim claimed she was dropped off at a friend’s house, and that she contacted Bryant to pick her up.
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Bullshit written all over it.
 
So this supposably happened when?? July 2011.. o_O And nothing has come of it since early 2015.. :rolleyes:

Party on Wayne.. Party On Garth..

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manureid said:
So in short, he has done something pretty bad, some of his 'people' have covered it up for him, but now he wants to get away from said 'people' and they are going to out him.
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So something that has occurred in previous times (over 3 years ago) NEEDS to be disciplined in the capacity of NFL game suspension?? that's just garbage. I'm with TGBB… it's just the media digging up a dry bone because SOMEONE wants $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
An interesting take on the Journalistic integrity of the reporting of the rumour . . . .



The Instant Historian: Confirming Dez Bryant Rumors Exist Is Now Journalism?

Mike Florio did a radio interview. He mentioned rumors among insiders about a “Ray Rice-type” video involving Dallas Cowboys WR Dez Bryant. Adam Schefter, also on radio, noted he’s been investigating the rumor since September. Mike Florio doubled back with a blog post about Adam Schefter confirming the rumor’s existence. An unfounded rumor became a full-fledged story, without anyone taking ownership or responsibility for it.

It has been a while since the Instant Historian attended a journalism ethics class – Twitter did not yet exist. Folks were worried about “blogs.” It was basically the Bronze Age. But, standard operating procedure then, when presented with a multiple-hand rumor no one had verified wasdon’t ******* report that. Don’t tiptoe around reporting it on a technicality. Don’t update the public with your reporting progress on that which you cannot report.

Reporters now operate as multimedia superstars. The medium for information has become irrelevant. The vetting process may be different for a written AP-style article, a tweet, or an offhand comment on TV/Radio/Podcast. But, how the information is processed and disseminated, with social media, is one and the same. Radio-chatterer Mike Florio should not be publicly discussing something blogger Mike Florio won’t publish on his website.

http://thebiglead.com/2015/02/27/th...ng-dez-bryant-rumors-exist-is-now-journalism/
 
Jerry Jones definitely paid off Wal-Mart to eliminate the video....

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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...s-it-doesnt-have-video-of-july-2011-incident/
Wal-Mart says it doesn’t have video of July 2011 incident
Posted by Mike Florio on March 5, 2015, 10:16 PM EST
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In the early-morning hours of July 11, 2011, someone called the Lancaster, Texas police to explain that a man pulled a woman from a Mercedes registered to Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant and dragged her to another car. A woman later returned with Bryant to the scene to tell the police that she wasn’t assaulted “in any way.”

Despite this conflict in the evidence, the Lancaster, Texas police officer didn’t enter the Wal-Mart store and request an immediate opportunity to review the available surveillance video. Which means that Wal-Mart didn’t officially preserve the video evidence that would have been captured by its cameras.

Not surprisingly, that’s exactly what Wal-Mart told Daniel Kaplan of SportsBusiness Journal on Thursday.

“Wal-Mart director of national media relations, Brian Nick, said because no charges had been filed, the company would not have pulled the security footage at the time and created a videotape of the incident,” Kaplan writes.

Implicit in Nick’s answer is that security footage of the incident at one point existed and was in the possession of Wal-Mart for a period of time after the incident occurred. Nick also was explaining the company’s normal procedures in cases like this; as a corporate-level employee, he wouldn’t know whether someone at the Lancaster Wal-Mart decided on his or her own to preserve the footage.

Nearly two weeks ago, when I mentioned during an appearance on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas that multiple NFL insiders were investigating the existence of a videotape of an incident involving Dez Bryant, I made it very clear that I didn’t know whether a video exists. I still don’t know whether a video exists. I said that people who cover the NFL had been aggressively pursuing the story (including the possible existence of a video), and that many league insiders are aware of the story. Adam Schefter of ESPN thereafter confirmed that, indeed, people who cover the NFL had been aggressively pursuing the story.

Though I shared no specifics during the February 20 segment with Shan Shariff and R.J. Choppy of 105.3 The Fan, the police report obtained last month and published last week by NFL Media meshes with the details I’d been given back in November: (1) something happened outside a Dallas-area Wal-Mart; (2) the incident occurred in 2011; and (3) the incident involved a woman being dragged across the parking lot.

Currently, we know the Lancaster police department doesn’t have the video because the Lancaster police officer never asked to see it. We also now know that a Wal-Mart spokesman claims it didn’t preserve the video as a matter of corporate policy because law enforcement didn’t ask Wal-Mart to do so.

But we don’t know whether anyone at Wal-Mart preserved the images separate from an official law-enforcement directive to do so. We also don’t know whether Carl King or Christopher Mitchell, who arrived at the scene in an Escalade registered to Bryant to retrieve the Mercedes that was parked with the door still open, will share with the media what they know about the incident.

Likewise, we don’t know anything about Alex Penson’s knowledge of the incident; he’s the man with whom the alleged victim claims she simply had an argument. Even though the police report says the officers spoke with “all parties involved,” there’s no evidence that anyone ever asked Penson whether he was in the Wal-Mart lot on or about 6:00 a.m. on July 11, 2011, whether he had an argument with the alleged victim, and/or whether he dragged her out of the Mercedes registered to Dez Bryant and/or dragged her to another car.

It’ll be interesting to see whether King, Mitchell, and/or Penson ever talk to the media about what happened in the Wal-Mart parking lot that morning.
 
The NFL was unable to find video of an incident involving Dez Bryant in a Wal-Mart parking lot.

The alleged incident took place in Lancaster, Texas in 2011, though it wasn't widely reported until a few months ago. A damaging off-field event could diminish Bryant's value as he looks for his next contract. Until a video surfaces, this remains a non-story.

Source: Dallas Morning News
 
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