So walmart security is in the business of covering up assault?

if something that Dez did 4 years ago is the reason why he'd be "banned from the NFL", that's just insane to me.

I guess if he murdered someone at Wal-Mart, then, well yeah. But if he was involved in a "domestic dispute" 4 ****ing years ago and it comes to light now and it's not because the woman involved reported it, then good ****ing grief. I don't even think he should face criminal prosecution for that.

This.

I don't even really buy that there's a video tape to be honest.

let's be honest, here

how many NFL players have hit their significant others in the past 10 years?

I'd be willing to bet there are a handful of planeteers that may have been involved in a domestic dispute or two.

4 years ago?

Come the **** on.

I don't condone domestic abuse, you know, ever ... but holding a guy who is in line for a new contract hostage because he did something 4 years ago is insane to me.

This country and its gross obsession with celebrities is awful.

I'm gonna say at least 30% hit their significant others.

His mother is a crack ho.

Jeff Ireland asked him if she was still a crack ho at the combine..ROFL

the NFL is a thug league

fine, let's ban Dez Bryant

but let's make the rules apply to everyone

any NFL player that is found to have been in any domestic dispute that was their fault in the past 15 years should be banned as well

let's just go on a big STEROIDS level which hunt and get rid of all the woman beaters in the NFL

that way Mike DeVito and Mike Catapano will be star players!

That therapist should lose his/her job.

That being said, not all areas have the same access to resources for kids with those backgrounds. In addition, because of the disjointed nature of some of these support resources, a lot of people including professionals (social workers, POs, therapists) don't know about them.

My wife is working under a federal grant for the county here and part of her job is case management. She's been tasked with gathering up all the local resources and putting it together for the other therapists to use in their case management as well.

racist

I like how the NFL has all of these issues (concussions, domestic violence) and they went years, and years, and years, and years without addressing them ... covering them up ...

now that TMZ and all of the idiot tabloid media uncovers all of it now we have to sit through commercials and ad campaigns like the NFL actually cares about these issues

uh, no

they care about the bottom line, and that's it

It's a joke. I'd respect the NFL more if they'd stop trying to feed the public bullshit about them caring about cleaning up these issues. They don't. Just put a ****ing clause in every contract that says, "by playing football you are waiving your rights to sue us due to any health related issues down the road" and "if you are convicted of domestic abuse your contract is subject to immediate termination" and stop shoving these ad campaigns down our ****ing throats.

We get it, NFL ... you're billionaire big business ... stop trying to pretend like you give a shit. You don't.

While I agree with the major thrust of your point, Hootie, I differ in what I'd do.

First of all, the player's union ain't going to agree to either of those proposed clauses.

loochyst

Wal-Mart = Walton family. Big boosters of the University of Arkansas, correct?

Isn't Jerruh a big booster of Arky as well?

I don't agree to either clause, either ... I'm just tired of the NFL pretending like they care.

That's not how it works. Walmart security isn't the police.

If the victim pressed charges, then Wal Mart needs to give up any evidence that they may have.

If no charges were pressed and the video was never requested, that's not Wal-Mart's problem.

He didn't go to college; he went to Oklahoma State.

According to the rumors it is Dez's ex-friends who somehow have the tape.

REACTIONS: If Schefter said it, it’s true

When asked about what’s going to happen to Bryant, Schefter reported that there is a video and said it’s a story he’s been working on since September.

Schefter never said there's a video. He said there MIGHT be a video.
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Is the video out yet? I'm tired of waiting.

I seriously doubt it contains any child porn, there's no reason for you to be so impatient.

Oh ho!!!! He got you good rook! You ****er!

Yeah because we all know that Jerry Jones wants to be ousted from the NFL.

Ok so wheres the video?

as if buying a video would ensure that it wouldn't eventually still come out. If it exists... he should just keep his money. The vid will come out eventually.

I don't think there's a video at all.
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Schefters explanation, however, leads us to believe this isn't some kind of bs speculation. There is something here. It sounds like there's a question of whether the story will ever leak, not whether it actually happened.

He himself is saying things alluding to the fact that there is one.

I wonder if someone is trying to sell it to the highest bidder.

It sounds to me like that's the biggest issue right now. It sounds like the reason it wouldn't come to light is because someone got bought off, not because it doesn't exist.

...which is probably common practice.

It'd be interesting to see how many videos, pics, audio recordings, etc. have been bought to keep out of the public eye.

He like everyone else has heard rumors about it but hasn't seen it, doesn't know anybody that has seen it and despite working on it for about half a year now, doesn't even know how to get it.
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Who's bidding on it? No one even knows whether it exists or not or where to go to buy it. So how can there be a bidding war?
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Schefter has a lot of credibility on the line. If he was at all unsure, he wouldn't have answered the way he did. He wouldn't spend most of his past 6 months chasing ghosts.

He sounds pretty damn confident this is more than just some small rumor. I don't think we can just chalk this up to just another false rumor. This one seems to have more legs.

Deadspin offered Cash for the tape.

How does he have credibility on the line? All he has done so far is basically say that there may or not be a video and that he's trying to find out how to get it. He hasn't taken any stance one way or the other on it.

And how can anyone say it has legs when literally no one has seen it? No screenshots have been sent to TMZ or dead spin or any site that specializes in things like this, so how can there be a bidding war or anything of the sort. Until someone says that they have seen it or have seen a screenshot, I'm going to treat this as a BS rumor.
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Buddy just sent me this via screenshot, won't tell me where got it.

Take it for what its worth:

So, beat the shit out of a dude then stuck a gun in his mouth

Schefter said he has spent a lot of energy on it. The details he gives makes it sound like there's a question of whether it's right for him to leak the info, not about doubt that the tape exists. He had multiple chances to soften his stance. He sounds pretty confident that what he knows is true.

Schefters spin adds credibility that florio did not. This went from a credible guy with sources, to a credible guy who seems to have much more direct information. The fact that schefter said what's holding up the release is complicated sure sounds to me that the hold up on release of the video has nothing to do with doubt about the videos authenticity.

He didn't sound confident in anything. He just sounds like a guy who has been chasing down what could be a very very huge story. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...nce-september/
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He sounds like a guy who knows certain things but is being very careful with the information he has. What would be complicated if this was purely a case of extortion for a video nobody has seen even a hint of video or image proof of? Schefter would have just passed this off as a rumor he is interested in.

Or just maybe, there are some bigger issues. Maybe Walmart is involved. Maybe legal authorities. Maybe the NFL. Maybe some privacy issues.

The media even when they have no facts hasn't been shy to blab about any false rumor that hits their desk. Why then are they so hush hush for months? I mean... Not even a "we don't know if this is true, but here's the rumor" deal. It sounds like they are being forced to keep quiet for some reason. That makes this much more curious than your average wild rumor.

Gun in the mouth.

I'm starting to think that screenshot is right.

Could also be bullshit.

Could also not be.

But could be.

It's a dude though. How is that worse than Rice?

If it was an old white man "defending himself" from a black kid, he'd be a badass hero.

That's going to be some serious shit if true.

Yes, he will be out of the NFL for good, and in jail for a long time.

I would have went straight to jerrah with that.

The entire media was somehow forced to keep quiet about "an incident 5x worse than Ray Rice" for 6+ months? Really?
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Sticking a gun in someones mouth is far worse than beating someone.

Consequences of False Imprisonment Charges
In most states, the level of threat or violence used when containing an individual to certain boundaries can raise the charge of false imprisonment from a misdemeanor to a felony. For example, if a mere threat without anything more is used to confine an individual, this may be charged as a misdemeanor. However, if it is later discovered that the threat was accompanied by a weapon, this could raise the level of the charge to a felony. In some states false imprisonment is always prosecuted as a felony. The consequences of such a conviction, in addition to possible lengthy prison sentences, may include future difficulty finding employment, loss or inability to acquire professional licenses, and other issues.

FWIW, I still think it was a catch.

Can you explain why this has been so hush hush, when the media doesn't have an issue making big deals out of stories with zero truth to them?

For some reason, the media has been extremely quiet about it. Not even hinting about what the rumor is. Seems like there is much more involved than verifying there is a video tape. There are rumors of sex tapes all the time where people can't verify one even exists. So how come for this particular tape, the media has known about it, spent a ton of time on the story, and has revealed absolutely nothing?

That's exactly what he sounds like. There's a difference between knowing for sure what went down and being ready to report it. At least if you aspire to being a reputable journalist there's a difference.

Because they don't have the video and haven't seen the video. They don't want a lawsuit.

Wooooooowwwwww.......(if true).

And that's stopped the media before from reporting character damaging stories with no hint of truth?

Again, how many sex tape claims have been reported even when no one has seen the tape?

Again, I doubt the media is going to be nervous about spreading the rumor about some videotape existing. I'm sure they kept quiet because there is a lot of legal stuff involved if we are to believe what's supposedly in the videotape. Why would schefter have this much interest dating back to last fall if all there was to the story was a potential videotape with zero evidence it even exists?

Maybe it was so hush hush because there literally was nothing to report. Even now all they can report on is a rumor.

I just don't see how you can say "They werent talking about something, so someone must have been forcing them to be quiet". Sound like something a conspiracy truther would say.
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So let's say they knew about it 6 months ago and were forced to keep quiet about it. So none of them tried to acquire the tape just so they'd be the first to release it when rumors finally broke? In 6 months and with multiple media companies involved, none of them were able to get the tape?

And if they were told to hush about it, why are they acting like they don't know if it exists or not?
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Don't know this guy, but saw it on twitter. Apparently he owns a scouting company.

Scott Bischoff
On Dez Bryant: I have not seen it, but I have heard about the video, heard all the details about what's on it and why it's coming out (1/4)
Bryant changed agents in November to Roc Nation and it was insinuated that the old agency was paying blackmail $$ to keep the video (2/4)

away from the public eye. Look at Jerry Jones’ reaction to Dez switching agents, not happy at all. Sounds like that $$ is no longer (3/4)

being paid and the Cowboys know it’s coming out, leading to a deal with Dez totally in limbo. Again, I have not seen the video. (4/4)

So, gotta connect the dots with all of this Dez stuff, just sharing what I have heard. Was told that the video is real, we shall see.

The rumor of a tape of this magnitude, even if it's total speculation, is beyond big news. You really think there's nothing to report? Look how many people were talking about this even without a single shred of evidence a tape exists. If this was news today, why wouldn't it have been last fall given that the story hasn't really changed?

And I'm not talking about a conspiracy theory. I am talking about a story with this much potential legal stuff at stake that even reporters who make their living off of gossip are being very tight lipped. Again, why would schefter have spent so much time digging into this if the only evidence that exists is some random guy shopping a video tape nobody has seen?

Perhaps the victim in this situation is Mike Catapano's intestines.

Excuse me Dez Bryant, but Javon Belcher will still be a bigger story.

NFL Media has produced the incident/investigation report regarding a 2011 incident in a Wal-Mart parking lot that involved Dez Bryant.

This is the incident that has been generating headlines and wild rumors over the last 24 hours. The report says an unknown person called police to explain 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 Bryant. When police arrived on the scene, the alleged victim was not there. Soon after, she arrived in a Bentley with Bryant and said she had an argument with a man named Alex Person and that she was not assaulted in any way. The police let everyone go, determining there was no offense. It remains unclear if there is any video of the incident, although most Wal-Marts have security cameras. You can read the full incident report at the link below.
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Jfc who gives a ****

The league will if this is legit.

little kids who look up to Dez

5 times worse than Ray Rice. LMAO

This is like that time George Bush did cocaine in college

Cowboys really went to some lengths to go for that Costco discount

July 11th of 2011 is the date in question.....its being reported on First Take as we speak. No arrests were made. Involved Dez Bryant and a female. Dez tweeted last night "I can't continue to get betrayed like this" which was taken down within minutes. Seems like a game of dirty pool by the Cowboys from an incident from 2011 while bargaining contract

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That's not at all what I heard...but that was back in late October and then talked to him again in mid November about it. I was told by a media member that it involved EXTREME violence and a gun, but not that it had anything to do with a walmart parking lot whatsoever. By that time the league already knew about both situations (there may even be a third situation) but didn't have anything they could base a suspension on.

At the time, he said there are "at least 2 situations involving Dez that could end his nfl career."

2 days later, Colin Cowherd did a 15 minute part on his show about it.

From what's came out about this walmart incident, I think it's the milder of the 2 situations.

Boss,

You've got to stop saying things like "I was told by a media member." We already don't take you serious, ever...

It's embarrassing.

ROFL

either way it might be best to avoid drafting Dez in fantasy next year as a 1st round pick...just saying

Maybe Goodell will destroy the tapes

Doesn't know enough about the details...

CP lexicons:

"I was told by a media member" = I was listening to the radio.

"I'm going to go back and watch tape of [x prospect]" = I'm going to youtube.com.

LMAO Yup.

Don't care what a few posters here that have never liked me think. I've never lied about anything I've posted on here and never will. Believe what you will.

LMAO