Twitter: Statement from Vegas Police regarding Zeke's incident

[Mountaineerfan]

Public intoxication is grounds for an arrest. No field sobriety test was ordered. Were you there? Did you hear what was said? Throw your stones, sinless one.

He's actually very correct. Police agencies especially those in tourist cities like Las Vegas are simply used to dealing with everyone with kid gloves. If they started arresting people in town for conventions and festivals for simply being drunk then you would see fewer attractions come back to town.

 

[Jake]

No charges + Zeke = 6 game suspension

Charges have little to do with the PC policy, but I guess going on about conspiracies is easier than actually reading it.

https://static.nfl.com/static/content/public/photo/2017/08/11/0ap3000000828506.pdf

 

[QuincyCarterEra]

What is EDC?

Electric Daisy Carnival

It has a few locations every year, but Vegas is by far the largest and most attended

 

[Rayman70]

a young guy makes another DUMB mistake. Could have been avoided. Pollard better be ready.

 

[fairviewfarmer]

Goodell will suspend him, simply because he can. Its just a matter of time until he does. .........

 

[Longboysfan]

No charges + Zeke = 6 game suspension

Yes.

 

[ItzKelz]

Charges have little to do with the PC policy, but I guess going on about conspiracies is easier than actually reading it.

https://static.nfl.com/static/content/public/photo/2017/08/11/0ap3000000828506.pdf

I stated a fact.

 

[iceberg]

No it’s attention worthy because he’s a NFL player. The persecution angle that he’s a Cowboy is hilarious.

He’s a NFL player with a history of off the field issues and bad judgment who has been under the league office’s microscope doing something incredibly stupid.

yea, not like this is his first rodeo.

 

[iceberg]

Plus, the idea that this is only a story because he’s a Cowboy is wrong too. How is it we know so much about the stupid stuff Grink has done?

Because his crap was also reported by the press and sites like TMZ.

look around at other players booted from their teams last year cause of their off the field behavior. zeke isn't at that point but this "just picking on cowboys" is stupid and allowing yourself to be blind to the rest of the league.

 

[OmerV]

Goodell will suspend him, simply because he can. Its just a matter of time until he does. .........

Lets don’t act as if Zeke didn’t act stupidly though, or that he shouldn’t have been aware that he is in the public eye and his actions could be caught on video.

 

[cern]

He's actually very correct. Police agencies especially those in tourist cities like Las Vegas are simply used to dealing with everyone with kid gloves. If they started arresting people in town for conventions and festivals for simply being drunk then you would see fewer attractions come back to town.

You are correct. Zeke would have to have committed another crime to have been arrested. Still, I just didn't see much in the way of any wrongdoing on his part on film. And neither did the police.

 

[OmerV]

You are correct. Zeke would have to have committed another crime to have been arrested. Still, I just didn't see much in the way of any wrongdoing on his part on film. And neither did the police.

The police didn’t have a complainant. The security guard chose not to press charges. In any case, there are sloppy drunks like that at those kinds of events all the time, and the policy can’t be to arrest them all. But that doesn’t change the fact Zeke put himself in a position where he very easily could have been arrested. It was stupid.

 

[Mountaineerfan]

You are correct. Zeke would have to have committed another crime to have been arrested. Still, I just didn't see much in the way of any wrongdoing on his part on film. And neither did the police.

I saw plenty to have him arrested for if he didn't have friends with him. Mostly because in that state of inebriation an officer could not let him walk away on his own. Public intox charges are as much about the safety of those individuals as the public not wanting to deal with them.

 

[Clarkson]

It was minor, but he did do something. He got drunk, got in a security guards face and forced him back against a gate making him fall down. As the guy is going down you can clearly see he put a shoulder into him. Not a big deal for an average Joe, but Zeke is not an average Joe. He needs to be smarter than that. Nothing wrong with going out and getting your drink on, but if you're the kind of drinker that gets aggressive and always thinks somebody said something to you, or looked at you wrong, bumped you, or did something else that triggers you, and you're an NFL player, stay your butt at home. I know plenty of people like that. As soon as they get to a certain level of drunk, they're looking for somebody to fight. Doesn't matter who or why.

yep. not going to crucify zeke for this, but he needs to be smarter here. needs to learn to walk away and be done with it giving how high his profile is and the "issues" he's had before.

 

[fairviewfarmer]

Lets don’t act as if Zeke didn’t act stupidly though, or that he shouldn’t have been aware that he is in the public eye and his actions could be caught on video.

Very true.

 

[Future]

Assault on a security guard is nothing? Strange take.

That's not assault.

And can we stop acting like because the guy is a security guard means anything. He's just some guy who mouthed off.

 

[Future]

Well sure he’s 23. But the moment he decided to be a professional football player, he no longer is your normal 23 year old.

Hard no.

Why fans have the desire to dehumanize athletes is beyond me.

 

[Future]

He’s a nationally known figure, and he should know as much as anyone that people will video anything he does in public. He can’t pretend he is some anonymous guy in some remote corner of the country. He’s actually lucky he didn’t get arrested for public intoxication, and like it or not, he could have been arrested for the incident with the security guard had the guard wanted to press charges. That’s the reality of the situation.

It says more about the people who care about the video than it does Zeke. He - nor any other athlete - should have to worry about that nonsense.

What'd he blow for you to know he was "sloppy drunk?"

 

[erod]

Zeke had to leave 4 hours later to get back to Dallas for his morning football camp.

Did he look like a guy ready to conduct a kids football camp?

 

[aria]

Public intoxication is grounds for an arrest. No field sobriety test was ordered. Were you there? Did you hear what was said? Throw your stones, sinless one.

Didn’t have to be there but to say the police didn’t think he was drunk or stoned and that’s why they released him is naive. Sinless? Hardly, which is part of the reason I know he very well could have been hammered and the police still let him go.