News: Closing the book: Walmart says they don't have Dez video and never did

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@dkaplanSBJ: For AM Crowd: If there is a Dez Bryant video, Wal-Mart told me yesterday it doesn't have it and never did. (cont) http://t.co/HijZSGGYuM
daniel kaplan · @dkaplanSBJ
6th Mar 2015 from TwitLonger

For AM Crowd: If there is a Dez Bryant video, Wal-Mart told me yesterday it doesn't have it and never did. Spoke to Wal-Mart about the much reported, over the last 2 weeks, altercation on July 11, 2011 in which the police responded to a 6 AM call saying a woman had been dragged out of a car in a Lancaster, Texas Wal- Mart parking lot. The police report, just made public last week, said the car is registered to Bryant, and he arrived shortly after the police, with the woman. The woman said she had an argument with a man other than Bryant and no charges ensued, according to the police report.
Last week, talk there was a videotape of the incident emerged on talk radio and and in print.
So i called Wal-Mart to see if the company had this much rumored video tape.
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.
No crime had occurred, he said, so the Lancaster Police did not request the footage from the company’s security system.
And it would be too late now to do so, he added. The company’s security protocol eliminates footage after a certain period of time, he said, and that time has passed.
This doesn't preclude the existence of a video tape, just that Wal-Mart's official statement is no videotape is or has been in the possession of the shopping giant.
 

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lol.

Oh man let the backtracking and BSing about this or that begin.

I'd love it if Florio was never heard of again until like 10 years from now and someone did a where are they now on him and they find out that he's serving coffee at a Starbucks in a mall somewhere.
 

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Wal-Mart says it doesn’t have video of July 2011 incident
Florio's spin: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...s-it-doesnt-have-video-of-july-2011-incident/

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.
 

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lol.

Oh man let the backtracking and BSing about this or that begin.

I'd love it if Florio was never heard of again until like 10 years from now and someone did a where are they now on him and they find out that he's serving coffee at a Starbucks in a mall somewhere.

NBC needs to get him off their Sunday night games. after these BS rumors he spread as facts about Dez. he has no cred left. NBC should be embarrassed. they are the blame if they keep this scumbag on their air. can't do anything about his Dez/Cowboys hate website(he owns it) but NBC needs to fire his A--
 

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lol.

Oh man let the backtracking and BSing about this or that begin.

I'd love it if Florio was never heard of again until like 10 years from now and someone did a where are they now on him and they find out that he's serving coffee at a Starbucks in a mall somewhere.

I'm not a Starbucks fan, but please don't insult them...:laugh:....just let him go away, and not care where.

I actually like McDonalds coffee better, and it's $1 compared to $4 or what ever is. But when I do go to a Starbucks [once every year or so], I just tell them just give me a good old American black coffee...no fancy lingo names...LOL
Even when I was in South Korea, the top of the list at a coffee house was....Americano...

OK, Starbucks sarcasm off....LOL
 

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Why would Walmart have a video that old? Unless the IT guy purposely backed it up they wouldn't keep something that old.
 

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Florio just needs to stop before he gets sued into oblivion. And IF there was a tape, maybe a Walmart employee/Cowboy fan did Dez and the Cowboys a solid and "accidentally" deleted it.
 

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More like ridiculous.. He's questioned the police handling of the incident, the past and current DA's process of it, and ignores all evidence to the contrary.

And just further destroys his own credibility each and every time he brings it up.
 

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lol.

Oh man let the backtracking and BSing about this or that begin.

I'd love it if Florio was never heard of again until like 10 years from now and someone did a where are they now on him and they find out that he's serving coffee at a Starbucks in a mall somewhere.

Living out of a dumpster would be a better ending.............
 

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Why would Walmart have a video that old? Unless the IT guy purposely backed it up they wouldn't keep something that old.

Exactly.
And it would have been someone in security noticing this, or the police going to ask them to view it. It would / should have came out then, shortly after it happened. Even if deemed a non issue by the police, people rush to show this type of stuff. Most don't have the patience to hang on to it this long.
Then that security person would need to make a copy. It Walmart does have an IT person on duty, then more people would know about it.
Most security people can make back ups, or should be able to.
 

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No, Florio, Walmart stated there was no reason to have a video. Big difference.
 
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