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

[Longboysfan]

What a disgrace the media in this country has become...

It already is - watch NBC, CBS, ABC on a regular basis....

 

[BoysFan4ever]

I told you guys Jerry was going to buy Wal Mart & destroy the tape!

 

[popp1234]

Florio will find it guaranteed.

...or at least says he has a source, that has a source, who knows someone, who is familiar with the incident, that has a related video of an incident that took place in a nearby Target parking lot of someone, who his sources tell him, appears to look like Dez Bryant.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

This thing smelled from the very beginning.
Regardless of Dez's past issues.

 

[Sydla]

The latest article from Florio is priceless. The desperation in his stories is hilarious.

 

[LucaBrasi]

Jason LaCanfora ripped Florio from pillar to post over this on the overnight show on Sirius' Mad Dog Radio channel.

 

[Sydla]

LaCanfora, unfortunately, is a douchenozzle too.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Someone please hit Florio up with this.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Good now file a defamation suit...

Yup.

And Florio better have his pocket book open and he better hope he was smart enough to have incorporated himself because I don't think he has the money to win this one. Defamation/slander/libel suits need to show actual damages were made and then are rewarded based on what the jury would think the damages are, plus extra money for the grief the victim has suffered. With Dez he could easily argue that this report cost him tens of millions of dollars because he was going to become a free agent.

Jesse Ventura I believe was awarded roughly $2 million from his suit against Chris Kyle and Ventura is retired and living in Mexico. So imagine what the award would be for a player arguably considered the best WR in the league, in his prime, getting set for free agency.

And that would be just great to see.






YR

 

[Yakuza Rich]

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

No, I would feel sorry for the dumpster.






YR

 

[mickswag]

Yup.

And Florio better have his pocket book open and he better hope he was smart enough to have incorporated himself because I don't think he has the money to win this one. Defamation/slander/libel suits need to show actual damages were made and then are rewarded based on what the jury would think the damages are, plus extra money for the grief the victim has suffered. With Dez he could easily argue that this report cost him tens of millions of dollars because he was going to become a free agent.

Jesse Ventura I believe was awarded roughly $2 million from his suit against Chris Kyle and Ventura is retired and living in Mexico. So imagine what the award would be for a player arguably considered the best WR in the league, in his prime, getting set for free agency.

And that would be just great to see.






YR

Dez is also a public figure and would also have to prove actual malice. Very tough to meet that burden.

 

[hornitosmonster]

Yup.

And Florio better have his pocket book open and he better hope he was smart enough to have incorporated himself because I don't think he has the money to win this one. Defamation/slander/libel suits need to show actual damages were made and then are rewarded based on what the jury would think the damages are, plus extra money for the grief the victim has suffered. With Dez he could easily argue that this report cost him tens of millions of dollars because he was going to become a free agent.

Jesse Ventura I believe was awarded roughly $2 million from his suit against Chris Kyle and Ventura is retired and living in Mexico. So imagine what the award would be for a player arguably considered the best WR in the league, in his prime, getting set for free agency.

And that would be just great to see.






YR

Jesse Ventura did win his lawsuit and the story has been taken out of Kyle's book (can't do anything for the copies already sold). I know the family is appealing the $$ awarded. So yeah, I think Dez should sue if only to put the media on notice.

 

[mickswag]

Florio still isn't going to let this go:

 

[casmith07]

I think this should constitute a ban on all PFT material on this website.

 

[CowboyStar88]

It already is - watch NBC, CBS, ABC on a regular basis....

You forgot one Fox Entertainment news

 

[mugsybows]

Florio still isn't going to let this go:

florio will be in a rocking chair in a nursing home still talking about this video some day. dude wont let it go. he CANT be wrong. at this point he just sounds delusional and insane

i wouldnt be surprised if florio made one of those Chinese news animation videos of the incident and posts it on PFT as this is what probably happened that night.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Dez is also a public figure and would also have to prove actual malice. Very tough to meet that burden.

Agreed. But, I think he has a case here as Florio is claiming the tape exists and apparently it doesn't even exist. That's what makes the case appealing to an attorney wanting to represent Dez.




YR

 

[Silver N Blue]

So let it be written so let it be said! Time to move on and let the haters keep hating!

 

[Dave_in-NC]

I found the video.

 

[Direwolf63]

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.

This is a absolute joke. Does he go looking for these details for every indicent of every NFL player? If so, he'd need to hire a squadron of guys digging for dirt.

He has his crosshairs set on Dez for some reason. This would be a non-story of it were any other NFL player.