Ravens LB Rolando McClain Says Police Arrested "Wrong" Man

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  1. Sweets

    Sweets All-Pro

    On the heels of his Sunday night arrest for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest charges, Rolando McClain says police have the wrong man.

    The recently signed Baltimore Ravens linebacker claims he wasn't the one who shouted and cursed at authorities as they worked to thin a crowd of 700 gatherers at a park in Decatur, Ala.

    "The situation could have been avoided on my part, but I was at the park in an attempt to keep my brother out of trouble as he said he was going to the park because some guys had spit on his car and had harassed him," McClain told the Madison Weekly News.

    "The police were already at the park when I arrived. I tried to get my brother to calm down. Police thought I cussed them. It wasn't me. They arrested the wrong guy."

    McClain, on the heels of two previous run-ins with Decatur Police, claims he was at a family barbecue when his brother showed up to complain about the uproar at the park.

    Decatur police spokesman Lt. John Crouch said authorities arrived at the scene to find a mob of gatherers. Crowds were spilling into the street and police asked them to disperse or face arrest, according to Crouch.

    "Some of the crowd was belligerent and began yelling back at the officers," Crouch said. "One of the individuals, as he was walking off the street, yelled to the crowd, '(Expletive) the police.' "

    That man, according to Crouch, was McClain, and he "jerked his arm away" and replied, 'You told me to walk and I'm walking,' ... "

    "He never swung at the officers. He just kept jerking away from them," Crouch said. "There was some pushing and shoving between the officers and McClain's friends, and members of the crowd actually stepped in to calm his friends down and try to let the officers do their job. In fact, some pushing and shoving occurred between his friends and the members of the crowd that were trying to get them to leave the police alone."

    Source: NFL.com
     
  2. 86WARD

    86WARD -

    Sure...
     
  3. mj1987us26

    mj1987us26 Super

    He is right, the police were look for FREAK Y'ALL. I didn't see him in the report.
     
  4. Diesel44

    Diesel44 Serial Killer

    must have mistaken him for ray lewis.:icon_smile: