Arrest warrant issued for Odell Beckham Jr. after locker room butt slap

[JonLP24]

New Orleans police on Thursday morning obtained an arrest warrant accusing NFL player Odell Beckham Jr. of simple battery in relation to a locker room interaction he had with a Mercedes-Benz Superdome police officer Monday night.

A police spokesman said the warrant was issued after a video showed Beckham apparently slapping a male officer's buttocks after LSU's championship game.

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Team members were smoking victory cigars in the locker room, and reports said an officer told the players that anyone caught smoking was subject to arrest.

Another officer later stepped in to tell players it was OK to smoke in the locker room, according to an AL.com report, and nobody was arrested and the party continued.

A law enforcement source said authorities originally sought a warrant for a misdemeanor sexual battery charge, but it was declined by a judge. The warrant was redrafted asserting a count of simple battery, and it was approved.

https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_16e90c06-387e-11ea-ba52-c35714f1e4cc.html

[brush]

1. Backside slapping happens numerous times in football games.

Is that battery too?

[exboyfil]

3. Physicality is part of the game and I suspect if an opposing

player slapped Bill Belichick's butt that their would be consequences.

That is a whole lot different than slapping a reporter's butt or an LEO's butt. I would have to say any physical contact with either beyond a handshake would be ill advised.

[Happy Hoosier]

5. Watch the video.... it wasn't cordial.... NT

[Lochloosa]

2. Oh FFS.

[ScratchCat]

4. I'm sorry

but... WHAT!?!?

Why would the judge even approve that when the cops tried to charge him with sexual battery? For fuck's sake, this is worse than when they tried to charge the Toronto Raptor's owner for "shoving" a security guard going to the floor to celebrate the title.

[jayfish]

6. It Was A Pretty Aggressive Action.

Watch the video. That being said we are over-legislated, over-enforced and over-incarcerated. This all could have been handled rationally and publicly between the two parties. Instead they jumped straight to "we gonna teach this boy a lesson".

[stopdiggin]

8. your points are all valid

would you also concede that ANY type of physical contact with an on duty PO is probably VERY ill advised? In fact STUPID? And then can we move on to privilege? What percentage of persons in the U.S. would undertake such an action -- with the expectation of no consequences?

[jayfish]

10. It Was A Weird Thing For An Adult To Do.

I was (and always am) ready to jump all over the cops until I saw the video. I was slightly shocked TBO.

[Laxman]

7. What In God's Name.....

were the cops doing in the locker room in the first place? Harassing a bunch of kids who just won the national championship? Really?

[stopdiggin]

9. don't know. but since more than one feature in this story

have to assume they were assigned. (at least I think that's the way it plays out)

[jayfish]

11. My Guess Is That Someone Complained about the cigar smoke/smell. -NT-