Cleveland Browns player facing public exposure charge in Florida

[left-of-center2012]

Cleveland Browns defensive tackle Malik McDowell was arrested Monday in Florida on charges of aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest with violence and public exposure, according to an online record from the Broward Sheriff's Office.

According to the incident report, police in Deerfield Beach, Florida, reported getting a call of
a naked man walking near a school, later to be determined as a children's learning center that was in session. When confronted,
McDowell charged at police "full speed with closed fist," according to the report, leaving a deputy injured. The officer said he was unable to avoid McDowell's attack or use any "de-escalation tactics." McDowell slammed into the officer and punched him in the right eye and on the top of the head, according to the report.

McDowell then fled, but eventually was shocked with a Taser and handcuffed. The officer said his right eye was nearly closed because of swelling from the punches he absorbed in the attack and there is a "likelihood that I sustained permanent injury to my eye.''

In 2019, McDowell was charged in Michigan with driving while impaired, obstructing justice and assaulting a police officer. Video showed McDowell fighting with police even after they stunned him with a Taser following a DUI stop.
Two months later, he was found in possession of a stolen truck, leading to another charge of receiving and concealing stolen property. He was sentenced to 11 months in jail and three years' probation after pleading guilty to the series of crimes.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/33092379/cleveland-browns-dt-malik-mcdowell-arrested-battery-officer-resisting-arrest-public-exposure

[BlueTsunami2018]

1. Sounds like dude has some serious issues.

CTE or otherwise, this person clearly needs mental help. He’s lucky the cops haven’t killed him already.

[Botany]

2. CTE no doubt

n/t

[BlackSkimmer]

3. What is it with these players lately?

There’ve been quite a few of these type incidents.

[hunter]

4. Mug shots courtesy of The Scary Black Man Portrait Corporation...

... serving all U.S.A. news media outlets.

No worries, affluent white America, your precious daughters with similar substance abuse and/or psychiatric problems will never experience this kind of media coverage unless they are especially unattractive and do something uncommonly salacious.

[left-of-center2012]

6. Nope

Any reader of 'Smoking Gun' knows that's not true.

Plus, when available (regardless of race, gender, etc) I post mugshots with threads when available.

[Yoyoyo77]

8. I think the comment concerned the biases (conscious or not) of the news photogs and editors.

[hunter]

9. I'm not saying he's a nice guy...

... but those portraits are obviously 'shopped.

[BlackSkimmer]

7. Huh?

Pretty sure a woman who walks nude around a school is going to make news too.

Imagine if a notable female athlete did that? Yeah, it’d be on the news. How they look in their mug shot is hardly the fault of the news media.

[Botany]

10. He is a scary man. He is 6'6", 300 pounds, runs a 4.8 40, and he can bench press 200 pounds 23 times

n/t

[MichMan]

12. I'm sure the fact that he plays for a NFL team might have something to do with it.

[blm]

5. Steroids + CTE

Probably not a good outcome.

[hunter]

11. Yep, a lot going on there.

Which is why so many U.S. citizens have their mental health care needs provided for in prison.