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Thread ID: 14093 | Posts: 7 | Started: 2004-06-07
2004-06-07 20:54 | User Profile
The pictures in the paper showed that the three football players were all black. Who would have ever guessed? This is also the same team that wants the taxpayers to foot the bill for another publicly funded stadium for these hoodlums and their millionaire owner.
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3 Vikings players arrested in assault
Tim Harlow
Star Tribune
Published June 7, 2004
Three Minnesota Vikings players and a fourth man were arrested early Sunday after police said officers saw them assaulting a man outside the Tabú nightclub in Minneapolis' Warehouse District.
According to the police report, the suspects continued to "kick, punch and stomp on the victim's body and head" after he was knocked unconscious. The motive for the attack was not known. Linebackers E.J. Henderson and Michael Nattiel, both 23, tight end Steven Farmer, 24, and the fourth man -- Nattiel's uncle -- were arrested at 2 a.m. outside the nightclub at 323 1st Av. N.
The victim, Troy Lamont Jones, 32, of Brooklyn Center, was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center, where he was treated and released. He was recuperating at home Sunday and is expected to make a full recovery, said his wife, Nakia Sema Williams.
Vikings head coach Mike Tice said Sunday that he was collecting information and that NFL rules prohibit him from commenting.
The alleged assault was the latest in a string of incidents in which current or former Vikings have had brushes with the law.
It also was the latest in a recent string of skirmishes in the Warehouse District in general and, specifically, near Tabú.
Henderson, Farmer and Nattiel had been freed from the Hennepin County jail by Sunday night after posting bail.
The fourth man was being held in lieu of $50,000 bail.
Police said they expect to present their findings to the county attorney by midweek. The suspects could be charged with third-degree assault, a felony.
Police spokesman Ron Reier said it was unclear what sparked the fight. As bars closed and people spilled onto 1st Avenue, officers on patrol "observed four suspects assault the victim, and even when the victim became unconscious, they continued to beat, kick and hit [him]," Reier said.
Williams refused to talk Sunday about what led to the incident involving her husband outside the nightclub, which has had several police calls in recent weeks. Reier said he was unsure how many times police have been called to Tabú, but said "there have been frequent and recent police calls involving fights and weapons at that place and in that area."
Last Thursday, police used pepper spray to disperse a large crowd outside the club after a fight broke out, and a shooting was reported on 1st Avenue between 3rd and 4th Sts. One person was arrested. In May, a man was arrested after a shooting at Tabú.
Tabú general manager Brian Zimmerman said he does not know if the Vikings players were in his club Saturday night because he doesn't follow football and would not recognize them. But he said Sunday morning's events are not endemic to his nightclub or the block.
"This behavior is typical of people hanging around," he said. "Is it unique to this area? I would say not. People get beat up and shot all over the city."
Problems in the past
The incident came just days after the Vikings players attended a team meeting about how to avoid run-ins with the law.
In April, Henderson was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in Maryland. Defensive end Kenny Mixon was found guilty of drunken driving in March.
In April, wide receiver Randy Moss reached an out-of-court settlement with a Minneapolis traffic-control agent he knocked to the ground with his car in September 2002.
And former Viking running back Ted Brown was charged with criminal sexual conduct for allegedly assaulting a woman during the team's 2003 Arctic Blast charity fundraiser. He is due to appear in court later this month.
Henderson, of Grand Prairie, Texas; Farmer, of Michigan City, Ind., and Nattiel, of Archer, Fla., have been participating in the Vikings' three-week development camp at the team's training facilities in Eden Prairie. The players will be eligible to practice pending the outcome of the investigation.
Henderson, who recently underwent surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee, is the likely candidate to take over at middle linebacker for Greg Biekert, who retired at the end of last season. Farmer also is recovering from knee surgery. Nattiel is a second-year player who has been practicing with the first team but appears to be a long shot at securing a starting position.
In addition to the charges and the discipline that could be handed out by Tice, the players face possible discipline from the NFL if they are convicted.
Staff writers Kevin Seifert and Chao Xiong contributed to this report. Tim Harlow is at [email]harlow@startribune.com[/email].
é Copyright 2004 Star Tribune. All rights reserved.
2004-06-08 07:08 | User Profile
How much you want to bet the owner of this degenerate, multiculturalist den of iniquity (or "club," as such places are inevitably called), one Brian Zimmerman, is a worthless jew? As a Jewish nightclub owner on the bad side of town, the likelihood that he's involved in organized crime is a virtual certainty, it should be noted.
2004-06-08 16:15 | User Profile
For more on this phenomenon, may I suggest [U]Pros and Cons: The Criminals Who Play in the NFL[/U], which can be picked up cheaply (used) on Amazon.com.
2004-06-08 16:34 | User Profile
This calls to mind the Ray Lewis incident in the entertainment district of Atlanta:
[url]http://baltimore.about.com/library/weekly/aa013100a.htm[/url]
Two problems are highlighted here. One is the issue of encouraging brutal thugs to become steroidically enhanced, while being promoted as heroes to kids and idiotic adult fans. These heroes are unleashed on their host cities; probably less than half of the incidents in which they are involved are reported. The NFL has become nothing less than a public crime syndicate; the weekly hiphop/tit-bare/Ubangi festivals are nearly as amoral as the Romans watching the lions feast.
The second problem is the elevation of black culture. The Lewis incident occured very soon after hiphop had arrived in Buckhead; before the opening of these clubs, there was very little serious crime in the district. No shootings or stabbings, just drunken college kids and the occasional big-haired floozy who tried to say "no" retroactively. Immediately after these clubs were licensed (or began operating illegally), there were assaults, stabbings and shootings reported nearly every week. The people involved, unless they were victims, were not the Ryan Anderson's and Kathy Johnson's from the suburbs or college campuses.
As expected, the long-awaited crackdown drew allegations of racism from the club-goers and management, even though the black mayor waited as long as possible to respond. Watch for the same in lily-white, "racist" downtown Minneapolis.
2004-06-09 01:19 | User Profile
[QUOTE=weisbrot]This calls to mind the Ray Lewis incident in the entertainment district of Atlanta:
[url]http://baltimore.about.com/library/weekly/aa013100a.htm[/url]
Two problems are highlighted here. One is the issue of encouraging brutal thugs to become steroidically enhanced, while being promoted as heroes to kids and idiotic adult fans. These heroes are unleashed on their host cities; probably less than half of the incidents in which they are involved are reported. The NFL has become nothing less than a public crime syndicate; the weekly hiphop/tit-bare/Ubangi festivals are nearly as amoral as the Romans watching the lions feast.
The second problem is the elevation of black culture. The Lewis incident occured very soon after hiphop had arrived in Buckhead; before the opening of these clubs, there was very little serious crime in the district. No shootings or stabbings, just drunken college kids and the occasional big-haired floozy who tried to say "no" retroactively. Immediately after these clubs were licensed (or began operating illegally), there were assaults, stabbings and shootings reported nearly every week. The people involved, unless they were victims, were not the Ryan Anderson's and Kathy Johnson's from the suburbs or college campuses.
As expected, the long-awaited crackdown drew allegations of racism from the club-goers and management, even though the black mayor waited as long as possible to respond. Watch for the same in lily-white, "racist" downtown Minneapolis.[/QUOTE]
I remember a time when the Atlanta cops used to prefer hanging out in Buckhead and make DUI arrests of rich white kids in BMWs instead of making drug busts of negroes in the projects because they made money off the former, whereas doing the latter cost them money.
2004-06-09 02:29 | User Profile
Troy Lamont Jones' ship just came in.
2004-06-09 19:27 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Blond Knight]The pictures in the paper showed that the three football players were all black.[/QUOTE]
Ain't da bruddres fault! Dem honkey muffuks made da brudders do it! Da honkeys had da brudders in slaverery f' ate hunnit muffikin yeerz, so da brudders had to do it! Blak powder!