This link has a video of the news conference plus links to earlier articles and Bennett's letter.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.3a0be4e5ea03

Las Vegas police say there was ‘reasonable suspicion’ to detain Seahawks’ Michael Bennett

By Jeremy Gottlieb September 29 at 8:37 PM

Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo announced during a Friday news conference that “no evidence” has been found to suggest the use of excessive force when Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett was detained last month following the Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight, and that “the incident was not about race.”

Per the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Lombardo showed and described video footage of the incident and said police acted “appropriately and professionally” when detaining Bennett. Lombardo said 861 videos were examined and reviewed, and he described 193 of them as “pertinent.” The officer who initially detained Bennett did not have his body camera turned on at the time of the incident.

Bennett described the incident as a case of “simply being a black man in the wrong place at the wrong time,” in a Twitter post earlier this month, adding that an officer put a gun near his head and threatened to “blow my [expletive] head off.”

According to Lombardo, the total time of Bennett’s detainment was 10 minutes. The NFL player can be heard on the footage released saying that he didn’t do anything wrong. Lombardo also said that the officers involved had reasonable suspicion to stop Bennett, and that they “did what they were trained to do.”

Bennett’s attorney disagreed with Lombardo’s assessment, per the Review-Journal, repeating that the Seahawks star believes he was racially profiled. Lombardo said Bennett did nothing criminal to warrant being detained. Bennett was not arrested or charged following the incident.

The best part was how he acted like such a bitch... "ok man..I aint got no problem man..." practically crying in the back of the police car. Tough guy!

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Originally posted by AirmanJeff:
The best part was how he acted like such a bitch... "ok man..I aint got no problem man..." practically crying in the back of the police car. Tough guy!

Absolutely. That was my immediate take and my daughter texted me about a minute later saying the same thing. Plus a lying POS.

Quite shocking how the Police Officers went clearly out of their way, by-passing all the black patrons to profile the black NFL player!

I think Bennett might have a better case claiming Police profile NFL players, they do seem to have a lot of interactions with them.

Then again it could just be as simple as act like a thug, get treated like a thug.

It wasn't difficult for me to give up the nfl. For the last 5 or 6 years I watched I had to turn the sound off because of the stupid announcers trying to make a simple game into rocket science. I also had to have a good crossword to occupy me during the endless dumb commercials. Instead of getting rid of the thugs or doing something about concussions the nfl made a federal case out of the air in a football.

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lying POS.

Yet this matter will be remembered as truth for the grievance peddlers and the SJWs who use these events to justify their claims of mass racism, genocide and the need to violently confront identified targets for the sake of social justice. Mush brained combatants all over the nation are preparing themselves ideologically and emotionally to impose terrible consequences on anyone they brand with the proper labels and they do it on myth based urban legends. They will harm a lot of innocents in the balance thanks to liars and malcontents like Bennett and that POS Michael Brown's friend (Hands up don't shoot).