Pal wrote: This will never be addressed. Bennett lucked out with that coming out today of all days. Buried.
It's filtered through Travis' lens but here's a breakdown of it .
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Las Vegas Police Prove Michael Bennett Lied About Racism Charges
Posted on September 30, 2017 by Clay Travis - OKTC
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Back on September 7th I was the only person brave enough to point out something important — Michael Bennett was lying about most of the claims of racism he had levied against Las Vegas police. As the rest of the sports media fell all over themselves to condemn the Las Vegas police, I actually reviewed the evidence and pointed out that Bennett’s story didn’t add up.
And for that I was ridiculed and called racist by thousands online.
But, guess what, when I know I’m right, I don’t run from critics, I double and triple down.
The title of my piece didn’t tip toe up to my opinion either, it was straightforward and direct — Michael Bennett Is Lying.
Yesterday afternoon the Las Vegas police, after reviewing 193 different videos of that night, released a two minute video that proves their officers didn’t racially profile Bennett, didn’t use excessive force, and treated Bennett with respect throughout their interaction. (Bennett’s defenders, a tiny group compared to the people who initially believed him, are complaining because this video is edited, but that’s because it’s spliced together from multiple cameras to give a coherent picture of what transpired that night.)
I want you to watch this video right now before you read anything else from me.
Several things to note from this video:
1. Michael Bennett looks incredibly suspicious crouching and running when the police are looking for an active shooter.
Police had a reasonable suspicion to stop and detain him.
Remember, the police are responding to an active shooter. What would a shooter likely do? Hide from police and then run from them when he saw them approach him.
Which is exactly what Bennett did.
Why is Bennett crouching like that and then running to hide behind a slot machine? And when the officers take note of his strange behavior and approach him why does he leap up and take off at a full sprint and refuse to listen to officer commands to stop?
Bennett’s defense would likely be that was just scared — and that’s certainly not unreasonable when everyone believed there was an active shooter — but isn’t it also totally reasonable that officers would notice Bennett and believe he may have been involved in the shooting based on his behavior?
Indeed, the officer actually explains this to Michael Bennett and Bennett even says he understands how his behavior would have looked to the officers. They then take his cuffs off — the entire time in the police car was seven minutes according to Vegas police — and are prepared to let him go. This is, notably, all before the police have any idea Bennett’s a famous football player. That is, contrary to Bennett’s allegations of racism, the police are treating him with respect and consideration long before they know who he is.
They explain exactly why they detained him, explain why they were suspicious of his behavior and then, and this is maybe the most amazing part of this entire story — THEY LET HIM GO AFTER HE IDENTIFIES HIMSELF AS AN NFL PLAYER EVEN THOUGH HE HAS NO ID ON HIM.
“No, man, my name is Michael Bennett, Seattle Seahawks, look it up,” Bennett says when asked for ID.
He told the cops to look him up on their phones!
And the cops looked him up on Google images and let him go based on that ID.
Talk about privilege!
This dude is out in Las Vegas without an ID — how is that even possible? It’s not like he’s a girl in a cocktail dress and heels, he can’t carry a driver’s license with him in his jean pocket?! — and he gets released from police custody by telling the police — after running from them and refusing to listen to their commands — that he plays in the NFL and to look it up on their phones.
Racism?
Get out of here!
Michael Bennett is a huge beneficiary of NFL athlete privilege.
How many people do you think get let go by police when they don’t have ID and have been stopped for suspicious behavior after having them look him up on Google?
Here’s the kicker — Bennett then shook hands with police and told them he understood exactly what they had done!
He shook hands with them!
Two weeks later he lies and calls these same cops all racists in a story that immediately goes viral.
2. Race played no part in this story at all.
Bennett alleged that racist police stopped him because he was black.
That’s a flat out lie.
The entire casino is filled with black people.
Watch this video of the officers initially responding to reports of a shooting in the casino.
It is laughably absurd to suggest that the police picked Bennett out because of racism. If so, why didn’t they also detain the hundreds of black people in the exact same casino at that exact same time? Bennett was detained for a simple reason, because he behaved suspiciously and police believed he might be involved in an alleged shooting.
Remember, these videos were recorded before the police knew Bennett was famous and before they knew he was going to accuse them of racism, the police story has been the same throughout the entire incident.
The race of the officers shouldn’t matter here, by the way, but they were all three minorities — two Hispanics and a black guy. Bennett’s claim is laughably absurd in this context as well. He is alleging that three minority police officers responded to reports of a casino shooting, ignored hundreds of black people leaving the casino, and then decided to detain him because he was black for no reason at all.
Seriously, that’s his story.
And the sports media bought it hook, line and sinker.
3. There is no excessive force used and no one threatened to blow Bennett’s head off.
There is zero evidence of that from the 193 different videos reviewed in this incident.
In fact, the Las Vegas police have offered to make all that video available to Bennett’s attorneys for them to review and guess what? Bennett’s attorneys haven’t responded to those offers.
Why?
Because they likely know Bennett is lying.
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