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Originally posted by gianmarco:
Probably got about 3 yds then ran into the backs of some innocent bystanders and blamed it on them.

rofl

Though 3 yards is generous.

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ravage

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Originally posted by gianmarco:
Probably got about 3 yds then ran into the backs of some innocent bystanders and blamed it on them.

rofl

Though 3 yards is generous.

Three yards may be generous but you have to remember in this case no one was playing defense so he may be able to make it 3 yards.

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Three yards may be generous but you have to remember in this case no one was playing defense so he may be able to make it 3 yards.

Good point. Thanks for the clarification.

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Benson takes a unique stand...The cops are harrassing him.
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BENSON SOUNDS OFF
Posted by Mike Florio on May 5, 2008, 7:05 a.m.
Bears running back Cedric Benson isn’t taking his recent arrest for boating under the influence quietly.

Benson has told multiple media outlets that he was fine, and that he generally didn’t do anything wrong.

“I was not intoxicated,” Benson said, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. “There was alcohol on the boat, and others were enjoying themselves, but I wasn’t drunk.”

But Benson, per police, failed a sobriety test designed for boaters, and then refused to go ashore for more testing. He also refused to put on a life jacket.

After Benson was pepper sprayed and his boat docked, Benson refused to leave it. “They kicked my feet out from under me and slammed my face down,” he said. “They had a hose and were running it over my face. They were choking me and stuff, not with their hands but with the hose in my face. I couldn’t breathe. I don’t know if they did that because of the pepper spray, but I didn’t ask them to put the hose in my face.”

Benson also told NBC 5 that he believes he is, and has been, a target: “I get pulled over every time I take my boat out,” Benson said. “It’s Austin, Texas. They know me.”

Bears coach Lovie Smith said that he is “[v]ery disappointed” by the arrest. “You try to wait and get as much information before you make a lot of comments about it, and that’s what I am going to do,” Smith said. “We’re always disappointed when we have someone that we’re talking about being in trouble with the law.”

The question is whether the Bears will take meaningful action against Benson based on any information they obtain. Though they didn’t hesitate to cut defensive tackle Tank Johnson, that move came after Johnson was arrested after he was presumably placed on a last-chance plan following his incarceration for probation violation.

From a football standpoint, the Bears can keep Benson at a reasonable rate for the next two years. He’s due to earn $820,000 and $1.02 million, respectively, in 2008 and 2009, the final seasons of his rookie contract.

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Looking good, Cedric

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On a tangent, you would think that a professional football player could afford a boat bigger than 30 ft long...

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On a tangent, you would think that a professional football player could afford a boat bigger than 30 ft long...

But at 3 yards at a time, just how long would it take him to get from one end to the other?

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On a tangent, you would think that a professional football player could afford a boat bigger than 30 ft long...

But at 3 yards at a time, just how long would it take him to get from one end to the other?

Probably about 3 1/2 quarters.

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My guess is the policemen that busted him all own the 1.4 rookie picks in their drafts.

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My guess is the policemen that busted him all own the 1.4 rookie picks in their drafts.

I wonder if they are getting as many trade request emails as I am

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My guess is the policemen that busted him all own the 1.4 rookie picks in their drafts.

I wonder if they are getting as many trade request emails as I am

Only if Gian is in their league as well!

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Benson the victim?

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A female passenger on Cedric Benson's boat Saturday night in Austin, Texas, was concerned enough about his safety after police took him into custody to phone her parents and urge them to call 911, the Tribune has learned.

"I called my dad and told him, 'Call 911, my black friend is getting beaten up by police on Lake Travis,' " said Elizabeth Cartwright, 22, a friend of Benson's from the University of Texas. "It's more what I heard than what I saw. I have never heard or seen Cedric that scared."

Cartwright put in writing her version of the events on Lake Travis that resulted in Benson being charged with boating while intoxicated and resisting arrest.

She says she is willing to submit her document as evidence supporting his account. She said her fiance also took dozens of photographs that help corroborate her claims.

In a 45-minute phone interview, she explained that she chose to come forward because of concerns that Benson's reputation was being "tainted" by accounts of the incident.

Benson faces a May 19 court date on the misdemeanor charges but was informed Tuesday that his lawyer can represent him.

He was back Tuesday at Halas Hall for a two-hour visit and already has shared with friends, including Cartwright, his desire to file a lawsuit against Travis County authorities based on his treatment during the arrest.

"We're not asking to be treated better, but we don't want to be treated worse, either, because of who Cedric is," Benson's lawyer, Brian Carney, said Tuesday night.

Cartwright, an English major at the University of Texas who is to graduate later this month, estimated she and her fiance had been boating with Benson six times this spring and each time a Lower Colorado River Authority boat pulled them over for a safety check.

There were about 15 people on the boat, including Benson's mother, Jackie, who had spent much of the evening swimming in a part of the lake known as Devil's Cove. Just when the group had decided to head back to shore around 9:30 p.m. and go out to dinner, a patrol boat stopped to conduct a random check.

According to Cartwright, she had consumed one beer and Benson had two drinks.

"I know Cedric and I don't think he was drunk," Cartwright said.

The arrival of LCRA police perturbed Benson because of the frequency of the checks on his 30-foot boat, Cartwright said.

When Benson's boat passed the safety inspection, Cartwright said she and her fiance were surprised the officer then required a sobriety test for Benson.

"We were all like, 'Why?' " she said.

After an officer led Benson to the LCRA boat for the test, the second officer left behind on Benson's boat assured a nervous Jackie Benson that her son would be fine, Cartwright recalled.

A few minutes later, Cartwright said she heard Benson begin to scream after the officer pepper-sprayed him in the eye. By the time Benson was in handcuffs, he was screaming, "Please stop, Mom, make them please stop."

Cartwright disputed that Benson was resisting arrest.

Panicked, Cartwright called her father, Jeff, to give him a description of the physical way she saw her friend being treated and told him to call 911.

Unaware the friend in question was Benson, Jeff Cartwright called 911 and told the dispatcher that police "were beating up a black kid on Lake Travis."

A Travis County spokesman wouldn't confirm or deny Tuesday night that a 911 call had been placed regarding the incident. An affidavit the LCRA filed described Benson as cocky, smelling strongly of alcohol and needing to be removed forcibly from the boat and eventually falling to the ground.

Benson claimed police kicked his feet out from under him, causing him to fall awkwardly. When Benson got up, Cartwright remembers him sitting in a squad car surrounded by six officers.

"In the weakest voice, Cedric said to me and my fiance, 'Help me get out of here,' " Cartwright said. "He was so scared."

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That's a really strange article.

Does anyone really say this to their parents:

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"I called my dad and told him, 'Call 911, my black friend is getting beaten up by police on Lake Travis,' "

Also, why didn't she just call 911? She's already on the phone. This sounds strange as well:

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he was screaming, "Please stop, Mom, make them please stop."

Mom, make them please stop? That comes nowhere near the image I have of Benson. And then this:

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"In the weakest voice, Cedric said to me and my fiance, 'Help me get out of here,' " Cartwright said. "He was so scared."

Another image that doesn't mesh with the one I have of Benson.

Now this sounds more like it:

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An affidavit the LCRA filed described Benson as cocky,

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There are some questions I have on both sides. The one thing that is already come out, however, is that the police department there has leaned on the side of force a bit prematurely. The fact that the cop came out and said he was a big muscular guy and he was not cooperating so I peppered sprayed him probably tells you he was itching to use it on him rather than taking the chance of getting his but kicked.

To be honest, I may have done the same thing in that situation, but I am betting the pepper spray was probably not needed. Having experience with pepper spray in the face

I can tell you his mug shot picture looked about right.

I am just going to guess here that the real story is somewhere in the middle of the two sides. Problem is, the police are going to take a beating over this as Benson has the money and lawyers to bury them.

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I agree there are some strange thing here but it's starting to look bad for the police.

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Why would the lake police in Austin Texas be out to get Benson?

I can see the Chicago PD trying to give him a shove out the door, but not the Austin PD. All that does is make the tumor break free and at risk to take root in Dallas.

I too find it funny that the girl in the boat calls her dad to call 911. Maybe her keypad doesn't have those numbers on it.

I love it when toughguys start crying for their mama. Give him the rock, he's obviously got what it takes.

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New witness calls pepper spray 'ludicrous, no point for it'

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Another eyewitness has emerged to support Benson's claim that he was mistreated.

Toby Patch was at nearby Emerald Point Marina on Saturday night when he claims he saw police "manhandling" Benson after taking the running back off the boat and heading to a squad car. Patch was not one of the 15 people on the boat.

"As they were taking him up the dock, they stopped, he said, 'I am fine, I can continue walking,' and they put their legs behind his knees and knocked him over his knees and started hog-carrying him," Patch told KXAN-TV in Austin.

Near the parking area, Patch says the treatment of Benson worsened.

"They ended up--I don't know why--but laid him on his back, I heard him say, 'Please don't pepper spray me, please don't pepper spray me,'" Patch said. "It was uncalled for, it was ludicrous, no point for it."

Patch's version sounded similar to the account Benson friend Elizabeth Cartwright, who was on the boat, gave the Tribune on Tuesday night.

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All that does is make the tumor break free and at risk to take root in Dallas.

Are you trying to kill me?

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Why would the lake police in Austin Texas be out to get Benson?

He's a rich black in guy Texas is why.

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