NFL.com Wire Reports
DALLAS (Sept. 28, 2006) -- The president of the Dallas Police Association demanded that Terrell Owens and his publicist apologize for statements disputing portions of a police report related to the star receiver's trip to a hospital emergency room.
"These officers, contrary to what Mr. T.O. Owens and his publicist Miss Etheredge alluded to or insinuated or whatever, those officers out there did the job they were supposed to do and did a good job of it," said Senior Cpl. Glenn White, who leads the largest police employee group in the Dallas department with more than 3,500 active and retired members. "We police officers don't go out to these calls and make stuff up."
Owens spent Tuesday night in the hospital after what he later called a big misunderstanding, saying he became groggy after mixing painkillers with supplements. The police report, later redacted in part, referenced an attempted suicide.
Owens' publicist who made the 911 call, Kim Etheredge, said that entries in the police report were inaccurate. She said she did not say he was depressed and "did not take anything out of his mouth," as the report said.
Owens said he could not remember what he said to officers.
Etheredge couldn't be reached because her phone mailbox was full, and she didn't immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment.
Dallas police officials have declined to comment and calls to Police Chief David Kunkle's office weren't returned. On Sept. 27, police released a heavily-edited version of the police report but declined to discuss it further because of privacy concerns.
"It's a shame that the department doesn't stand up for the officers and say they did everything right," White said. "They haven't, and that's my biggest gripe now."
BSRanch Perspective:
I don't know about you all, but the more that I hear this case on any one of the news channels, and ESPN, or even the NFL Channel (via the Internet my cable company doesn't carry the NFL Channel anymore) I have to come to the conclusion that Terrell Owens and Miss Etheredge have been lying about what they have said. It has been the hurry up and change the story to the right one ever since this whole thing has happened. After all what story did they say when it first broke. That T.O. was taken to a hospital for a possible Overdose of pills. Miss Etheredge herself had been with T.O. all that evening and he probably took the pills to end his life because his wrist will not heal fast enough for him to be the greatest player once again on the team!
Now you have "Neon" Deon Sanders coming to T.O.'s aid in the reports that the Police Officer got some kind of enjoyment out of reporting the story to the press. Well, I have news for Mr. Sanders. I don't know the Police Officer, and I am sure that Mr. Sanders has never met the Police Officer either, so when he made his Press release maybe him being nervous he sounded as if he were a little bit joyful, it might have been that Officer being nervous talking to a national audience, that got him nervous and caused him to sound as if he was in a happy or joking mood when he was just a nervous. I know that would be, and I have had 18 years of Law Enforcement behind me, counting the 6 years of Level II, Level I Reserve time behind me.
So when Deon came onto the NFL Channel during his interview and placed the Officer Down that he didn't know at all, but he Explained it away in this fashioned. Who is the fan going to trust the one that he watches playing and being interviewed each week and learns his personality or those in the media that come on the television out of no where and say that Terrell has a problem with depression, I tell you if I was that fan I would trust that player that I know, and watch play for me every week! So he is saying that the evidence that the Police department collected and saw at the time of the incident, the original statements that were made by the Witnesses at the time of the incident, that are going to be the most truthful (by the way), or the guy that just got released from a hospital after being talked to and interviewed by a mental health professional, with whom more then likely didn't have his stomach pumped but he was probably given a medication called Ipecac, used to make you throw up! You are given this medication and a bucket or pale to throw up into, during your stay in a hospital, the down time is only approximately 10 to 12 hours! so he could very well have been treated for the pills overdose.
Now, I don't know if this happened to Terrell Owens, I can only state this from my years of being in Law Enforcement and seeing this kind of stuff happen to other people. I cannot say that this happened to Terrell for sure, but the symptoms are there that they might very well have!
I am siding with the Dallas Police Department and their original findings, and not the statements made later to try to clear up what the people see and hear about him in the public eye!! This is a guy that has taken down a Super Bowl team in one game, and helped them loose, he not only helped them loose, but he lead them to a loosing season the next year! It is not easy for one player to do that, but not only did he do that for one team but he was able to do that to two, San Francisco lost a good coach, because he didn't know how to handle such behavior as what Terrell is determined to deliver, such as this so called Attempt on his own life, it is just another way to get the Coach to try to give him what ever it was that he was arguing for that afternoon and it more then likely was playing time!!
Still, these are just my opinion and only my opinion, and are not based in anything that I have seen T.O. do or say, but the more that they have talked about it, and the more Football players from the past and present that they have Wheeled out in front of the camera to make their statements has given me this enlightenment to the fact that Mr. Owens really might have done this and now he is trying to play the Dallas PD as a fool, that I don't like! If anything He is the fool for mistaking his pills in the first place! Especially when he mistakenly Misplaced 35 of them in his mouth or stomach or the like.
Yes Miss Etheredge & T.O. Owens both owe the Dallas Police Department, and the Police Officer that personally handled the Case a Face to Face Apology
BSRanch
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