Of course Cedric Benson issued his side of the story on his ‘Boating While Intoxicated’ arrest to the Chicago print media Sunday night.
“I was not intoxicated,” Benson told the Chicago Sun-Times. “There was alcohol on the boat and others were enjoying themselves, but I wasn't drunk.”
Everyone says that who gets in trouble for alcohol-related offenses. Everyone.
“They gave me a field sobriety test, told me to say my ABCs and told me to count from 1 to 4 up and down,” Benson told the Chicago Tribune. “I'm thinking, I passed all the tests, did everything right. Then the officer told me we needed to go to land to take more tests. I politely asked him why we needed to go to land to take more tests when I took every test. Then he sprayed me with mace, on his boat.”
“I'm not handcuffed. I'm not under arrest. I'm not threatening him. I'm not pushing him. I'm not touching him. And he sprays me right in my eye.”
That sounds kinda iffy, to be honest. Benson is not known as an overt tough guy (just ask the Green Bay defense), he’s more the careless, aloof type.
Benson said in the year he has owned the boat, he has been questioned by lake police six times, according to the Tribune.
There it is! Ced Benson is claiming he wasn’t ‘inoxicated’ while piloting his boat around Lake Travis…so, he must be claiming that he was busted for ‘BWB’…Boating While Black.
Is that so hard to believe that some shitty Texas lake cop would take offense to a rich young black man at the helm of a giant blinged-out yacht? There were probably some nice looking ladies on deck…loud, blaring music…lots of alcohol…
“Once we got to land, the Travis County police grabbed me and kicked my feet from under me. So I landed on my back while I was handcuffed. They held me down and held the water hose over my face. I couldn't breathe, I'm choking, I'm begging the cops, 'Please stop. Please stop.' Then they picked me up and dragged me backward toward their car. And I'm still being polite, asking them, 'Sir, could you please allow me to walk like a man to your cop car?' They just kept dragging me on.”
Whoa. That sure as hell wasn’t initially reported. The cops held a water hose over his face??
