Dez Bryant Breaks His Silence After Police Allegedly Aim Tactical Rifle At Him In Front Of His Daughters
This article was originally published on Total Pro Sports.
Former Cowboy star Dez Bryant is going viral for all the wrong reasons this week. Footage shows him being involved in a scary incident over the weekend that allegedly ended with him being held at gunpoint by police officers.
What made the situation even worse was that his daughters were right there watching it all happen.
The entire incident began with a road incident and a confrontation with another driver.
Former Cowboys Star Dez Bryant Details Gun Incident With Cops
Dez Bryant has broken his silence after being held at gunpoint and arrested over the weekend. According to him, it started when two men whom he accused of reckless driving. Consequently, the men would all end up in the same parking lot, and an argument would ensue.
In that parking lot, Bryant revealed he knocked a phone from one man’s hand during their argument. Bryant further added that he was threatened by one of the men.
“He go to threatening me and basically saying, um, he’ll insinuate that he’ll, you know, he’ll shoot me or whatever,” Bryant said.
Bryant then responded with a warning.
“You pull that gun, I’m telling you right now, you better use it because if you don’t, I’m going to do something to you,” he recalled. Despite being threatened, he stated nobody pulled out a weapon until police showed up.
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Bryant said, “No, he didn’t pull a gun out on me.” The man allegedly pulled out his phone and recorded him instead.
“I told him, you know, get the phone off me,” Bryant said. “So what I ended up doing is I knocked the phone out of his hand.”
According to Bryant, the man then said he would call the police, which is something he encouraged because he believed officers would investigate the alleged threat.
Despite his actions, he doesn’t like how the police handled the situation. A responding officer drew his gun and ordered them to the ground.
“I was really more so concerned about my children, you know, looking at their dad, you know, being on the ground with a gun pointed at me,” Bryant said.
He said his girlfriend arrived with his two daughters and began recording what happened.
According to Bryant, officers handcuffed the men, questioned them, and then released them with a citation. As for the other men, they were allowed to leave.
