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Payback time. Police officers sue Bills RB LeSean McCoy over bar fight.
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Sep 23, 2016, 8:04:14 PM9/23/16
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PHILADELPHIA -- Two off-duty Philadelphia police officers
injured in a February bar fight involving Buffalo Bills running
back LeSean McCoy filed a lawsuit Tuesday morning against the
former NFL rushing leader in the Philadelphia Court of Common
Pleas.
The civil lawsuit marks the latest step in a legal battle that
had previously gone all the way to the Pennsylvania Attorney
General's office but had failed to result in any criminal
charges against McCoy or anyone else.
"Our investigation has confirmed that [officers] Darnell Jessie
and Roland Butler were viciously attacked and beaten by LeSean
McCoy and the additional defendants. As a result of the violent
assault, both men have suffered serious and permanent injuries,"
said Fortunato N. Perri Jr., the attorney for the police
officers involved in the fight.
McCoy's attorney, Dennis Cogan, was not available Tuesday
morning when contacted for a comment.
The lawsuit, obtained by Outside the Lines, names McCoy and
three other members of his party: Curtis Brinkley, Tamarcus
Porter and Christopher Henderson, all of whom were inside the
Recess Lounge, a Philadelphia after-hours club, on Feb. 7.
The Recess Lounge also is named as a defendant. Officers Jessie
and Butler allege the club was negligent in failing to provide
adequate security and for continuing to serve alcohol to McCoy,
Brinkley, Porter and Henderson, "who were already visibly
intoxicated."
In April, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams said
McCoy wouldn't be criminally charged in the incident, concluding
that he couldn't prove who initiated the fight. Williams said at
the time that it's legal to act in self-defense or the defense
of others.
The Pennsylvania Attorney General's office subsequently decided
to review Williams' decision not to charge McCoy, at the request
of the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police.
In a July letter to the FOP, Bruce Castor, then the solicitor
general of Pennsylvania in charge of the McCoy probe, wrote: "I
would have to not only disagree with the decision of DA
Williams, but would have to conclude that his decision was so
far off the mark as to be abusing the authority given him by the
voters of Philadelphia. Applying that standard, I cannot say
that I find DA Williams abused his discretion."
Cogan told ESPN in July that McCoy was only trying to break up a
fight between the officers and his friends, who had started
arguing over a $350 bottle of champagne.
"Frankly, McCoy did nothing wrong. He was put through hell for
no reason," Cogan said at the time.
Police also have said the fight broke out over a
misunderstanding about who had purchased the bottle of champagne.
McCoy, 28, is in his second season with the Bills after playing
six years with the Philadelphia Eagles.
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/17594571/police-officers-sue-
buffalo-bills-rb-lesean-mccoy-bar-fight
injured in a February bar fight involving Buffalo Bills running
back LeSean McCoy filed a lawsuit Tuesday morning against the
former NFL rushing leader in the Philadelphia Court of Common
Pleas.
The civil lawsuit marks the latest step in a legal battle that
had previously gone all the way to the Pennsylvania Attorney
General's office but had failed to result in any criminal
charges against McCoy or anyone else.
"Our investigation has confirmed that [officers] Darnell Jessie
and Roland Butler were viciously attacked and beaten by LeSean
McCoy and the additional defendants. As a result of the violent
assault, both men have suffered serious and permanent injuries,"
said Fortunato N. Perri Jr., the attorney for the police
officers involved in the fight.
McCoy's attorney, Dennis Cogan, was not available Tuesday
morning when contacted for a comment.
The lawsuit, obtained by Outside the Lines, names McCoy and
three other members of his party: Curtis Brinkley, Tamarcus
Porter and Christopher Henderson, all of whom were inside the
Recess Lounge, a Philadelphia after-hours club, on Feb. 7.
The Recess Lounge also is named as a defendant. Officers Jessie
and Butler allege the club was negligent in failing to provide
adequate security and for continuing to serve alcohol to McCoy,
Brinkley, Porter and Henderson, "who were already visibly
intoxicated."
In April, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams said
McCoy wouldn't be criminally charged in the incident, concluding
that he couldn't prove who initiated the fight. Williams said at
the time that it's legal to act in self-defense or the defense
of others.
The Pennsylvania Attorney General's office subsequently decided
to review Williams' decision not to charge McCoy, at the request
of the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police.
In a July letter to the FOP, Bruce Castor, then the solicitor
general of Pennsylvania in charge of the McCoy probe, wrote: "I
would have to not only disagree with the decision of DA
Williams, but would have to conclude that his decision was so
far off the mark as to be abusing the authority given him by the
voters of Philadelphia. Applying that standard, I cannot say
that I find DA Williams abused his discretion."
Cogan told ESPN in July that McCoy was only trying to break up a
fight between the officers and his friends, who had started
arguing over a $350 bottle of champagne.
"Frankly, McCoy did nothing wrong. He was put through hell for
no reason," Cogan said at the time.
Police also have said the fight broke out over a
misunderstanding about who had purchased the bottle of champagne.
McCoy, 28, is in his second season with the Bills after playing
six years with the Philadelphia Eagles.
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/17594571/police-officers-sue-
buffalo-bills-rb-lesean-mccoy-bar-fight
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