Badges - NFL Player Lashes Out Against Orlando Police
- From: Charles Rahn <c.t.rahn@xxxxxxxx>
- To: Badges 1Badge <badges@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 00:25:09 -0400
NFL Player Lashes Out Against Orlando Police
ORLANDO, Fla. -- An NFL player says police harassed him at his downtown Orlando
condo and he claims the incident was racially motivated. Orlando police say
they received an anonymous tip about drug activity on Tuesday night, so they
sent officers to the Solaire at the Plaza condo complex (see map), where
Tennessee Titans player Chris Johnson lives.Updated: 5:57 pm EDT May 5,
2011Johnson, a former Olympia High School football player, tweeted online and
was upset Orlando police showed up at his condo. He believes he was harassed
because of his race.Johnson was taping an MTV Cribs episode when two drug unit
officers showed up at his downtown condo on Tuesday."Y did the police just walk
in my condo saying they think it's drug activity because it's alot of traffic
but it was the MTV camera crew," Johnson wrote in a Tweet sent out May 3.The
department says it received an anonymous Crimeline tip; there was a lot of foot
traffic and several expensive cars were seen coming in and out of the
complex.The officers did not have a warrant, so they conducted what's called a
knock and talk. Johnson answered the door, the cops asked to come in, and he
gave them permission to look around.Orlando police says it follows up on all
tips.Johnson later tweeted this: "Hard being young, black, and rich.""It wasn't
racially motivated. We didn't know Mr. Johnson was going to be the person we
connected with," said Barb Jones, Orlando Police Department.According to
Crimeline, in the past 12 months the Orlando Police Department has received
1,492 tips and cleared 260 cases. The agency could not give a number of how
many tips were checked out, because some cases are still open.Civil rights
attorney Spencer Rhodes told WFTV he doesn't believe the police were at
fault."It's highly unlikely the police made a decision responding based on Mr.
Johnson's race," Rhodes said. "It's most likely to have been the tipster who
was suspicious."
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