Consider this the likely preemptive move that results in a civil suit and cash payout. Claiming that he’s angry at the NFL for not punishing Ezekiel Elliott, the EDC security guard with which the Dallas Cowboys running back got into an altercation with in May is asking the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police to conduct an investigation into the incident.
Elliott was cuffed at the scene, but not charged with a crime. He’s since publicly apologized and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell decided no further punishment was warranted.
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That’s not enough for Kyle Johnson, the security guard in question.
“Just very unsympathetic,” Johnson said as he described the apology. “Like, ‘I have to do this. I’m being forced to do this. I don’t want to be here right now, kind of thing.'”
Johnson has his own version of events as to what transpired with Elliott, once the RB became agitated at being held out of a restricted area.
“I put my hands up and said, ‘hey Zeke, you’re a big man, you’re in the NFL,’’ Johnson said. “That’s all I said to him before he came up to me, bumped me and then shoved me over a metal railing.”
At the time, Johnson said all he wanted was an apology from the star running back. He got it, but didn’t like it.
“To not have anything happen to him,” Johnson said. “The NFL is basically saying it’s okay to go to Vegas, get obliterated and shove people over fences.”
I thought that was the Vegas’ motto; “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.”
Elliott is in a contract year with the Cowboys. Last year he led the league with 1,434 rushing yards to go with six touchdowns. He caught 77 passes for 567 yards and three touchdowns and made the Pro Bowl for the second time in three seasons.
