Wal-Mart says it has no security footage from 2011 Dez Bryant incident report

If video exists from a 2011 incident report involving Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant, Wal-Mart will not be releasing it.

Daniel Kaplan of the Sports Business Journal spoke to Brian Nick, director of national media relations for Wal-Mart, and was told that because no charges were filed, the company wouldn't have had a reason to pull the security footage at the time and create a videotape of the incident. 

The incident, which NFL Network's Ian Rapoport learned of through an open-records request, took place in mid-2011 in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Lancaster, Texas. Officers were called to a disturbance on the early morning of July 11 after a person reported seeing a woman being dragged from one vehicle to another, according to the incident report.

Vehicles registered to Bryant were in the parking lot and Bryant later arrived in another car with the alleged victim, who told officers that she was involved in an argument with another man and was not assaulted or injured in any way. 

Officers determined that no crime had occurred and did not request footage from Wal-Mart's security system, Nick told Kaplan, adding that it would be too late to do so now because the company's security protocol eliminates footage after a certain period of time.

As Kaplan notes, this doesn't preclude the existence of a videotape, just that Wal-Mart is not, nor has ever been, in possession of it.