Vegas PD asks NFL to investigate Bennett's 'false allegations'
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The union for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has requested the NFL investigate what it calls "obvious false allegations" by Michael Bennett against two of its officers concerning an Aug. 26 incident.
In a letter sent to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Thursday and obtained by CBS' Vanessa Murphy, the police union also expressed disapproval of Bennett's anthem protest.
"While the NFL may condone Bennett's disrespect for our American flag, and everything it symbolizes, we hope the league will not ignore Bennett's false accusations against our police officers," wrote union president Steve Grammas.
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The union denied Bennett's notion that he was racially profiled by the officers after it sounded like shots were fired near his hotel, pointing to the Seattle Seahawks defensive end's "unusual and suspicious behavior."
The union says officers witnessed Bennett hiding behind a slot machine in a casino, which they'd been called to due to reports of an active shooter, before running out of the building and leaping over a 4-foot barrier wall.
"Our officers did not detain Bennett because he was 'a black man in the wrong place at the wrong time,'" wrote Grammas.
Bennett said Wednesday that the officers used excessive force and threatened to "blow (his) fucking head off" before ultimately releasing him.