SomersetHawk":1fmobib7 said:
dontbelikethat":1fmobib7 said:
Just before 2 a.m. on December 23, 2013, surveillance video shows a bartender telling a customer to leave, pointing at the door several times.
"When he was asked to leave, his belligerence and unruliness turned into violence," said attorney Darren Wolf, who represents Donald Payne, the owner of Chill.
The surveillance video clearly shows at least one punch was thrown. Wolf said it took four people to remove the customer, who they later discovered was Henry Melton, a defensive tackle for the Chicago Bears and a former Texas Longhorns player. Melton graduated from Grapevine High School.
"It took four men to do this because he's a big guy," Wolf said. "And in the process, my client — Mr. Payne — received a really really horrific bite from Mr. Melton. He bit him in the side, near the kidney, through the skin."
Wolf said Payne was treated at a hospital and sent home.
Melton was arrested.
Payne has now filed a lawsuit against Melton, seeing monetary relief "in a sum greater than $1 million," according to court documents. But Wolf said they would leave it to a jury to decide an exact monetary award.
The attorney said there were injuries beyond medical bills. "There's some psychological injury there," Wolf said. "The thought of another human being you don't know biting through your skin, piercing your skin... it's a pretty frightening experience. And it's dangerous."
According to the lawsuit, at the bar the night of the incident, Melton was telling restaurant workers that he "was a millionaire and the bartenders were nothing but poor white trash."
http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/Surveill ... 94261.html
This was posted in NFL forum. Don't like to judge a man before walking a mile in his shoes but this is worrying.
Alcohol is a hell of a drug. Stupid things happen when people get drunk, I'm sure some (most) of us can all attest to that. Luckily, this team has shown a penchant for understanding the human element. If this is just a bad, one time episode, ehh, it happens. If Henry Melton is constantly going out, getting hammered, and biting dudes and spouting at the mouth about being a millionaire... yeah, there's a probably a problem. However, the incident occurred when he was injured and that can have a serious effect on these dudes. Not making excuses or anything, just trying to understand what probably went down.
And personally, I want my DT's to be as nasty as possible. That's why I love Suh and am still holding out hope that one day, he too will be a Seahawk. Oh, and don't forget this...
January 2005 McDaniel assaulted fellow University of Tennessee student, Edward Goodrich, during a pick-up basketball game for which Goodrich received 4 broken bones and needed a metal plate inserted into his face to repair injuries. McDaniel, originally charged with aggravated assault, a felony, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and agreed to pay restitution to Goodrich for an undisclosed amount. Goodrich had filed an $800,000 lawsuit against McDaniel in Knox County Circuit Court.[2]
This is life. Crap happens. I would love signing Henry Melton, regardless of his legal problems. The dude's a beast, when healthy, and even if he were to get cut in Camp, that would just mean that Jordan Hill or Greg Scruggs or whoever stepped up big time. Either way, the Seahawks win, and that's what it's all about.
