Fred Kerley arrested in Miami

What law did he break?

He’s still got many felonies to go before he is viable as a presidential candidate!

California is kooky, the Masterson trial was a bit of kangaroo court. I don’t know how they do it in Florida. He should have been smarter, but it was clear he was never a real danger or threat to any officer safety.

No one is above the law, regardless of if you're an average person or an Olympian. In the eyes of the law, Kerley is nothing special.

The police were just doing their job. It's Kerley's fault for getting arrested. Kerley was acting pretty stupidly and was impulsive. You should never act aggressively to a police officer and should treat the police with respect. If you attack a police officer like Kerley did, you're asking for trouble. Playing "tough guy" against the police doesn't work.

Had he initially remained cordial and complied with the officers' requests to stay out of their active crime scene investigation, it wouldn't have escalated to him being tased, wrestled to the ground, and arrested. Kerley and his girlfriend should have just walked around the area to get back to his car, or as other posters mentioned, just take an Uber and get the car in the morning. Though, him being presumably drunk didn't help him stay calm.

I will say, however, that the officers should have respected the fact that Kerley is a professional athlete and avoid roughing him up too much.

On an unrelated note, I recall Tyreek Hill was also arrested a few months back.

Resisting arrest and assault of police officer

What was he being arrested for? Removing an officers hand from your chest is not assault either.

yt people really loving the taste of boot leather here

Except it's not a law you have to treat police with respect.

Wake up the courts are not going too see it that way.

Go interfere with an active crime scene act disrespectful to a police officer and when they tell you to leave pull the bs Kerley did. Your going to get the crap beat out of you which the judge will side with the police and your going to get arrested. He is an idiot I don't care how many Olympic medals he has he lost any respect I had for him. Too me based off of his actions he is a thug that can run fast. Police whether you like them or not have a terrible job one in which they risk loosing there lives everyday and Kerley just made a crime scene they were dealing with more difficult by interfering. He should have shut up and listen to there direction to go around.

He doesn’t really seem like the type. Hopefully his case lands with people that take the concepts of innocent until proven guilty and proof beyond a reasonable doubt seriously.

Ah yes, the classic case of being arrested for resisting arrest.

“The police were just doing their job. It's Kerley's fault for getting arrested. Kerley was acting pretty stupidly and was impulsive. You should never act aggressively to a police officer and should treat the police with respect. If you attack a police officer like Kerley did, you're asking for trouble. Playing "tough guy" against the police doesn't work.“

You are TOTALLY completely effing delusional. The officer pushed him for behind into the other officer, causing his hand to hit him in the face. You can clearly see he was sandwiched between them, and they pushed him into a conflict. They weren’t just doing their job. They exacerbated the conflict and caused it to happen so they could slam dunk him. It was a complete set up. THIS IS THE GAME THEY PLAY. I THINK HE DEMONSTRATED HIS STRENGTH AND THAT IT TOOK THAT MANY GUYS TO BRING DOWN AN OLYMPIAN! They were completely the perpetrators and aggressors in that situation and should be fired immediately!

Dummy. Just think how none of this would've happened if he followed the officers' simple instructions.

a skinny rich white guy like rojo doesn't get the same treatment from the cops

Well if Fred refused to obey instructions, what are the police supposed to do? “Ok Fred you can stay near a crime scene.” At some point people simply have to do what they’re told by lawful authorities.

Hi Newname

Police officer is not even in the top ten most dangerous jobs. Delivery driver is much more dangerous. Also, being disrespectful isn’t a crime. Even if Fred didn’t do things to stop the situation from escalating the police should have done that. They could have easily handled his concerns calmly and not started putting hands on him. The police were scared of him because he is a tall black man. They escalated the situation and were unnecessarily violent. You are a bootlicker and called Fred Kerly a “thug” for being as disrespectful to the cops as they were to him. You are a racist loser.

“The police were just doing their job. It's Kerley's fault for getting arrested. Kerley was acting pretty stupidly and was impulsive. You should never act aggressively to a police officer and should treat the police with respect. If you attack a police officer like Kerley did, you're asking for trouble. Playing "tough guy" against the police doesn't work.“

I have seem this tactic many times before - push the guy, grab the guy, shove the guy into a response, so then can then claim it was “ok to use force” on a supposed violent person resisting arrest. It’s a natural human triggered response to fight back and resist when attacked, and they’re counting on that response to allow them to slam dunk and kick, squeez and punch the person. The punching was the most egregious that I’ve seen in a long while - but totally part of their entrapment tactics!!! They totally bated him into a response by grabbing him and hitting his face and then shoving him from behind into the other officer, sandwiching him into a fight!!! This is completely unacceptable and absurd and everyone of those officers needs to be fired without pay immediately!!!