NFL Star Sidelined After Arrest for Domestic Assault
- Posted on October 22, 2011 at 6:20pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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(AP) Minnesota Vikings cornerback Chris Cook was arrested early Saturday on domestic battery charges, and the team said Cook, who has started the past three games, will not play this weekend against the Green Bay Packers.
Cook, 24, was arrested without incident after someone called 911 around 2 a.m. to report hearing people across the street yelling and screaming, Eden Prairie police spokeswoman Katie Beal said.
The second-year pro was booked on two charges, including one count of domestic assault, and was being held without bail Saturday at Hennepin County jail, according to online records. Prosecutors have 48 hours in which to charge Cook, who has a court hearing scheduled for Monday morning.
Bob Hagan, the Vikings’ spokesman, said Cook has been ruled out of Sunday’s game against unbeaten Green Bay. Earlier, the team issued a statement saying it didn’t plan to comment about the arrest until it could learn more about what happened.
“We take this matter very seriously and are still gathering all the details of the incident,” the Vikings said.
Earlier this year, Cook was accused of pulling a gun on a neighbor in his home state of Virginia. A judge found him not guilty of a misdemeanor count of brandishing a firearm, saying there was insufficient evidence to convict him.
Vikings coach Leslie Frazier had a talk with Cook in the offseason to reiterate the importance of staying out of trouble off the field, and the second-year player emerged as perhaps the most reliable cornerback on the field during the team’s 1-5 start. At 6-foot-2, he has the size to match up with taller receivers and the speed to keep up with smaller ones.
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Comments (72)
cobra two
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 10:17pmTypical NFL ROLE MODEL. Hell Yeah! Give him BONUS.
Report Post »Inbred Jed
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 10:36amYeah like send him home for the rest of the season without pay.
Report Post »MaxineH20Sux
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 10:04pmIs it me or are these sports really becoming a joke? I no longer watch NBA or NFL. With the way these baseball players dress I am starting to not watch that either! Long pnats That go under their cleats and dregs in their hair half down their backs. Whatever happened to baseball socks?? The only sport I watch is Hockey! That sport has not been ruined…. Yet
Report Post »skippy6
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 9:33amThe NHL holds their players to higher standard, I hope thy hold to that philosophy or it may become the same as the NBA and NFL!!!
Report Post »ladyda
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 10:00pmSigh….you can take the guy out of the hood, but it looks like you can’t take the hood out of the guy!
Report Post »sweetgold
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 2:07pmI like the name LADYDA. Icouldn’t get it, now I know why. Good going.
Report Post »bankerpapaw
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 9:37pmSo much for being a role model for our youth. The NFL and the NBA are full of these sorry punks.
Report Post »I wouldn’t bother me one bit if both of these organizations were disbanded.
Talmid of Yeshua
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 9:22pmNational Felon League, that is what the NFL stands for.
For the past 15 years, the NFL has been nothing but a bunch of gang-bangin’ thugs. Football players have been involved, in recent years, in murder, manslaughter while under the influence, murder for hire, rape, drug dealing, dog fighting, etc.
I stopped watching football years ago.
Report Post »wewantchillywilly
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 9:13pmhow can the coaches not spot these punks?
i saw him in a game last year, and he was clearly a punk on the sidelines. the coaches were yelling at him for screwing up another play, and he’s yelling at the coaches. then he starts walking away, and then yelling at them more. he was cussing like a drunken sailor. and he was a rookie last year.
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 9:13pmHe should be banned for life from playing in the NFL if he’s convicted. This type of behavior shouldn’t be acceptable in the NFL.
Report Post »wewantchillywilly
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 9:04pmChris Cook is NOT, I repeat, NOT a star.
Report Post »FstEti
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 2:00pmThat’s a part of the problem; he THINKS he is.
Report Post »Slayer
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 9:00pmAnother highly-paid dumb-as-bricks one of these sportstar thugs on drugs arrested for beating a woman? Say it isn’t so! Ultimately, he’ll be back because America worships its sports stars.
Report Post »PATRIOTGRUNT
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 11:18pm@SLAYER .Agree. But you missed a critical point , he is 6-foot-2 and he has the size to match up with taller receivers and the speed to keep up with the smaler ones. NFL needs him. He will apologize.Its not life he fought DOGS. Now that will get you thrown out of the NFL . Yep for sure.
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 8:55pmAnother one bites the dust…..good riddance to another overpaid adult adolesent.
Report Post »herekittykitty
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 8:48pmVikings su ck this year. But I would prefer they stay in MN. Please get rid of the Timberwolves – has there ever been a bigger joke of a “professional” sports team? Overpaid hoodlums who lose, lose. lose. As for Cook, give him the boot.
Report Post »roostercogburn
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 8:37pmI guess I would have to agree, the woman got EXACTLY what she wanted, she wanted a thug and got beat up, how much tax money will be wasted on this.
Report Post »skippy6
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 8:25pmOh my, who would have guessed it was a Minnesota Viking!!! Me, that’s who!! that’s what went through my mind when I saw the story… This team has been a joke after Bud Grant retired…And all they do is cry about getting a new stadium in this overtaxed state…professional sports has become full of of a bunch of overpaid egotistical Obama type personalities, Goodbye Vikings you can go to L.A. or better yet, San Fransisco where you belong!!!! Take Lil unfunny Al Frankin and Mark hide under your desk Dayton with you also….Bye Bye!!!
Report Post »mzee26
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 8:13pmAlthough I don‘t think it’s a huge deal that Palamalo (or however you spell it) called his wife from the sidelines to tell his wife he was okay, I can still see the point of them telling him not to do it and even a fine if he broke the rules which he apparently did. If you let that incident go, we’ll have to start watching all the football players on the sidelines on their phones all the time. Who wants to see that? I don’t..I’ve got fantasy football players on my team that I want having their minds on the game, not the flavor of the week or whomever they would be on the phone with. Just sayin’…. ;)
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 8:19pmyou don’t have to watch anything…sports obsession is a serious mental illness..
Report Post »oriondma05
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 9:05pm@Jungle – That’s a fairly ignorant comment. My family is very close and most of it is based on our appreciation of sports. Whether playing or watching. Sorry you were too uncoordinated to throw a ball any better than Obama while you were growing up, but maybe if your mom or dad played catch with you, you’d realize the importance of family bonding through competition and watching sports as a family. Tool.
Report Post »Taxpayer550
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 7:54pmA fatherless and violent culture will ultimately destroy itself.
Report Post »dadsrootbeer
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 7:24pmCan’t take the g h e t t o out of the ,….
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 9:10pmlawdhamercy
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 10:45pmI heard he and Mikey Vick were going to start a partnership, I just can’t think of the name for the start-up.
Report Post »gbo
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 3:01pmCan’t take the h a d e s out of the haters, where ever they live, or where ever they post.
Report Post »HawkEyeTx
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 7:19pm#
Report Post »Oops, Pulling a gun will do it in spades every time.
Stewie
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 7:06pmWho wants to bet that his bail will be less than the $10,000 fine Polamalu got for trying to ease his wife’s fears over the phone?
Report Post »okbroomrider
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 3:05pmAmen!
Report Post »UrbanCombatSurvivor
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 7:03pm@Dusty
Report Post »I’m sorry, but I have to say that any woman who dates anything like this article’s subject is reaping the benefits of her own choices. We all learned about these animals by high school at the latest, she was choosing who she was with, and deserves the consequences no less than if she had chosen a good, decent man to spend her time with.
Larry Sheldon
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 6:51pmWas he arrested for “yelling and screaming”? Really?
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 9:12pmHe was arrested because the jobs bill didn’t pass.
Report Post »oriondma05
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 6:40pmSo can we blame this one on Joe Biden like they blamed the shootings in Arizona on Palin?
Report Post »OlefromMN
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 6:45pmNo, blame it on our dysfunctional MN Vikings.
And they want me to pay for a new stadium?
Report Post »oriondma05
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 9:10pmCan’t be any worse than the Bengals. They had like 20 arrests in one season a few years back. That‘s a record that won’t soon be broken.
Report Post »Realman30
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 6:36pmMy post had a diffferent theme to it before I read he had a prior arrest for pulling a gun on a neighbor.
The guy is a thug. He should be kicked off the team.
Report Post »NotPoliticallyCorrect
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 6:56pmSend him over to the NBA with all the rest of the gangstahhs.
Report Post »booger71
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 7:15pmNFL has plenty gansta wanna- be’s too
Report Post »motonutt
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 7:52pm@REALMAN30….. And just how is it you know that pulling a gun in a dispute with his neighbor was not justified? Possible his neighbor came at him with some type of a weapon first? The judge did drop the charges. Just because he‘s black does not mean he’s a thug. I think we need to get the facts before making such accusations.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 6:35pmYou dont care about domestic violence? Then you are one of the problems with society. I bet you would care if it was your daughter, wouldn’t you?
Report Post »texanpatriot
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 6:30pmI am taking bets here: three years in jail = 50 to 1; a slap on the wrist = even money…
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 6:36pmAgreed.
Report Post »JPRAustin
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 9:14pmYou’re both racists…..(add me to the list.)
Report Post »barber2
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 6:25pmGee, it’s so unusual for an athlete to be accused of domestic violence…..
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 6:31pmYes .. who’s have guessed ???
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on October 22, 2011 at 8:50pmi thought athletes were magic super heroes we all are supposed to look up to now come to find out they are mostly just human? human excrement at that? geez who would have known tackling and throwing/catching a ball didn’t automatically build character
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